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The Picture Of Dorian Grey
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Content
Homework disussion Oscar Wilde Plot and characters Literary devices Themes Asignment
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Homework
How did you feel about the text fragment?
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Would you trade your soul for eternal youth?
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Oscar Wilde
Constance LLoyd
Robert Ross
Lipincotts Monthly Magazine
Lord Alfred Douglas
Trials
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"If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly will see its moral lesson.”
"If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly will see its moral lesson.”
"If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly will see its moral lesson.”
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"Dorian, from the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me"
"Dorian from the moment I met you... it is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend."
"Dorian, from the moment I met you, your personality
had the most extraordinary influence over me."
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Oscar Wilde
Constance LLoyd
Robert Ross
Lipincotts Monthly Magazine
Lord Alfred Douglas
Trials
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“The painter was silent and preoccupied. There was a gloom over him. He could not bear this marriage, and yet it seemed to him to be better than many other things that might have happened.”
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Plot
The start
Basil
Painting
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Plot
Henry
Beauty
Oxford
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Plot
Dorian Gray
Innocent
Beauty
Henry's danger
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Plot
The worth of beauty
A wish
Theater
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Plot
Engagement
James's oath
Bad performance
Break up
Suicide
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Is Dorian already starting to lose his innocence according to you?
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Plot
Henry's influence
Castaway
More sins
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Plot
James Vane
Meeting Basil
Train to Paris
Chemistry
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Plot
James Ambush
Shot
Confronting his sins
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Do you think that Dorian can atone for his sins? How can he do this?
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Plot
The painting
Stabbing
Decay and restore
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To summarize
Trades soul
Gets influenced
Commits sins
Feels remorse
Stabs painting
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Literary Devices
- Existentialism
- Narrator
- Antagonist
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What do you think existentialism focuses on?
A
The setting of a novel
B
One's experiences, thoughts and views
C
The universal human experience
D
The backstory of the novel's author
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What is existentialism?
Existentialism focuses on the experience of an individual person and the way that he or she understands the world.
Conscious
Responsible for self
Own views
Characters in the novel
He was conscious - and the thought brought a gleam of pleasure into his brown agate eyes. [ ] To a large extent, he was his own creation.
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Narrator
- Implied speaker - anonymous and omniscient - 3rd person
On his return he would sit in front of the picture, sometimes loathing it and himself, but filled, at other times, with that pride of individualism that is half the fascination of sin, and smiling, with secret pleasure, at the misshapen shadow that had to bear the burden that should have been his own.
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What is a narrator?
A
The villain in a fictional work
B
The main character in a fictional work
C
The voice and implied speaker of a fictional work
D
The voice of reason in a fictional work
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Conflict
Different believes
Negative
Lord Henry Wotton
Provokes Dorian
Goes against Basil
Tends to look negatively
Antagonist
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After hearing about the plot, what themes do you think this novel is about?
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Themes
Youth and its worth
Influence
Beauty
Art and its purpose
Innocence and corruption
Friendship
Superficiality and status
Morals and philosophy of life
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Art and its purpose
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors."
Purpose of art debated
Big part of life
Preface
Spectators of art
Artist's purpose
"You are nothing without your art."
Life has its eleborate masterpieces, just as poetry has, or sculpture, or painting
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Superficiality and status
Superficiality is the fact or quality of being concerned only with what is obvious, external, or on the surface.
Concerned with status, youth and beauty
Not bothered by internal qualities
Closely interwoven with the themes of beauty and youth
“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
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Influence
Closely interwoven with innocence and corruption.
"Because to influence a person is to give him one’s own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him."
Encouraging to 'make the most of your youth'
Henry's influence is describes as poisonous.
“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
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Assignment
Discuss with your neighbour(s): do you think that Dorian became an antagonist? Why or why not?