Transcript Oscar Wilde and The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian
Gray
Triin Reidla
XIB
2011
Author
Born in 1854 in Dublin
 Trinity College, Oxford University
 First published work – “Poems”
 In 1890 and 1891 – “The Picture of Dorian
Gray”
 In 1895 – imprisonment
 1897-1900 – exile in France
 25th November 1900 – died in Paris
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Overview
The only published novel
 Genre – gothic horror
 Main characters: Dorian Gray, Basil
Hallward, Lord Henry Wotton
 Other characters:
Sibyl and James Vane,
Alan Campbell etc
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Themes
Aestheticism
 Duplicity
 Influence and responsibility
 Hedonism
 Dandies
 Self-worship leads to self-destruction
 Beauty is a mask
 Earthly pleasures
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Allusions
Dante’s “Faust”
 Huysmans’ “À Rebours”
 Shakespeare
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Thank you!
Sources
http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/Gui
des3/PictureOfDorian.html#Type
 http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/doriangray
/themes.html
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Picture_o
f_Dorian_Gray
 http://notearama.blogspot.com/2011/01/n
otes-on-picture-of-dorian-gray.html
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