wants to destroy the painting when he knew it would hurt Basil, when Dorian breaks up with Sybil, and when Dorian kills Basil. Dorian shows his greed for his youth and beauty when he sees the painting Basil drew. During the time Lord Henry is talking to Dorian about his youth and beauty, Dorian gets extremely upset when he realizes that he will continue to grow old, but his portrait will not. Dorian starts to envision…
Dorian Gray is a complex character for he is perfect yet flawed, beautiful yet hideous, and good yet evil. These complexities are displayed when Basil created the portrait for Dorian. The painting started off as the ageless beauty but turned into this horrendous reminder of the sins Dorian has done. Readers want to sympathize with Dorian yet they can’t due to all the awful things he does. The first…
The first appearance of Basil is in his studio painting a portrait of “a young man of extraordinary personal beauty”. Despite Basil’s reluctance, he confesses this is Dorian Gray. The “personal beauty” of the portrait and overwhelming olfactory description creates a picturesque paradise in Basil’s studio, subverting expectation for any sin or immorality. It represents Basil precisely as he is always loving and optimistic, without any callousness, in his appreciation of beauty. Wilde describes…
characters Holmes and Watson, or Basil and Dawson, have a relationship, kind of like a bromance, that is portrayed in different ways. Both set of characters have a very good relationship and would do anything for each other. They also have moments where they are rude to each other but go back to working together in peace because they “love” one another. Whereas each set of characters would do anything for each other, in SH, Holmes and Watson have a better relationship than Basil and Dawson in…
men without being labeled homosexual. The three main characters, Basil, Lord Henry and Dorian, experience many situations that illustrate these two theories. There is also an erotic triangle that links the two enemies, Basil and Lord Henry, to a romance which is Dorian. These theories and the erotic triangle depict masculinity throughout the characters, which will be explained throughout this paper. To begin, The Picture of…
sentence. In the first page when Wilde introduces us to two of the main characters, Basil and Lord Henry, we see the usage of “flora” as a means of communication. He introduces us to Basil first, when describing his art studio, and in the sentence around him we see that he insinuate Basil to be not just a “rose”, but a “pink-flowering thorn”. Roses as we know are a symbol of love and affection, and by implying that Basil is pink rose he reveals his passionate essence of love without the reader…
In “The Freshest Boy” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Basil Lee’s significant feeling of being ostracized causes him to ameliorate his demeanor with the boys of St. Regis. From the beginning of the story, Basil’s experience at boarding school is dreadful. Basil is “fresh” with his classmates once again, separating himself from the educational community. The realization of this shocks him. After one particular day that he is savagely abashed in, “[Basil] [goes] up to his room and [cries]”; being shunned…
Basil is the artist who has put too much of himself in his art and suffers the consequences. When discussing his painting of Dorian Gray, Basil explains that he must not display the painting because “I will not bare my soul to their shallow, prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope. There is too much of myself in the thing, Harry--too much of myself!” (Wilde 13). After creating the painting of Dorian Gray, Basil realizes that he has put too much…
destruction of various characters including: Dorian Gray and Basil Hallward. One of the broader notions presented in the novel reveals itself as the stark disapproval of sacrificing one's self to another to the point of destruction, or the loss of one's soul. Wilde deftly delivers this recurrent theme to sway readers by using potent diction and implying grave repercussions. Throughout the first chapter, Wilde utilizes deliberate and…
Basil in On the Holy Spirit argues that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are essentially equal in nature. While heretics try to subvert the role of Holy Spirit in the trinity, Basil rightly argues that there is no distinction in authority between the three persons. He argues that from the beginning of time, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit were one in the same, and even if someone were to “travel ever so far backward you cannot get beyond the was, and however you may strain and strive to see…