How does Oscar Wilde use the central character of Dorian Gray to create supernatural effects in the PODG ?
Something that must be established, to understand the supernatural in a PODG is the contrast between a material objects and a living organism. Its key due to the fact Dorian begins in the play living as a living thing, however in some respects he becomes a material object after “selling his soul”.
Dorian fails to comprehend the concept of ageing and it angers him that his painting will “never be older than this particular day in June”, however Dorian will and has aged passed it , he wishes “It were only the other way round.” Upon realising this it does cause Dorian real pain as a “sharp pang of pain struck through him like a knife,” and …show more content…
It really does to reinforce the fact that Dorian has lost his soul already and it’s gone and he ceases to live as human but as an object. The way O.W makes Dorians temper change from someone who was presented to us as a calm individual he becomes angry and demonic, perhaps saying he really has sold his soul and his innocence has gone. However he does seem to return to his “usual” manner after this farce, so perhaps, his mood change was caused by his inability to comprehend ageing and could be the equivalent a temper tantrum like a child, and his mannerisms leading from this are almost identical to a child “flinging himself onto a divan” and “buried his face in the cushions” mannerisms you expect from a young child, which can lead you to theory that Dorian is Young man physically but mentally is a child in the …show more content…
But just before Basil can do such a thing, Dorian stops him saying “It would be murder”. Basil of course views this as praise of his work by Dorian, but it’s not its I believe Dorian may have not comprehended yet what the painting is but he must have some sort on inkling, to have such a drastic change in opinion. If it is true that Dorian has sold his soul it is now in the painting and when Dorian says that the portrait is “part of myself” it weighs heavy in the air for the reader as the significance of this statement upon second reading is massive, and is a sure sign of a real supernatural relationship between the painting which is now in some respects the living Dorian, and the physical Dorian who will remain forever reminiscent of that day in June when Basil first painted
Something that must be established, to understand the supernatural in a PODG is the contrast between a material objects and a living organism. Its key due to the fact Dorian begins in the play living as a living thing, however in some respects he becomes a material object after “selling his soul”.
Dorian fails to comprehend the concept of ageing and it angers him that his painting will “never be older than this particular day in June”, however Dorian will and has aged passed it , he wishes “It were only the other way round.” Upon realising this it does cause Dorian real pain as a “sharp pang of pain struck through him like a knife,” and …show more content…
It really does to reinforce the fact that Dorian has lost his soul already and it’s gone and he ceases to live as human but as an object. The way O.W makes Dorians temper change from someone who was presented to us as a calm individual he becomes angry and demonic, perhaps saying he really has sold his soul and his innocence has gone. However he does seem to return to his “usual” manner after this farce, so perhaps, his mood change was caused by his inability to comprehend ageing and could be the equivalent a temper tantrum like a child, and his mannerisms leading from this are almost identical to a child “flinging himself onto a divan” and “buried his face in the cushions” mannerisms you expect from a young child, which can lead you to theory that Dorian is Young man physically but mentally is a child in the …show more content…
But just before Basil can do such a thing, Dorian stops him saying “It would be murder”. Basil of course views this as praise of his work by Dorian, but it’s not its I believe Dorian may have not comprehended yet what the painting is but he must have some sort on inkling, to have such a drastic change in opinion. If it is true that Dorian has sold his soul it is now in the painting and when Dorian says that the portrait is “part of myself” it weighs heavy in the air for the reader as the significance of this statement upon second reading is massive, and is a sure sign of a real supernatural relationship between the painting which is now in some respects the living Dorian, and the physical Dorian who will remain forever reminiscent of that day in June when Basil first painted