Perfection Is Merely an Idea February 4, 2007
Posted by Mayee in : Literature , trackback(An excerpt from my notebook)
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Would there ever be a time when noting else is to be possible? When death is defeated, when hunger is no more, what then? There would be nothing more for man to believe in, to hope for. We would all be living in a world where there are no more challenges, problems.. Utopia, some would call it.
I’ve always found something scary about the idea of Utopia, or perfection in general. Perfection is not something meant to last. It’s just an idea upon which all effort is strived/aimed to reach. It’s this bullseye that archers aim for. Utopia would be like bringing that bullseye right up to their faces with nothing for them to do but to prick the target with their arrow. Is an archer still an archer if he does not twang his bow? Is man still man if he does not strive to live to achieve perfection?
Perfection. The idea reminds me of Dorian Gray. Oscar Wilde had depicted the idea of immortal / perfect beauty as an evil in the end, I guess. In some way I gathered that perfection cannot exist in this world forever. Dorian Gray had no point in living on and on as he was haunted by the aging imperfection on his “magic” painting.
That novel wasn’t really anything near pleasant, but I very much enjoyed reading it and seeing Wilde’s depction of Dorian Gray and of Beauty.
“Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation…”
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