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THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1890) - Coggle Diagram
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1890)
style
descriptive, layers of sensory and poetic style
dialogue: witty and intriguing
omniscient 3-person narrator: reveal anyone's thought, but with Dorian POV
Gotich horror: supernatural potrait, frightening, moments of violence, fascination with evil
themes
double lives
Dorian
as beautiful and innocent young man
the evil portrait is his true face, hidden from view → locked in his attic
Sibly
: talented actress and a ordinary girl → he wants only the artist
Basil
→ to be good
Lord Henry
→ selfishness and evil
FAUSTIAN PACT
: exchanging his soul for eternal youth
L. Henry: tempter
persuade him for beuty and youth
encourages him to continue his life of pleasure and forget Sibly
later: corrupts other
Dorian enjoy to be evil: visits his portait to appreciate how lucky he is
he is doomed (condannato)
try to destroy the painting and kill himself
artist's life and art are separeted; art has no moral beyond
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Preface
:" against Aestheticism
characters
Dorian
: close to being perfect →beauty is his best quality and sacrifices his innocence for beauty
completely corrupt; at the ending he said he wishes he were capable of love
Basil Hallward
: artist, beauty and goodness are the same
cannot belive that Dorian's beautiful face could canceal an evil heart
Lord Henry
: hedonistic, selfish, witty and charming → see himself as Dorian's creator
Sibyl Vane
: like Dorian at the beginning, innocent and vulnerable, little experience in the world; destroyed by Dorian (he leaves her)
James Vane
: brother, motivated by grief and revange → prefers action to words
Basil made a portrait of Dorian
L. Henry tell the supremacy of Dorian about youth and beauty
D. prefer remain young forever and the portrait grows old in his place
Meet Sibly and fall in love → leaves her after a bad performance → she kill herself
life of
hedonism:
breaking hearts, corrupting friends, indulging in pleasure and sensation
18 years later: meet Basil and show his potrait and kills him
try to change the picture and attacks with a knife → dead
police find the potrait of a beautiful and innocent young man → Dorian is old, disfigured and evil-looking person
realise and hid the portrait in the attic