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    <title>The Picture of Dorian Gray Group at eNotes</title>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Picture of Dorian Gray is a kind of morality tale, in that Basil...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Picture of Dorian Gray is a kind of morality tale, in that Basil represents God the Creator of Art.  Dorian, or his portrait at least, represents Adam.  Lord Henry represents Satan, he who appeals to Dorian's vanity and corrupts the lad.
It is also a re-telling of the Faust legend.  In this light, Dorian sells his soul to the Devil (Lord Henry) as he falls from innocence into vanity and corruption.
Basil is the moral figure in the novel...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:54:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Discuss of the characture of Basil Hallward symbolizes both art and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Discuss of the characture of Basil Hallward symbolizes both art and morality. How is he an artistic figure and how is he a moral figure in the novel?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:17:01 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In addition to the above, Mrs. Vane's biggest agony--and secret--is that...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In addition to the above, Mrs. Vane's biggest agony--and secret--is that she was not married to Sybil's and James's father. This is why they live in poverty--he left without leaving them and provision. Also, she fears the ostracism and rejection that unwed mothers and their children suffered in their society.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:06:28 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Chapter six of The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dorian takes Basil and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Chapter six of The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dorian takes Basil and Lord Henry with him to the small theatre to see his betrothed Sybil act in the play Romeo and Juliet. Dorian was attracted to Sybil because of how her acting could bring words--and art--to life. He thinks it one of her best qualities.
At the theatre this night, Sybil's acting is terrible. Basil and Lord Henry can't endure anymore and walk out of the theater, leaving Dorian...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:00:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In The Picture of Dorian Gray, when Lord Henry and Basil accompany...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In The Picture of Dorian Gray, when Lord Henry and Basil accompany Dorian to the theatre to see Sybil, what happens to make Dorian angry?
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        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:05:28 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Lord Henry in The Picture of Dorian Gray finds the exercise of influence...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Lord Henry in The Picture of Dorian Gray finds the exercise of influence to be enthralling. This is not the beneficent influence of a friend interested in grooming your welfare or even the benign influence that sways your choice of hamburger over steak; it is the manipulative influence that intentionally alters and molds another human being into a shape not their own.
Lord Henry waxes lyrical about the joy of exercising influence on an...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:28:38 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What exercise does Lord Henry find "terribly enthralling" in Chapter 3...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What exercise does Lord Henry find "terribly enthralling" in Chapter 3 of The Picture of Dorian Gray?
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        <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:39:59 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How are wotton and hallward different?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/dorian-gray/q-and-a/how-wotton-hallward-different-109137</link>
        <description><![CDATA[How are wotton and hallward different?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:07:32 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Dorian Grey is most certainly an anti hero.  Dictionary.com defines an...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Dorian Grey is most certainly an anti hero.  Dictionary.com defines an anti hero as "a protagonist who lacks the attributes that make a heroic figure, as nobility of mind and spirit, a life or attitude marked by action or purpose, and the like."
Dorian is most certainly an antihero by these standards.  He is not noble because he finds that he can act in a manner that society does not respect and that his portrait will bear the physical...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 1 Oct 2009 18:16:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Is Dorian Gray an antihero?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Is Dorian Gray an antihero?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:00:34 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[To take an extreme position: nothing.
But that is the extreme...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[To take an extreme position: nothing.
But that is the extreme position of those who believe in art for art's sake. Rationally, however, one of the purpose of literature is its usefulness in real life (the Renaissance used to talk about "dulce" [the sweetness] of literature, and "utile" [its usefulness]. Thus, "Dorian Gray" must teach us something about life.
Most of the criticism and opinions I have read about this work bring up its social...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:00:18 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Now, more than ever, is Oscar Wilde's novel, "The Picture of Dorian...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Now, more than ever, is Oscar Wilde's novel, "The Picture of Dorian Gray," relevant.  For, the concern about the external appearance of people, the youth-culture of the United States, is increasing and giving validity to the statement of a character in a Dean Koontz novel who declares, "Perception is reality."  In a sense, Lord Henry Wotten's aesthetic ideal of living life as though one were viewing art as "the senses cure the soul" is...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:59:23 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does "The Picture of Dorian Gray" have to say about life?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What does "The Picture of Dorian Gray" have to say about life?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:27:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What 2 dominating forces control Dorian's mind and how do these forces...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What 2 dominating forces control Dorian's mind and how do these forces illuminate the meaning of the novel as a whole.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 5 Sep 2009 10:16:51 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[He says they are all gifted with something, wealth, brains, good looks,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[He says they are all gifted with something, wealth, brains, good looks, but that eventually they will suffer because of those things.
"Your rank and wealth, Harry; my brains, such as they are -- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks -- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly."]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:28:32 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What prediction does Basil Hallward make about the three of them?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What prediction does Basil Hallward make about the three of them?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:25:51 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[When Basil first creates the portrait of Dorian Gray, he captures the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When Basil first creates the portrait of Dorian Gray, he captures the handsome young man in all his youthful beauty.  When Dorian sees the picture, he is completely impressed by his own beauty, and feels sad that as he grows old, his good looks will be spoiled.  He says that he would give anything, including his soul, if he might retain his physical beauty, and have the picture grow old in his stead.
A short time later, Dorian falls in love...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 3 Aug 2009 19:32:10 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are the changes that occur in the portait over time in The Picture...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are the changes that occur in the portait over time in The Picture of Dorian Gray? ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 3 Aug 2009 16:11:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Grammardog Guide to The Picture of Dorian Gray]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[This was the time when, after 18 years of following his tracks, James...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This was the time when, after 18 years of following his tracks, James finally came face to face with Dorian at an Opium Den. He tried to kill him, but then he was shocked to see that this could have not been the same man who drove his sister to suicide because, well, he has not aged in 18 years. That is basically the first time they meet until James meets his demise later on in the story.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 4 May 2009 17:50:13 PST</pubDate>
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