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The Picture of Dorian Gray
On one level, the picture symbolizes Dorian Gray's gradual moral decay. Initially, the picture presents him as a youthful, handsome man. But over time, as Dorian descends deeper and deeper into...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
This question is more complicated than it appears, so much so that even Oscar Wilde changed his mind about it. After The Picture of Dorian Gray first appeared in the July 1890 edition of...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
As Lord Henry gazes at the portrait of the beautiful Dorian Gray, he has much to say about beauty, a part of life he appreciates very much. He states that: there is no doubt that genius lasts...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Lord Henry Wotton is a wealthy aristocrat who first meets the young title character of Wilde's novel in the studio of their mutual friend, the painter Basil Hallward. He espouses a cynical,...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Lord Henry Wooton is an influential character to Dorian Gray. He serves as an agent of change in Dorian by provoking him to explore every emotion and sensation that Dorian may be curious about...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray is rife with epigrams and paradoxes. This is because the novel was written during the late 1880's, a time period in Wilde's life reportedly...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
That is an interesting forum discussion topic in that it could be a massive discussion. One thing to keep in mind is that you don't have to agree with the statement. If it is truly a discussion,...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Both novels are Gothic, and the Gothic genre involves the manifestation of passion, evil, the supernatural, horror, and darkness throughout the story. Dorian Gray is slightly more supernatural than...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
The indulgence of the senses is one the the main themes in this novel. Lord Henry believes that one should not deny oneself of their impulses and desires, and Dorian attempts to follow this view....
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
I would start in chapter 8 with this question. Dorian feels horrible about what he has done to Sibyl, and he wants to devote his life to her. He even decides to marry her. Henry shows up and gives...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
One could say that the change that occurs within Dorian Gray is the element that drives the entire narrative of the novel. One could also say that every thing that Dorian Gray does, no matter how...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
What this extract shows is the multi-faceted nature of Wilde's personality and the enormous gap between how he was perceived by others and what he was really like. Here was a man with a great love...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Dorian Gray leads what could be described as an aestheticized existence. In choosing to live out his sordid fantasies he's blurring the distinction between art and life. Dorian finds it impossible...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
You might like to consider the way in which the narrative of this excellent novel draws attention to various mythical parallels that operate within the text and help us to understand it better. In...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
In chapter 1 of The Picture of Dorian Gray, Basil Hallward explains that he does not want to exhibit Dorian's portrait because, as he says, "I really can't exhibit it. I have put too much of myself...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Lord Henry tries to influence Dorian Gray by encouraging him to lead a life of debauchery. His philosophy of life—if one wants to call it that—is little more than a self-serving cover for an...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
There are certainly lots of things you can do, but I am wondering if the class you need to present needs to be based on the entire novel or just a specific part. Obviously, depending what the...
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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 importance of elegance in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray is undeniable. By definition, elegance refers to one's character or surroundings exuding grace, style, and taste. Elegance is...
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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...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
I think that much could be made to suggest that Wilde was a large force in Modernism. One of the elements that comes out through his work is the idea of seeking to explore the result of...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Certainly, it is arguable that Basil's murder is the ultimate act of insanity that Dorian Gray leads. It is after the murder of Basil that things just continue to go steadily from bad to worse in...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray has been seen as an allegory of English/Irish relations in several different ways, including the following: In his book Terror and Irish Modernism,...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Well, there are clearly many possible answers to this excellent question. I will respond by just focussing on one alone, which is the Gothic idea of the double or the doppelganger. Running...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray certainly criticizes and mocks at the prudish and hypocritical Victorian social values by presenting to the audience the exaggerated preoccupations of the...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
You might like to consider how the city of London is presented and how it becomes a reflection of Dorian's somewhat divided character in the story. We appear to be presented with two areas of...
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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
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
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
Dorian gets the idea from Lord Henry Wotton, who talks about a philosophy of life in which morality is set aside in the pursuit of fulfillment through the enjoyment of sensuality and passion....
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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 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
To compare and contrast Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with Oscar Wilde`s The Picture of Dorian Gray, you might want to select a single theme for comparison....
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest are filled with innuendos. We know that Wilde's own personal life was often reflected in his character. We also know that he was...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde, as an artist will do, created a work of art by writing this novel. As he states in the Preface, "Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art." He also...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
In Chapter 2 of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray we find Lord Henry Wooton, Basil Hallward, and Dorian Gray at the precise moment when Basil has completed the portrait of Dorian. We know...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Lord Henry's advice is, essentially, to live life to the fullest while he is young, before the ravages of time sap him of his youth. He should, Lord Henry tells him, live for himself, and for no...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Your initial idea is great. A key theme of this amazing novel is the power of corruption and Lord Henry is certainly the character that corrupts Dorian, in spite of the best efforts of Basil to...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
I hope you still need an answer. I found a possible one, but if this is contrary to what you learned, please let me know what info you got on your side: Apparently Mrs. Vane used to be an actress,...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Great question! While Lord Henry Wooton certainly offers Dorian the first ideas about "living for sensations", we could argue that Dorian took these ideas and "ran with them", making them more and...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
I would suggest that you focus on the way Dorian's character changes throughout the book as he plunges ever further down the path of corruption and vice thanks to Lord Henry's suggestions and...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
I think you might be getting confused between different points of view here. Normally we only associate questions concerning the reliability of a narrator with tales that are told using the first...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
As The Picture of Dorian Gray is social satire, you shouldn't put too much literal stock in anything anyone says. If you want to understand how the artist or Oscar Wilde feels about women, you...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
During the time that Wilde was writing The Picture of Dorian Gray, psychology was just at the beginning of its rise to scientific legitimacy. Psychology had already started as a recognized field at...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
There was an intense debate about the purpose of art in the Victorian period which traces back to theories of art derived from classical antiquity and continues to the present. Why do we look at...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
The answer to your question "No". The reason for it is that, as any Wildean scholar will argue, Wilde's role in the Aesthetic movement, his philosophy on Art, and the staunch believe in Walter...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
The characters in The Picture of Dorian Gray are not necessarily round and complex. For a character to be round and complex it needs to change throughout the plot as a result of the different...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
We find that in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray the author intends to present to us with a character whose presence causes a number of extraordinary reactions in those who meet him. Dorian...
