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THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1891) - Coggle Diagram
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1891)
PLOT SUMMARY
PLOT SUMMARY
London 19th century
the painter Basil drew a poirtrait of dorian Gray
once the portrait is done Lord Henry proposed to D. Gray to exchange his soul with the portrait, in this way he could be able to preserve his beauty forever
MAIN CHARACTERS
Dorian gray
Main character, young beatiful man and he represents innocence. He is actually very immature, easily influenced by Lord Henry
Basil Hallward
Side character, the painter of the portrait, romantically interested in D.Gray, afraid to show his paint even if it's his best works
Lord Henry Wotton
the evil character, brilliant talker, intellectual but corrupt man
THE THEME OF THE DOUBLE
moral lesson
hedonism leads his own destruction
make is life a manifesto of his ideas
Double
Dorian
Dorian picture
Hipocrisy
use is innocent apparence to be accepted
TIMELESS BEAUTY
Dorian's mask of timeless beauty
Renaissanse ideas of physical and spiritual
Horrible, corrupted picture
Dorian = symbol of middle class hypocrisy
Painting restored to its original beauty =represents Wilde's theories on art
THE MORTALITY OF THE YOUTH AND BEAUTY
Dorian’s beauty is such that people are astonished by it and all of his advantages seem to come from it
Dorian immediately views Basil’s portrait of him in a new light
the picture won't change, but Dorian himself will
In this way, mortality doesn't just destroy beauty and youth, it makes them things to treasure and obsess over because eventually they will be destroyed.
Dorian is saved from aging by the supernatural transformation of his portrait
try to experience every kind of excess, there is no consequences
The novel suggests that mortality will destroy beauty and youth and they need to be
pact with the devil
SYMBOL: THE PICTURE
It represents beauty, mortality, time, and art, all the major themes of the book, and its degradation literally presents to us the dangers inherent in these ideas
STYLE AND NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE
novel with element of Gothic novel (mysterious portrait)
unobstrusive 3rd person narrator
dialogues
reveal character personalities
settings
words appealing to the senses