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Oscar Wilde Works
The picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
Characters
Dorian Gray
Youth
Beauty
Innocence
Lord Henry Wotton
Brilliant talker
Amoral aesthete
Sharp criticism of institutions
Basil Halward
Artist that made the picture
Themes
Beauty
Appearence
Youth
Double
Contrast between reality and appearance
Style
Unobtrusive third-person narrator
The Ballat of Reading Gaol (1898)
Story
Dedicated to Charles Thomas Wooldridge
Royal Horse Guards trooper who
murdered his wife out of jealousy
C.3-3
Structure
109 stanzas
6 sections
Slow rhytm
Six-line stanza
ABCBDB rhyme scheme
Evokes empathy
Use of refrain and parallelism
Themes
Hypocrisy of prison system
Suffering
Indictment of death penalty
Return to faith