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OSCAR WILDES “The picture of Dorian Gray” Oscar Wilde was a very popular Irish author, poet and a play writer, best known for his book “The Picture Of Dorian Gray”. Born on the 16th of October 1854 in Dublin, Ireland, to Robert Wilde and Jane Francesca Wilde, he turned out to be a quick-witted kid like his parents. His father was a well-known doctor, earned the title of ‘Sir’ for his work as a medical advisor. His mother, Jane Francesca, was a writer who used to write under the pseudonym…

Wilde excelled exceptionally in academics at Trinity College in Dublin, Magdalen College, and Oxford. Leading him to become a writer of plays, novels, essays, and poems, which he is most known for today. Specifically, he was known for his novel “The Picture of Dorian Grey” and the play “The importance of Being Earnest.” Although most of his works were criticized for being…

The artwork that I have presented thoroughly symbolizes many aspects in the novel 1984. Understanding that there are so many different forms of symbolisms throughout the novel, I chose to illustrate what I thought were some of the most important. From examining my illustration, you can see that there is a man’s hand holding a glass paper weight; and within it is a brain. The hand is contemplating on whether or not to crush the paperweight as it will have full control once completed. You can…

At the start of the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dorian Gray is a face that is both literally and figuratively untouched by external forces. His own ideas about society, morality, youth, beauty are barely formed. They exist as soft and malleable globs of clay that do not yet have any tangible substance or definitive shape. Consequently, throughout the entirety of Wilde’s novel, Gray is molded by the myriad of internal and external forces that bombard a person throughout their lives. By the…

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all” (Wilde 0). These are the words of Oscar Wilde, the author of the 1890 philosophical fiction novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, who is prefacing said novel with the notion that art, be it books, paintings, music, or anything similar, should only serve one purpose: to be admired. Throughout this novel, he presents the argument of aestheticism: that art should not hold an inherent moral…

Madeline Barbier Video Essay PSY 340- Adolescences Adolescences Through the Eyes of Little Miss Sunshine In the years of adolescences, adolescents often times are experiencing a crisis of identity. They are trying to understand what roles they fall into and a lot of times their families and their self-esteem influences this “self-understanding”. In Little Miss Sunshine, many key concepts to adolescence are seen in the 7-year old character, Olive Hoover. She is going through the fifth…

Moral Development Outline – The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde I. Dorian Gray’s moral decay begins with painter Basil Hallward’s discovery of him and the subsequent collision of influences Dorian faces. A. When Basil first meets Dorian, Dorian’s purity and untainted youth capture the imagination of Basil to an almost dangerous extent that eventually harms Dorian. 1. When Basil confesses he “couldn’t be happy if [he] didn’t see [Dorian] every day” (Wilde 7), Wilde suggests the…

What is the importance of Lord Henry’s introduction in the novel Dorian Gray? Lord Henry Wotton is the first character introduced in Oscar Wilde’s novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. From the start of the novel it is evident that Lord Henry lives an extremely lavish lifestyle and has an eye for beautiful things and their aesthetic. His eye could “just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossom of a laburnum” as he is lying on a “divan of Persian saddle bags.” Wilde portrays…

For the Wages of Sin is Death: The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray tells the tale of a beautiful young man with a disturbing curse. The novel follows the moral corruption of the protagonist Dorian Gray, who is introduced to us as someone innocent and unspoiled. It is only after he gets his portrait painted by an artist named Basil Hallward, that his death begins its countdown. Basil reluctantly introduces him to Lord Henry, a rather interesting character…

that art served as a reinforcement of ethics. As religion and morality pursued to restrict art to stand on its own, a group of artists revolted against Victorian beliefs; among them was Oscar Wilde. He composed a philosophical fictional novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, that serves as a contradictory model against Victorianism for the sake of art. It directs on Wilde’s uprise against morality and the embrace of a hedonistic lifestyle. An…