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THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (GB Grassi) (themes (youth=beauty=happiness,…
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (GB Grassi)
dates
1890
1891
enlarged
preface (answer to criticism)
artist creates beautiful things
a work of art has to conceal the artist (negative capability, Sibyl Vane)
criticism is an example of autobiography
no moral or immoral books
art is an imperfect medium
art is useless
themes
youth=beauty=happiness
modern version of the myth of Faust
the picture=soul and records of the signs of experience, corruption, sins concealed under Dorian's beauty
symbol of immorality of the Victorian middle class
excesses must be punished
reality cannot be escaped
art survives people, it is eternal
Victorian compromise
charactesrs
Dorian Gray
protagonist
Lord Henry
villain, advocates selfishness, praises youth and beauty, pursuit of pleasure
Basil Hallward
artist
Sibyl Vane
actress of London's slums who kills herself
James Vane
Sibyl's brother who wants to kill Dorian