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english literature - Coggle Diagram

- - - - change of social and cultural landscape of UK
- - - - beautiful young man
      - falls in love with his portrait (ritratto)
      - dorian wishes never to grow old
      - desire fulfilled, the portrait bears the signs of age/immoral life (peccati)
      - he stabs the portrait : accoltellare
      - dorian dies showing the signs of age and corruption while the portrait returns to its originnal beauty
- - - - he splits into 2 people, so he can indulge in his dark passions but retain his good reputation.
      - sometimes is easy, sometimes is complicated: in the last chapter is explained that Jekyll is a composite of good and evil
    - - conception of humanity as dual in nature
        
        "Man is not one, but truly two" an angel and a devil
        
        what happen to the angel?
    - - behave carefully and properly
      - he uses mr. hyde to hide his disrespect to rules and moral codes
      - importance of appearance and facades
    - - nightmarish imagery
    - - uguly, deformes
        
        symbolizes his moral hideousness
        
        preserve his reputation and also the apprearance
  - - - he felt his caking was to be a writer
      - he was often abroad
        
        health problems, tubercolosis
      - 1876 met his future wife Fanny Osbourne
        
        1880 got married
      - last years in the South Seas (Samoa) 1994 death
    - - lot of different genres
        
        also, he felt constrained iby the strict social norms of the victorian era
        
        tension between duty and abandon to urges (istinti)