Abstract
This essay examines how, as transgressive aesthetics, Wilde employed the sexual challenge in Salome to subvert the dichotomous notions of gender and sexuality in the Victorian fin de siecle. This essay argues that Wilde’s transgressive aesthetics in Salome becomes the main-source to encourage us to reinvent and utilize a modernized Salome in our time. In the second part of the essay, there will be a description of Salome and the attempt to make a correlation between Wilde and the New Woman in order to mark them as sexual libertines, while, in the third part of the essay, there will be an analysis of Salome to find out how Salome subverts the phallocentric sexual ideology. Although Wilde’s Salome was an unaccepted attempt to go against the rigidity of Victorian sexual discourse, his bold transgressive aesthetics eventually prefigured our own modern time, which is the core reason why modern critics and artists are still looking into Wilde’s Salome to bring out another modernistic story.
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