In the book The Picture of Dorian Gray written by Oscar Wilde, the main character, Dorian Gray is an extraordinary interesting character with the fact that his persona and overall maturity of a person, change ever so rapidly throughout the story. Wilde develops Dorian Gray at a rather tremendous pace, with changes being evident within the first few chapters of the book. Wildes motive for this is unknown but with the evidence given throughout the book I have confidence in saying he chose to do this to mirror one 's thought process. This seems likely because Dorian was content living his perfect, beautiful life until Lord Henry mentioned to him that youth and beauty doesn 't last forever, and that soon Dorian will become old
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The themes and characters in this book impact the reader in a variety of different ways. When the reader gets more into the story Wilde does a clever job of pulling at your heartstrings while also punching the reader in the stomach at the same time. As the story starts the reader sympathizes with Basil, a quiet man who clearly wants the attention from someone he idolizes, Dorian. Then later on in the story as Dorian becomes more and more nauseating towards Basil and other people it makes the reader feel a whole wave of angry emotions inside of them, especially when the context is compared to one of the main themes of false beauty, it makes the reader want to tell Basil that Dorian isn 't actually beautiful as a person he just looks like it and even though Basil knows that the reader wants to jump in and talk to him. The different types of literary devices in the book are limited, but the ones that are utilized are extremely efficient in their doing as they are very significant. One of the most prominent literary devices the use of allegories. The central one is Dorian 's portrait …show more content…
The portrait shows beauty can sometimes only be visible from one 's perspective until you read between the lines and catch a glimpse of what it is really all about. Everyone sees the portrait of something beautiful, much like what everyone sees when they 're eyes wandering onto Dorian himself. Dorian though is the only person who witnesses the portrait go through drastic changes while he commits crimes against nature and people. This acts like his conscience because whenever he goes to stare at his once beautiful portrait he is reminded of all the sins he has committed and he can 't stand it, this is a reference to the thought that people never know what is truly beneath somebody 's surface. Another literary device used is foreshadowing. This is played upon when Basil is about to be murdered by the hands of the man he praises, Dorian himself. “He was walking home about eleven o 'clock from Lord Henry’s, where he had been dining, and was wrapped in heavy furs, as the night was cold and foggy” (Wilde 166). This displays an idea for what events are about to come that night in the story as Dorian commits one of the most unforgivable crimes that evening, murdering his loving friend in cold
The themes and characters in this book impact the reader in a variety of different ways. When the reader gets more into the story Wilde does a clever job of pulling at your heartstrings while also punching the reader in the stomach at the same time. As the story starts the reader sympathizes with Basil, a quiet man who clearly wants the attention from someone he idolizes, Dorian. Then later on in the story as Dorian becomes more and more nauseating towards Basil and other people it makes the reader feel a whole wave of angry emotions inside of them, especially when the context is compared to one of the main themes of false beauty, it makes the reader want to tell Basil that Dorian isn 't actually beautiful as a person he just looks like it and even though Basil knows that the reader wants to jump in and talk to him. The different types of literary devices in the book are limited, but the ones that are utilized are extremely efficient in their doing as they are very significant. One of the most prominent literary devices the use of allegories. The central one is Dorian 's portrait …show more content…
The portrait shows beauty can sometimes only be visible from one 's perspective until you read between the lines and catch a glimpse of what it is really all about. Everyone sees the portrait of something beautiful, much like what everyone sees when they 're eyes wandering onto Dorian himself. Dorian though is the only person who witnesses the portrait go through drastic changes while he commits crimes against nature and people. This acts like his conscience because whenever he goes to stare at his once beautiful portrait he is reminded of all the sins he has committed and he can 't stand it, this is a reference to the thought that people never know what is truly beneath somebody 's surface. Another literary device used is foreshadowing. This is played upon when Basil is about to be murdered by the hands of the man he praises, Dorian himself. “He was walking home about eleven o 'clock from Lord Henry’s, where he had been dining, and was wrapped in heavy furs, as the night was cold and foggy” (Wilde 166). This displays an idea for what events are about to come that night in the story as Dorian commits one of the most unforgivable crimes that evening, murdering his loving friend in cold