The significance of the symbols of Mirror and Portrait in teaching Symbolism

Abstract

The article analyses the issue of using symbols of Mirror and Portrait in teaching Symbolism. The ideological-aesthetic unity and peculiarities of the symbol of Mirror present in O.Mukhtor’s “The Man at the Mirror”, symbol of Portrait in O.Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” where the main message is greed where the devil’s play that would ruin a man’s moral character and finally his whole life are investigated in the article.