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The Picture of Dorian Gray
That is an interesting question. To answer this, you need to look at what Henry says, what he does, and what effects he has on others. If you go by his words, he rejects standard or common views of...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Throughout the novel, Dorian Gray's outlook on the world changes fairly drastically. At the beginning of the story, Dorian is young and easily influenced. He is beautiful, which makes him the...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Basil and Lord Henry have very different relationships with Dorian because they are contrasting characters. Basil's relationship is based on his obsession with...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde uses a number of literary techniques to develop his characters and to enhance some of the novel's key themes. Allusions, for example, are widely used in Chapter...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
In chapter seven of The Picture of Dorian Gray, Sybil delivers a poor performance on stage and later declares to Dorian that she will no longer act: I hate the stage. I might mimic a passion that...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Dorian and Victor are similar in one key aspect — they are brought to their demise by their respective choices. Dorian, on the one hand, is granted eternal youth in exchange for the aging of his...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
I absolutely agree with the statement that The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are explorations of the duality of human nature. Basil says that Dorian always...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
In Chapter Nine, Dorian's character has changed in two ways. Firstly, Dorian demonstrates a striking resemblance to Lord Henry. This is best shown in his comments to Basil about Sybil's death in...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde refers to a number of other texts and allegorical characters as he develops the novel's key themes and characters. In fact, this process starts as early as...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Dorian Gray is an exceptionally attractive young man who has been befriended by the painter Basil Hallward. At the beginning of the story, Basil is discussing Dorian, the subject of his most recent...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
In a sense, this is as much a question concerning definition of terms as concerning the novel. First, the basic distinction among the terms is: Moral: means acting in accordance with one's own...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
In The Picture of Dorian Gray, there are a number of settings which are significant because they reinforce the novel's key themes. Firstly, consider Basil's studio. This setting, with its "rich...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
In the first chapter of The Picture of Dorian Gray, Lord Henry makes the following contrast between Basil and Dorian: Basil...with your rugged, strong face and your coal-black hair, and this young...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
In answering this question, you should look to find examples of Gothic motifs in the text. Examples of Gothic motifs include a scary or frightening atmosphere and references to the supernatural. By...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde uses a number of literary devices to emphasize some of the book's key themes. First of all, Wilde uses a number of symbols to reinforce a key theme. The yellow...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Lord Henry is both a hypocrite and a catalyst in The Picture of Dorian Gray. Beginning with his hypocrisy, we see the first, and arguably most important, example of this in Chapter Two when Lord...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
By this quote Dorian Grey means that people have the capability to do great harm and the capability to do great goodness in the world. You mentioned the theme of wrestling with the conflict of...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
For writing a historical research thesis on A Picture of Dorian Gray, you may wish to consider some of the following topics: Aestheticism: This literary and artistic movement was at its height when...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
The relationship between Lord Henry and Dorian is pivotal to the plot, because the meeting between the two men in the studio of painter Basil Hallward is the initial action that begins the series...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
It is rather challenging to establish a correlation between a modern, 21st century show that deals with preconceived notions of refugees and immigrants in a post 9-11 world and a Victorian,...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
At the beginning of Chapter Six, the reader learns why Dorian Gray is so fascinated by his past and the years gone by: "And so the years passed. But time did not touch the face of Dorian Gray...He...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Chapter Two is arguably the most important chapter in The Picture of Dorian Gray for two reasons and, as such, provides a lot of opportunity for asking questions about the text. First of all, it is...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
The society and code of morality that Wilde depicts in The Picture of Dorian Gray is Anti-Victorian because it does not possess any elevated notion of the good life. The Victorian construction of...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
The concept of the artist and art as a theme is illustrated as a transmutation where the artist leaves a piece of his soul in his work. This is shown in the way that Basil insists that he had put...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Through the protagonist, Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde suggests that there is a cost to a life dedicated to narrow, superficial indulgence. Dorian Gray's desires represent the dangers in superficiality....
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Lord Henry Wotton in Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray is almost a parody of an aesthete, espousing a philosophy he terms "New Hedonism" with aristocratic panache. The term hedonism...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
This part of the novel is found in chapter 5. The purpose of Sybil Vane's character in the plot of The Picture of Dorian Gray is to represent that unspoiled innocence that Wilde often uses as a...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
The society of Oscar Wilde's narrative is one that supports the facade rather than the reality as each of the three characters of The Picture of Dorian Gray exhibits a certain illusion about...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
In order to understand the answer to this question fully, one must first be acquainted with the definition from the Victorian Era of the word "dandy." In this case (as you can tell by the use of...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
A satire of Victorian society, Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray ridicules the attention to social status that often precludes love. Rather curiously, Wilde's work was used against him as a...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
In The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, the unsuspecting Dorian Gray is lured by the detached, but highly influential Henry Wotton, who treats Dorian as nothing more than a real-life...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
The essence and physical state of human kind that is shown in Wilde's work speaks to a specific philosophical appropriation of human consciousness. This philosophical approach denies any...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Through Lord Henry Wotton, a main character in The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde displays a wit and penchant for masterful dialogue that are equalled by few. Wotton's hedonistic ideology and...
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Essay Lab
What a hard thing to link (Raimond Gaita's "Romulus, My Father" and Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray"). Wilde's text illustrates a man, Dorian Gray, who comes to understand the devastating...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
In The Picture of Dorian Gray there is an added tendency to correlate the East End of London, a place where anything goes, to people who completely detour from Wilde's idea of aesthetic. As the...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
In The Picture of Dorian Gray innocence is treated as an accidental state of mind. It is a primitive sense of being that is inherent to the less sophisticated, and more ignorant species. As Lord...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Part of the reason why Victorians reacted so negatively to The Picture of Dorian Gray upon its first publication in story form in Lippincott's magazine is precisely because the novel challenged the...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
The friendship of the three men begins with Basil. Hallward, a painter and presumably of lower social status than Lord Henry and Dorian, had already known Lord Henry Wooton through acquaintances in...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
The role of Lord Henry is absolutely pivotal to the story in 'The Picture Of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde. We can tell by the sheer overwhelming and mesmerising experience of a meeting that such an...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
The exchange that Dorian makes comes directly from the old legend of Faust, who gave his soul to the Devil in exchange for unlimited power whilst on earth. Dorian trades his soul for eternal youth...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Hetty Merton is the young girl that Dorian has a brief dalliance with at the end of the novel. More significantly, Hetty represents to Dorian the hope of redemption, that he can actually love, and...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
This event occurs at the end of Chapter 17, and is significant because Dorian Gray seems to be safe and in the clear. Even though he has committed murder, he has successfully blackmailed a former...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Arguably, the two most important minor characters are Sibyl Vane and her brother, James Vane. Sibyl, Dorian's first fated love, is of course a very tragic character who is dynamic in the way that...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
The three central characters in this novel--Dorian Gray, Basil Hallward and Lord Henry Wotton--each have their own specific role in this story, and the type of character that each one is links...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
An important theme, which is actually the theme that moves the plot forward, is negative influence. Lord Henry's main goal since he first laid eyes on Dorian Gray was to change Gray's life and to...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
The internal conflicts and external conflicts in The Picture of Dorian Gray are almost interconnected. The main conflict is moral negotiation, and this affects both the internal and external...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
As a character, Lord Henry Wotton is the pivotal agent that moves the plot forward by transforming Dorian Gray into a dynamic character that will change dramatically throughout the novel. As...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
An aristocrat and hedonist, Lord Henry Wotton is the middle-aged, rich, and powerful nephew of Lord Fermor, and he is also the friend of Dorian Gray's friend and painter, Basil Hallward. As a...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray embodies the aesthetic ideal as it was praised and preached by the 19th century Pre-Raphaelites, of which Wilde was a follower. The adjective "aesthetic", however, cannot...