The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is the story of moral corruption by the means of aestheticism. In the novel, the well meaning artist Basil Hallward presets young Dorian Gray with a portrait of himself. ... "If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! ... Because Lord Henry is responsible for influencing Dorian Gray, he is partly the cause of the death of Dorian (5810). ... The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel including a moral dialogue between conscience and temptation that is powerfully conveyed. ...

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Gray and Faustus" Self-Destruction In the novels Doctor Faustus and Picture of Dorian Gray the authors develop the main characters into showing their downfall in life caused by their self-centered corruption. ... On the surface, Dorian Gray is an example of a typical ideal aristocrat during the time which Oscar Wilde lived in. ... In the novel Portrait of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde emphasizes on the value of innocent beauty and uses Gray as an example of how this beauty can have the power to cause a person to become self-centered. ... Dorian Gray "sold himself to the devil for a pretty ...

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The relationship between Good and Beauty as well as Life and Art in ThePicture of Dorian Gray In my essay I am going to examine how appears in The Picture of Dorian Gray the question of "Beauty- and, what is strongly related to it especially at Wilde, the question of art. ... In The Picture of Dorian Gray Beauty is connected with Innocence. ... Lord Henry went to the garden and found Dorian Gray burying his face in the great cool lilac-blossoms, feverishly drinking in their perfume as if it had been wine."" ... You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything th...

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This is quite unusual being that "The Picture of Dorian Gray" centers on the love between a young man and woman). ... Outside, the day may be blue and gold, but the light that creeps down through the thickly-muffled glass of the small iron-barred window beneath which one sits is gray and niggard. ... Most of which comes from Wilde's work The Picture of Dorian Gray. Dorian Gray is often read as an explicit proclamation of the worthiness of living life by aesthetic values. ... In the novel, Lord Henry prompts Dorian to embrace the elegance of said belief. ...

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1. Setting is the time and place of the story. One page 165, the story says, "Of all the pupils at knight school..." I chose this quote as an example of setting because the story takes place at the knight school in medieval times. 2a. Characterization is a technique used by writers to create the character. ...

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• Grade Level: High School