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The picture of Dorian Grey - Coggle Diagram
The picture of Dorian Grey
Opium
Forgiveness was impossible- religious beliefs
slows reactions makes you become zombie, like showing how this can be seen as supernatural and gothic within this extract.
Opium/horror dens were popular in Victorian England at this time
His addiction can be seen as not only for the opium but with his thoughts of eternal youth and beauty and how it could be interpreted that the opium is keeping Dorian young and beautiful.
Tropes and motifs
Scary atmosphere
the uncanny
The evil
Secret places
Pathetic fallacy
"The moon hung low in the sky like a yellow skull"
Wilde uses this simile to portray pathetic fallacy to show traditional gothic scenes
"Wreaths of white mist clung like ghostly sails to the yards"
"Like the black web of some sprawling spider"
Personification, death and decay
Themes
Unknown
"the squat misshapen figure that flattened itself upon the shadow"
"the vert vileness of thief and outcast"
Aristocracy
Setting
We see the influences of the opium dens through the settings, the 'dens of horror' that Dorian visits in the extract this shows his fateful misfortune.
Wilde uses the theme of setting in the extract to show the traditional Victorian London.
The setting in the extract is the best way in which Wilde portrays the gothic into the writing and we see how the traditional trope of strange places is shown vastly through the setting.