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Picture of Dorian Grey (beauty) - Coggle Diagram
Picture of Dorian Grey (beauty)
1890 -> magazine -> scandalous, immoral
1891 -> revised, extended -> added a preface and six new chapters. -> The Preface is a series of epigrams -> express the major points of Oscar Wilde’s aesthetic philosophy
reflects personality
Part Gothic novel, part comedy of manners
Key facts:
pleasures
killed
experience and vices
dorian to get free -> suicide
eternal youth
portrait withered and wrinkeled
basil makes a portrait of Gray
london
moral
Every excess must be punished, and reality
cannot be escaped
can't avoid the punishment for his sins-> death
art survives people, art is eternal
picture -> immorality and bad consience of victorian middle class
dr faust (allegorical meaning)
keeping on the devil role
devil advocate
temptation of ageless beauty
picture -> dark side
sells his soul