Salome Phenomenon

     Oscar Wilde wrote Salomé while frequenting the symbolist circles of late nineteenth-century in Paris.

Salome is a tragedy bases in the Biblical story of Salome, it basically tells the story about a woman named Salome, who requests the head of Jokanaan as a reward for dancing the dance of the seven veils. He portrays Salome as a beautiful lady who has a forbidden love and to get what she wants, she dances to Herod, and her obsession leads to her death.

I liked this story because it’s quite different from other things I’ve read. I believe it’s a story that really captures your attention due to the “weird” or different things that happen in it, for example, I found it pretty different that Salome had the courage to ask Jokanaan if she could kiss him, though she got rejected. Also, the fact that the reward that she wanted, above all, was the head of the man she wanted, and that implied him being dead.

I also found some of the play’s dialogues quite good, for instance:

"Only in mirrors should one look, for mirrors do but show us masks."

 After Reading this play, it is understandable why it was such a phenomenon, it gives you a lot of material to think and share about, and it also gives you the opportunity to make your own analysis and depending on what you’re interested in, do something to show what impacted you.