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THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY - Coggle Diagram
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
SETTING
London, England
Henry's house
Opium Dens and High-society Venues
Dorian's House
CHARACTERS
Sibyl and James Vane
Lord Hanry Wotton is a brillant talker, sharp in his criticism of institutions
DORIAN GRAY = : ideal of youth, beauty and innocence
Basil Hallward
NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE
internal perspective
words appealing to the senses
unobstrusive third-person narrator
MEANING
MORAL: every excess must be punished and there is no escape from reality
the picture rappresenta his SOUL and ages when Dorian does a bad action
19th-century version of the legend of Faust
picture=immorality of the Victorian middle class Dorian innocent appearance=symbol of Buorgeois hypocrisy
the picture represents his CORRUPTION, hidden by his timeless beauty