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The Picture of Dorian Gray (characters (Lord Henry Wotton (creates a…
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Faustian Myth
Story of split personality
characters
Lord Henry Wotton
creates a perfect beeing through Dorian
Only beauty and youth
corrupted, manipulating, self-indulgent, lives for pleasure
seduces with a unnamed yellow book
Basil Hallward
killed in a fit of rage
Dorian Gray
innocent and pure, doen't recognise his beauty
His wish come true
picture, grows old in his place embodies crimes and lies he committed,keeps changing, fear of beeing found out , locked
pleasures
infatuated by his beauty --> fear --> wish
Sibyl Vane
talent is gone
James Vane
her brother
Alan
chemist
not a simple villain he embodies aspects of Wilde's own philosophy: cult of beaty, art, rejection of masses
38th birthday, no aged, dissipated life
regrets his wish, reverse process in portrait, expression of cunning, wrinled old man recognized from the ring
split between appearence and reality
eternal beaty of art transformed in life