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The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray. Oscar Wilde James Cline. Characters. Dorian Gray Lord Henry Wotten Basil Hallward Sibyl Vane James Vane. About the Novel. P oint of view: third person omniscient Tense: Past Setting place: London Setting time: 1890. The Painting.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

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  1. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde James Cline

  2. Characters • Dorian Gray • Lord Henry Wotten • Basil Hallward • Sibyl Vane • James Vane

  3. About the Novel • Point of view: third person omniscient • Tense: Past • Setting place: London • Setting time: 1890

  4. The Painting • A young man named Dorian Gray becomes the subject of an artist (Basil). • Dorian sees the painting and becomes upset because he knows he will not look that way forever.

  5. The Faustian Bargain • Dorian's soul becomes trapped in the painting when he expresses the desire for the portrait to age instead of himself. • Dorian then decides to live his life in the pursuit of pleasure, and with every sin or immoral act the picture grows hideous.

  6. Love? • Dorian meets a young woman named Sibyl whom he breaks her heart. • Sibyl commits suicide so Dorian moves and returns to London after 18 years. • His reputation suffers.

  7. Reputation • Basil comes to visit Dorian and enlighten him of the rumors about his wrongful ways. • Dorian asks Basil if he wants to “take a look into his soul”. • Dorian shows Basil the painting and he kills in a fit of rage.

  8. Revenge • James Vane (Sibyl’s brother) finds Dorian and tries to shoot him. • Dorian tricks James by saying that there is no way that he could have killed Sibyl because he was to young. • James figures he has been tricked and goes after Dorian only to be shot and killed by a group of hunters.

  9. Final Fight • Dorian, believes soon after that his ways have changed and that means the curse should be broken. • Dorian finds his portrait and reveals a painting more hideous than he imagined and he becomes enraged and uses the same knife he killed Basil with to stab the portrait.

  10. Death • Dorians servants find him lying on the floor, a withered old man with a stab wound in his chest. • However, the painting has returned to its original state.

  11. Immediately Criticized The Daily Chronicle – “unclean, poisonous, and heavy with the mephitic odours of moral and spiritual putrefaction.”

  12. Oscar WIlde • “The Picture of Dorian Gray” was the only novel he ever wrote. • Was sent to prison for two years in 1895 • Compared himself to Michelangelo and Shakespeare because he also loved young men.

  13. Dorian Gray Syndrome Also known as Body Dysmorphic Disorder.

  14. Classic? I believe it is a classic novel.

  15. Works Cited • http://www.dorian-gray-syndrom.org/PsychoAnalyse/revised_DGS/revised_Dorian_Gray_Syndrome.php • http://classiclit.about.com/od/pictureofdoriangray/fr/aa_dorian.htm

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