Oscar Wilde’s Salomé is a play that expresses his idea of modernity that is yet not expressed along the axis of virtues and vices or right and wrong. An analysis of the theme and characterization will expose the play’s modernism. It indicates that on one hand Wilde applauds the theme of "God is dead", asserting that all the human values are to be reassessed; on the other hand, he mourns that without God’s protect, the modern humankind will breed an ambivalent feeling of love and hatred toward God. In a sense, Salomé is a modernist drama that bears certain avant-gardeness and exposes the modern humankind’s disillusionment. The author of the present essay will discuss Wilde’s modernity in Salomé from the following three aspects through a textual analysis, namely, "Cistern and the Moon", "the Death of God" and "Dance in the Blood".