Keyword: «paradoxical thinking»

Paradox as a Way to Create a Speech Portrait of a Character (on the Example of the Image of Lord Henry from O. Wilde’s Novel ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’)

Author:

Uliya Kryglyakova

The article is devoted to evaluating the role of paradox and its realization mechanisms in Lord Henry’s speech within the context of central themes raised in ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’. The author analyzes the paradoxical judgments and aphorisms of one of the main characters, reflecting the novelist’s philo-sophical ideas of a social, cultural and ideological nature. The scientific paper claims that Wilde’s paradoxical thinking is revealed in the speech characteristics of the personage.

Keywords: speech characteristics, speech portrait, paradox, paradoxical thinking, lord henry