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Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - Coggle Diagram
Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Basil Hornwood (artist)
Dorian gray
Beauty & Youth
Crime is of the lower class
Over 20 (chap 1)
Extreme version of unacknowledged normality
Quotes:
'brainless, beauty'
'simple and beautiful nature'
'my life as an artist depends on him'
'Charming boy'
'Exaudiary personal beauty'
Self-Divided
Ordinary secret sinners
High class
Lord Henry
'dont try and influence him'
Reputation
opinion of others
'...were in nature land of the hypercritical' Chap 1
Crime
Lower class criminal
Higher class illusionist
Escape consequences
Haunted by it
Sustain the impossible
Morality vs Beauty
Beauty
Destroyed by picture of former self
Destroying the picture destroying the beauty means destroying himself
Sustain of what shouldn't
Corruption
Corruption
Vain
Loss of own soul
Narcissistic tendencies
People's perception
obsession for perfection
Product of outside forces
Sin:
Envy
Of himself in the paining
Cruelty
Breaking up with Sibil because she couldn't act anymore
Wrath
Murder of Basil (His friend)
Lust
Oscar Wilde (author)
Gay man in a world of homophobia
Basil is trapped in the world ad can't show his picture
author loved
Dr jackal and Mr Hyde
well educated
Damned by his own art
References
https://literature-hound.site123.me/basil-hallward-in-dorian-gray
Basil Hallward is what I think I am; Lord Henry what the world thinks me; Dorian is what I would like to be in other ages, perhaps.” (p.116)
Letter from Wilde to his mother
"I have spent long days portraying the stereotypes of the upper class as quite disgusting"
"The greatest example is the main character, called Dorian Gray. At first glance he seems like an extraordinary, young man who behaves quite properly in the upper-class society. Although he is monstrously evil, and everything he does is for his own good. His obsession with his beautiful appearance is his tragic flaw and leads him to his own downfall,"
Trial (April 3, 1895)
Trial dates
The Libel Trial (April 3–5, 1895): Wilde sued the Marquess of Queensberry for libel after being accused of homosexuality, but withdrew the case.
Criminal Trial (April 26, 1895): Following the failed libel case, Wilde was arrested and tried for multiple counts of gross indecency, leading to a hung jury.
Retrial and Conviction (May 1895): A second criminal trial resulted in conviction on May 25, 1895
Change identity
Having to hide his identity to keep himself safe because England was deeply homophobic
Product of ones creation
Lived what Henry preached
Destruction through the creation of the artists beauty:
Basils art piece
Henry's ideology (thinks it is of a thing of beauty)
"Beauty is a form of Genius—is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world... It cannot be questioned. It has its divine right of sovereignty."