This week we looked at Oscar Wild's 1893 play Salomé which was illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley in the English edition. This text was definitely the most challenging text to analyze especially when it came to its illustrations as Beardsley strangely and most definitely deliberately avoided merely reflecting Wild's text. initially I had a hard time understanding the relationship between text and image due to the illustration's ambiguity's especially when I compared it to Sherlock Holmes and how easily it was to understand the relationship between text and image. However, after the presentations today, I started to appreciate Beardsley's illustrations more as I believe it completed Wilde’s work. Since Wild himself did not include any sexual description in his play, considering the censorship laws that would have prevented the play from performing any sexual scenes, Beardsley's work calls out such censorship laws with its clear sexual portrayal of the characters. While this can be interpreted as subverting the text, I think it also helps complete Wilde's play in demonstrating both female and male sexuality. However, Beardsley of course decided to focus more on the female body, and the female sexuality which is what I half expected considering the male gaze that dominates this entire play.