The Picture of Dorian Gray
I believe a great deal of thought went into the writing of this book. It is very detailed and in addition, it is very hard to sustain an allegory throughout. The Picture of Dorian Gray has many thought provoking phrases and paragraphs. There are many different literary techniques used such as foreshadowing in the first two chapters in very subtle undertones. Also used was a great amount of detail, which sets the mood for certain scenes, such as when, during the painting of Dorian Gray's portrait, Dorian and Lord Henry Wotton go into Basil Hallward's garden and converse. The author wrote the book as an attack on the British Aristocracy. It shows how the upper-crust citizen cared about what showed on the outside and that they wanted to stay ignorant to their souls. There are many, many hints as to this meaning in the book, for example: Lord Henry's line in paragraph 15 of page 206, " I admit that I think it is
I have to be honest, I had a very hard time with this book in the beginning, which is stressed in my journal. Later on, certain things came into focus and I caught on. In other words, I saw the light. I was trying too hard in the beginning, and I looked at in the wrong "light"... both the book and the portrait. At first, I was confused, I didn't know what the author was trying to say and it frustrated me. I was trying to find the meaning of the portrait's changing, and how it fit in with a story about a man named Dorian Gray. On one level, I realized the portrait was of his other side, his soul, just as his persona represented the outer trappings of the British high society and, in another light, the portrait represented the inner realism and decay of their culture. I felt horribly disgusted over Dorian's outburst at Sibyl Vane on her last night. He was in love with her acting, not her, and since she couldn't
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Dorian Gray, Lord Henry's, Sibyl Vane, British Aristocracy, , James Vane, Basil Hallward's, dorian gray, Era British, Carpe- Diem, Dorian Gray's, james vane, british society,
Approximate Word count = 622
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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