Transcript The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray
 In this revision presentation I will be using the Wordsworth
Classics version of the text for all page number notes.
 Do not focus on learning all the quotes in this
presentation – there are too many! They have been included in
order to build a comprehensive picture of the themes of the novel.
Instead, if you choose to learn quotes from this presentation, pick
out the quotes that you think are most important, based on:
 A diverse set of themes so that you can apply them to different
questions.
 How well you understand them and can apply them in questions.
Some key revision sources
Some useful revision sources for this book are:
 Sparknotes – chapter summaries and analysis
 Cliffsnotes for more in-depth concepts and ideas.
 About.com - quotes
 Gradesaver – themes
 Try adding to the notes – either by annotating your book, or
by writing them down – that you think will be useful in the
exam for you, rather than simply trying to absorb all the
information, as there is a lot here – designed to fill up your
weak points as opposed to tell you all the basics.
The Preface
Outline
 The Preface can be a useful piece of context to link the book
to in the exam.
 In it, Wilde outlines through a series of epigrams: or witty
sayings, his main views.
 Many of these are on the subject of aestheticism and art.
Links to the text / Key Quotes
 “The Artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal
art and conceal the artist is art’s aim.”
 Consider how this relates to Basil Hallward’s view of art: “It is
not he who is revealed by the painter; it rather the painter, who, on the
coloured canvas, reveals himself.” (c1, p8)
 This suggests that Basil does not fulfil the purpose of art: he sees
the picture of Dorian as showing “in it the secret of my own soul”.
(c1, p8)
Motif: The
Portrait
Character:
Basil Hallward
Links to the text / Key Quotes
 “There is no such thing as an immoral book. Books are
well written, or badly written. That is all.”
 This is interesting in how it relates to the book Henry gives
Dorian. This book is a ‘yellow-bound’ book, known at the time to
signify something controversial. Dorian expresses a keen interest
in it and after reading it, his morals and actions deteriorate rapidly.
 To Henry, he notes: “you poisoned me with a book once.” (c19,
p172)
 Wilde could be noting that the book itself, whilst Dorian believes
it to be immoral and a cause of his moral failings, was merely
something for Dorian to blame his actions on.
Motif: The YellowBound Book
Character:
Dorian Gray
Links to the text / Key Quotes
 “All art is quite useless.”
 Wilde states here that Art does not have a purpose, and yet
the Portrait Basil paints of Dorian serves to show him his
own soul.
Motif: The
Portrait
Chapter One
Summary of Events
 Henry watches Basil working on his picture of Dorian, and
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calls it his best work.
Basil says he will not exhibit the work, and Henry asks why.
Basil at first says that he has shown too much of himself in it.
Henry calls this childish and asks for a better explanation.
Basil reveals he has a deep adoration for Dorian, describes
their first meeting and states that in the portrait he has shown
the secret of his own soul.
Henry says that he would like to meet Dorian, but Basil says
he does not want him to, and begs Henry not to try to
influence Dorian.
Points to note: Chapter One
 This chapter seems to serve a function of setting up many of
the key themes before the core crux of the story begins.
 If this chapter did not exist and we began by meeting Dorian
straight away, we would lose two things.
 We would not get to see Basil’s perceptions of Dorian and
build him up to be a magnificent character.
 We would not have an outline of many of the core themes
before the action of the story begins, that Henry, largely,
introduces into the story.
Quote Analysis: Chapter One
 “Basil Hallward, whose sudden disappearance some
years ago caused, at the time, such public
excitement, and gave rise to so many strange
conjectures.” (page 5)
 This quote serves two purposes: first, it foreshadows the later
events of the novel when Basil goes missing and becomes the
subject of gossip.
 Secondly, it shows how superficial society is and their interest
in gossip, setting up one of the key themes of the novel.
Character:
Basil Hallward
Quote Analysis: Chapter One
 “He, too, felt that we were destined to know each
other.”
 This passage where Basil speaks of his adoration for Dorian
and their first meeting has an unmistakably romantic feel
about it.
 Basil introduces Dorian here as a huge influence upon his life:
revolutionising his art.
Character:
Dorian Gray
Character:
Basil Hallward
Quote Analysis: Chapter One
 “Don’t spoil him. Don’t try to influence him.” (page
15)
 Basil, despite Dorian having considerable influence on him,
recognises that influence can be negative and begs Henry not
to ‘spoil’ Dorian, who greets this idea with amusement.
 Later in the novel, Henry does try to influence Dorian, and
does so as a kind of project. Basil’s rejection of this idea
seems to suggest that Henry makes a habit of this.
Character:
Henry Wooton
Quote Analysis: Chapter One
 “Women have no appreciation of good looks; at least,
good women have not.” (page 14)
 Henry here brings in one of the major commentaries of Wilde’s
novel: the way in which society treats women. He infers that a
‘good’ woman – for example, the type one may want to marry,
would not appreciate the way someone looks, but a woman you
would have fun with e.g. a prostitute may appreciate it.
 This relegates women to a side-line role: a ‘nessecity’ to men but
expected to be a sub-human accessory to their standing in society.
 Context: For example, women in Victorian society were
expected to not have a sex drive.
Chapter Two
Summary of Events
 Basil and Henry enter and see Dorian. Basil begins painting him, whilst Henry
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talks to him, noting his beauty and youth.
Basil tells Henry to leave so he can finish the painting, but Dorian insists he
stays. Basil gives in and allows it, begging Henry to stay because Dorian wants
him to.
Basil warns Dorian not to listen to anything Henry says.
Henry tells him about influence, and his views on giving in to pleasure: saying
that man is afraid to take that route, but doing so would give man an ideal life,
and continues to talk of how superior beauty and youth is. This sets up many of
the strands throughout the story. Dorian is captivated by this monologue.
Harry finishes the portrait, and says it belongs to Dorian.
Dorian laments how sad it is that he will grow old and the portrait will stay
young, and wishes he could change places with it.
Despite objections from Basil, Dorian promises to go to the theatre with
Henry that night.
Points to note: Chapter Two
 This is where we begin to see Henry’s famous influence at
work: almost at once, Dorian is enthralled by his words. This
feature has been imposed as Henry’s main characteristic, and
purpose, in the story.
 This story is where, as a seemingly innocent young boy,
Dorian begins to stray off the trail.
Quote Analysis: Chapter Two
 “There was something in his face that made one
trust him at once. All the candour of youth was
there, as well as all youth’s passionate purity.”
 This suggests from the outset how superior youth is seen to
age in society: and shows how superficially this is treated.
 Henry assumes that because Dorian looks trustworthy due to
his youth and beauty, his must be
 The narrator’s description of Dorian
also hints to the
theme of homoeroticism.
Character:
Henry Wooton
Character:
Dorian Gray
Quote Analysis: Chapter Two
 “All influence is immoral – immoral from the
scientific point of view.”
 Despite Henry consciously wanting to influence Dorian, he
notes its immorality, and hints at the themes of hedonism that
are to come with his treatment of perceived sin: giving in to
it regardless.
Character:
Henry Wooton
Quote Analysis: Chapter Two
 “Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as
nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
 Henry begins to introduce the concept of Hedonism: the idea
that Pleasure is the only true God. He suggests to Dorian
that, to live fully, one must give into the senses.
Character:
Henry Wooton
Character:
Dorian Gray
Quote Analysis: Chapter Two
 “There was something in his low, languid voice that was
fascinating. His cool, white, flower-like hands, even, had a curious
charm.”
 The motifs of white and flowers are important throughout this
novel. They serve to represent the treatment of innocence and
purity. Here, Dorian is still somewhat pure: although he has been
touched by Henry’s influence, he has not committed any sin. And
yet he remarks on Henry’s hands that they had a “curious charm” –
suggesting that he is beginning to question purity, subtly.
 Furthermore, his description of Henry is homoerotic: focusing on
the beauty of this man.
Character:
Henry Wooton
Motif: The Colour
White
Character:
Dorian Gray
Motif: Flowers
Quote Analysis: Chapter Two
 “You have only a few years in which to live really,
perfectly and fully.”
 Henry here is telling Dorian that his life will inevitably
deteriorate: will never be perfect, as he grows old and ugly,
outlining the supremacy of youth and beauty in society.
Chapter Three
Summary of events
 Henry goes to his uncle’s to ask about Dorian Gray’s parents.
 He finds that his mother was a rich and beautiful woman who
ran away with Dorian’s ‘penniless’ father, and that Dorian’s
father was killed a few months after the marriage. His
mother died within a year.
 He goes to his Aunt Agathas’ to dine there, and on the way
marvels of the influence he could have over Dorian.
 There they discuss hedonism and selfishness, Dorian being
present. Dorian is fascinated by this and goes with Henry,
abandoning his pre-made plans to see Basil.
Points to Note: Chapter Three
 We begin to see Dorian make choices that alter his future
here: such as leaving with Henry, the bad influence, rather
than meeting Basil, who is a far purer and less influential
character to him.
Quote Analysis: Chapter Three
 “There was something terribly enthralling in the
exercise of influence.”
 Here, Henry speaks of Hedonism as well as influence: giving
in morals to gain a higher pleasure. His notes of the ‘pleasure’
he will gain from exercising influence over Dorian also have a
homoerotic undertone.
 Note how he describes it as “terribly”
enthralling: seemingly oxymoronic.
Character:
Henry Wooton
Quote Analysis: Chapter Three
 “To get back one’s youth, one has merely to repeat
one’s follies.”
 This hones in the way that youth and beauty are seen in
Victorian society: as infinitely superior.
 Furthermore, it adds another level to Henry’s talk to Dorian
before, saying that youth is the only time where one lives
fully. Once again, Henry presses in the ideal of chasing
pleasure without thought for consequence.
Character:
Henry Wooton
Chapter Four
Summary of Events
 Dorian is waiting in Lord Henry’s house for Henry, and is
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instead greeted by his wife, who introduces herself.
She talks briefly with Dorian about music, and then Harry
arrives and she quickly leaves.
Dorian confesses he is in love with an actress: Sibyl Vane.
He talks of first seeing her performing and how awful the
production was but how wonderful Sibyl herself was.
Henry promises to go to see her perform with him.
Henry is engrossed in thought and later receives a telegram
from Dorian saying he was engaged to Sibyl.
Points to consider: Chapter Four
 The portrayal of woman is very much of note in this chapter:
Henry’s many speeches about them, as well as the character
of his wife appearing briefly.
 Note how quick and rushed the ‘romance’ between Sibyl and
Dorian is: why might this be?
 Dorian says early on in this chapter that he will never marry:
but by the end of it is engaged!
Quote Analysis: Chapter Four
 “You thought it was my husband. It is only his wife.”
 Even from her first introduction, Henry’s wife’s choice of
language seems to present her as the less important of her
and Henry in the relationship.
Quote Analysis: Chapter Four
 “My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a
decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but
they say it charmingly.” (page 40)
 At this point in the novel, this could be argued to be true of
all the women we have met. However, later in the novel,
Wilde challenges this with characters such as Lady
Narborough.
 Sybil herself seems to fall into this category, as she is
portrayed as rather a dumb and innocent creature with
little intelligence.
Quote Analysis: Chapter Four
 “It was curious, my not wanting to know her, wasn’t it?”
“No, I don’t think so.”
“My dear Harry, why?”
“I shall tell you some other time.” (page 44)
 Harry here carefully uses his influence over Dorian to keep his
power and control over him: showing how purposeful this is. By
keeping it secret, he keeps Dorian interested in him out of
curiosity.
 This quote also shows how much influence Harry has over him
already: Dorian seeks approval and opinions from him on every
matter.
Character:
Henry Wooton
Character:
Dorian Gray
Quote Analysis: Chapter Four
 “Tell me how to charm Sibyl Vane to love me! I want to
make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world
to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of
our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake
their ashes into pain. My God, Harry, how I worship
her!” (p.45)
 Dorian appears rather childish here: as if he is throwing a tantrum,
making demands. He wants others to be envious, and is not
content with his own happiness.
 Additionally, the phrase “How I worship her!” contributes to the
idea that Dorian sees Sibyl as an idea – all these roles into one – as
opposed to a person he is genuinely in love with.
 The phrase “My God, Harry,” has been placed interestingly – as if
Dorian is referring to Harry as his God.
Character:
Dorian Gray
Character:
Sibyl Vane
Quote Analysis: Chapter Four
 “He says things that annoy me. He gives me good
advice.” (p.46)
 Dorian is beginning to consciously reject Basil and all signs of
‘goodness’ – rejecting Basil’s good advice.
Character:
Dorian Gray
Character:
Basil Hallward
Quote Analysis: Chapter Four
 “It was to tell him that he was engaged to be
married to Sibyl Vane.” (p.49)
 Note the speed of Dorian and Sibyl’s ‘romance’ – we are
introduced to her at the very start of the chapter, and by the
end she is engaged to Dorian! However, we never really
‘meet’ her – and as such, by the time we do, she is an idea,
not a person.
 Wilde chooses to end the chapter on this note, leaving no
reaction of Henry and simply letting the tension of the
statement speak for itself.
Character:
Dorian Gray
Character:
Sibyl Vane
Chapter Five
Summary of Events
 We meet Sybil for the first time, who is talking of how happy
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she is to her mother. Sybil’s mother reprimands her and tells
her she should concentrate on acting.
She says that she is in love with him.
Her mother encourages her – as long as he is rich.
Sybil’s brother, James Vane arrives.
James is revealed to be travelling to Australia to earn money.
James worries about Sybil and her involvement with ‘Prince
Charming’.
James says to his mother that if anyone harms Sybil, she will
hunt him down.
Points to note: Chapter Five
 Here is the first time we meet Sybil Vane, and see her outside of Dorian’s
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view. She is described as “foolish” and with childlike connotations.
Her mother is shown to be quite selfish and resourceful: not interested
in her marrying Dorian for love, but only for his wealth.
We are also introduced to James Vane: a character who will be
important later in the story. He acts as, rather than a fully-fledged
character, a projection of Dorian’s tortured conscience.
This chapter was not originally included in the first versions of The
Picture of Dorian Gray. Wilde added it later in the revisions. Without
this chapter, you would lose an understanding of what Sybil brings to the
table.
We would also not meet James Vane until he returns to avenge his
sister’s death, and placing him earlier in the story adds tension and acts
as foreshadowing.
Quote Analysis: Chapter Five
 “Mother, did you love my Father as I love Prince
Charming?” (page 51)
 The use of the phrase ‘Prince Charming’ repeated and her
childlike pleasure at her new love affair suggests that she is in
love with this ideal Prince Charming who will carry her away
to a new life: not Dorian himself. Dorian’s treatment of Sybil
is similar: seeing her as an actress playing many parts, not
loving Sybil herself.
Character:
Sibyl Vane
 “Sybil, however, was quite unconscious of the effect
she was producing.” (page 54)
 Here, Sybil is shown to be far more innocent than the other
characters: Henry, who watches carefully for signs of his
influence, and Dorian, who is beginning to become fascinated
by the same prospects. It is no wonder that Dorian refers to
her as being able to keep him from being evil later on: she is
foolish, but also innocent.
Character:
Sibyl Vane
Chapter Six
Summary of events
 Henry arrives at Basil’s house for dinner, and begins by telling him
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of Dorian’s plans for marriage with Sybil.
Basil is upset and laments this decision whilst Henry claims it will
be a fascinating study.
Dorian arrives and talks about how happy he is about his
engagement. Basil complains that he did not tell him, and let
Henry know.
Dorian tells of going to see her after the play and meeting Sybil
and agreeing to marry her.
Henry continues to discuss hedonism and giving into life’s true
pleasures.
Dorian and Henry go together to the theatre to see Sybil, and
Henry tells Basil he must follow behind.
Points to note about this chapter
 Chapter by chapter, the degree to which Basil is sidelined by
Dorian and Henry grows.
 Basil continues to insist that Dorian is kind and gentle, as if to
reassure himself that Henry has not influenced him.
Quote Analysis: Chapter Five
 “I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and
kissed Juliet on the mouth.” (page 63)
 Here, we see once again that Dorian’s adoration for Sybil is
the adoration of her many parts played: not the girl herself.
 He seems to focus on this as an achievement and a pleasure,
rather than an act of love.
Character:
Sibyl Vane
Character:
Dorian Gray
Quote Analysis: Chapter Five
 “She is better than good. She is beautiful.”
 Henry here suggests that her personality is irrelevant: and
that as long as she is as beautiful as Dorian, there is no cause
for concern over her personality.
Character:
Dorian Gray
Character:
Sybil Vane
Portrayal of
Women
Quote Analysis: Chapter Five
 “When the cab drew up at the theatre, it seemed to
him that he had grown years older.” (page 65)
 This shows how supremely being young and beautiful is
shown in Victorian society: whenever Wilde draws negative
connotations, he often does so through expressing ‘age’. Basil
here acts as a form of foreshadowing, showing what is to
come: feeling the seriousness of events that his friends seem
to ignore.
Character:
Basil Hallward
Chapter Seven
Summary of events
 They arrive at the Theatre, and Henry remarks how disgusting it is.
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Dorian says that Sybil’s beauty will make them forget it.
They watch the play, but Sybil acts poorly.
Henry tells him not to worry: as she is still beautiful.
Dorian stays while they leave, and goes backstage to see Sybil after
the show.
Sybil is amused by how terribly she acted, saying it was because
she now knows the reality of love, but Dorian, in a rage, tells her
she is worthless and that they are finished, and leaves.
Dorian goes home, and on viewing the portrait, for the first time
finds it altered.
Points to note in this chapter
 Henry continues to view Dorian’s involvement with Sybil as
but an experiment, and remains amused by it.
 Dorian, on being confronted with the real Sybil, and not
these many actress’ parts, finds her childish and annoying.
 Note how Wilde chooses to, instead of simply integrating the
words from the play into the text, or describing that she
spoke, change form and have the text laid out in the centre of
the page. This creates an emphasis on the separate states of
Sybil: the actress and the girl.
 This chapter marks Dorian’s first atrocity: and first change in
the portrait.
Quote Analysis: Chapter Seven
Character:
Sybil Vane
 “The curves of her throat were the curves of a white
lily. Her hands seemed to be made of cool ivory.”
(page 67)
 This emphasises Sybil’s innocence and beauty: and, when
compared with the depictions of her poor acting, creates a
contrast: she is beautiful, but altogether useless. This does not
concern Henry, but Dorian is distraught.
 The colour white and flowers here are used to emphasise
how innocent she is.
Motif: The Colour
White
Motif: Flowers
Portrayal of
Women
Quote Analysis: Chapter Seven
 “You have no idea what I have suffered.”
 We begin to see Dorian’s selfish, blaming side here:
whenever he is about to or has committed some terrible
atrocity, he speaks of what forces have ‘made’ him do it. This
begins to come into play here.
Character:
Dorian Gray
Quote Analysis: Chapter Seven
 “and lay there like a trampled flower.”
 The flower motif returns here: and Sybil goes from having all
the grace of a white lily to being ‘trampled’ by Dorian’s
words.
Character:
Dorian Gray
Character:
Sybil Vane
Motif: Flowers
Portrayal of
Women
Quote Analysis: Chapter Seven
 “One would have said there was a touch of cruelty
in the mouth. It was certainly strange.” (page 73)
 Dorian views the change in the painting with an almost
scientific interest that is rather like that of Henry’s: showing
how his influence has caused this change in him, to a degree.
Right after viewing the painting, he looks over at “one of
Lord Henry’s many presents to him.”
Character:
Dorian Gray
Motif: The
Portrait
Quote Analysis: Chapter Seven
 “He would go back to Sibyl Vane, make amends,
marry her, try to love her again.” (page 75)
 Here we see Dorian see Sybil as a way of ‘fixing’ his sins and
keeping him on the straight and narrow. He also notes the
need to stay away from Lord Henry: recognising this
influence at work.
 With her death in the following chapter, comes the death of
purity and innocence: is this why his plan fell through, or did
Dorian simply not really want to change?
Chapter Eight
Summary of events: Chapter Eight
 Dorian awakens after a wonderful sleep at one in the afternoon.
 He feels peaceful, but then remembers having seen the portrait
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alter the previous night.
He looks at the portrait and, horrified, vows again that he should
make amends to Sybil Vane and marry her.
Lord Henry comes to visit and tells him Sybil has died.
Dorian concludes that this is his fault, but is numb rather than
horrified.
Henry tells him to appreciate Sybil’s suicide as an act of romance
and to move on.
Dorian agrees and resolves to go to the Opera with Henry that
night.
Points to note in this Chapter
 We see how self-centred Dorian is; and how much Dorian
shifts the blame of his faults on to other people in this
chapter especially.
 He has committed a terrible atrocity; and recognises this, but
does not act afraid.
 Henry focuses on how terrible this will look to everyone else
rather than the horrible thing itself.
Quote Analysis – Chapter Eight
 “One thing, however, he felt that it had done for him. It had
made him conscious how unjust, how cruel he had been to
Sybil Vane. It was not too late to make reparation for that.
She could still be his wife. His unreal and selfish love would
yield to some higher influence.” (page 78)
 The emphasis that Wilde places here on it ‘not being too late’
to make reparation is quickly brushed aside by Sybil’s death.
 Dorian here, perceives Sybil as being able to ‘keep him good’.
(“You don’t know the danger I am in, and there is nothing to keep me
straight.” ) After her death, he seems to give up, making Sybil
another tool for him to blame his wrongdoings on.
Character:
Dorian Gray
Character:
Sybil Vane
Motif: The
Portrait
Quote Analysis – Chapter Eight
 “But I am glad you don’t think I am heartless.”
 Dorian cares not here whether he is heartless or not: only for
Henry’s perception of it. This illustrates how superficial he is
and, furthermore, the influence Henry has over him as a
character.
Superficial
Nature of
Society
Quote Analysis – Chapter Eight
 “It was a marvellous experience. That is all. I
wonder if life still has in store for me anything as
marvellous.”
 Dorian is happy to resign himself to the death of this girl – as
just an almost pleasurable ‘experience’. After Henry has
spoken to him, all caring about Sybil’s actual death is
vanished, and he looks upon it with the same scientific
interest that Henry looks upon tragedies with.
Quote Analysis – Chapter Eight
 “For there would be a real pleasure in watching it.”
 COMPARE WITH:
 “And the portrait that Basil Hallward had painted
of him would be a guide to him through life.”
 After Sybil’s tragic death, Dorian resigns himself to sin, and
focuses on the ‘pleasure’ watching the portrait will bring:
Henry has been able to make him feel absolved of sin and
turn him over to the idea of engaging in sin for pleasure.
Motif: The
Portrait
Chapter 9
Summary of events
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Basil comes to visit Dorian the following morning.
He expresses concern for the tragic affair; Sybil, her mother, and Dorian himself, and asks if Dorian
went to see the mother, noting that he thought of doing so himself.
Dorian states that he was at the Opera with Henry.
Basil is shocked, and asked how he could do that when Sybil lay dead.
Dorian says that his feelings for Sybil are in the past.
Basil puts down his cold exterior to Henry’s influence, and says he wants the Dorian he used to
paint back. He is shocked by the news that Sybil did, indeed, kill herself.
Dorian says this is not tragic and proceeds to make excuses for his actions and talk of hedonism.
Basil says he must sit for him again sometime, but Dorian says he will never sit for Basil again.
Basil then says he want to see the picture as he needs to exhibit it, but Dorian refuses.
Dorian asks, threateningly, why Basil used to never want to exhibit the picture.
Basil changes the subject and says that he will not press the matter; Dorian’s friendship is more
important.
Dorian presses the issue, and Basil explains that he did not want to exhibit the portrait for fear it
reveal his obsession with Dorian. Now, however, he believes that the portrait will not reveal him.
Basil asks him again to sit for him, and Dorian refuses. Dorian decides he must hide the portrait.
Points to note in this chapter
 Basil is always later to the scene than Henry: if, perhaps, he had come
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sooner, Dorian’s attitude may have been different.
Dorian initially thinks the ‘thing’ that Basil sees in the portrait was
Dorian’s cruelty, but later sees that it is merely Basil’s strange adoration
for him, and is relieved.
There are several sentences cut in revisions from this chapter. Originally,
included in Basil’s confession, were the following sentences:
“It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of
feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I have never loved
a woman”
“I quite admit that I adored you madly, extravagantly, absurdly.”
These paragraphs were quoted in the cross-examination of Wilde for his
homosexuality.
Although Basil’s confession comes across as homoerotic still, this was
even more notable in the original versions of the text.
Quote Analysis – Chapter Nine
 “Basil,” he said, coming over quite close, and
looking him straight in the face.
 Here we begin to see Dorian be threatening: in his
desperation to conceal his secret, he has altered and become
a threatening figure who is willing to lie or cause pain to
protect himself.
Character:
Dorian Gray
Quote Analysis – Chapter Nine
 “I worshipped you. I grew jealous of everyone to
whom you spoke.” (page 92)
 Basil’s description of Dorian comes across as extremely
homoerotic: and even more so, when you read some things
that were removed from the text. His wild adoration of
Dorian crosses into the path of romance.
Character:
Dorian Gray
Character:
Basil Hallward
Quote Analysis – Chapter Nine
 “There seemed to him something tragic in a
friendship so coloured by romance.”
 Dorian recognises Basil’s ‘romance’ with him – and yet views
it with an interest of science an art, rather than in a personal
way.
Character:
Dorian Gray
Character:
Basil Hallward
Chapter 10
Summary of events
 Doran asks the servants for the keys to the old schoolroom, where he
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wants to hide the portrait.
He muses that Basil could have ‘saved’ him – and kept him on the
straight and narrow, but it was too late now.
He calls on some frame-makers to come and take the portrait upstairs
for him.
He goes and reads a piece in the paper about the inquest.
He attempts to absolve himself of blame for Sybil’s death.
He finds Henry has sent him a yellow-bound book: which at the time
meant a controversial book, and begins to read it with interest. This
novel is widely believed to be based upon ‘Against The Grain’.
This novel acts as a guide for the journey Dorian goes upon: descending
into pleasure and hedonism.
Dorian allows the book to influence him: think of the preface’s ‘there is
no such thing as an immoral book’.
Points to note about this chapter
 Wilde’s choice to change the form of the piece as Dorian
reads the inquest of Sybil Vane and present the inquest,
instead of having the narrator describe it, allows the reader to
experience this along with Dorian.
Quote Analysis – Chapter Ten
 “going over the contents of her bunch with
tremulously uncertain hands.” (page 94)
 Here we see that Dorian begins to make his servants nervous
– indicating the implications of the changes in his morality on
his everyday life.
Quote Analysis – Chapter Ten
 “Basil would have helped him to resist Lord Henry’s
influence.” (page 96)
 Once again, Dorian shifts the blame of his actions on to
someone else, seeing it as other people’s responsibility to
keep him from doing evil things. Compared with his
treatment of Sybil, there is a considerable likeness here: two
people who have loved Dorian and that he rejected, and then
subsequently concluded they should have kept him from
being evil.
Quote Analysis – Chapter Ten
 “The love that he bore him – for it was really love – had
nothing in it that was not noble and intellectual.”
 Compare the implications of this with this quote from Oscar
Wilde’s trial: “It is in this century misunderstood, so much misunderstood
that it may be described as "the love that dare not speak its name," and on
that account of it I am placed where I am now. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is
the noblest form of affection.There is nothing unnatural about it. It is
intellectual, and it repeatedly exists between an older and a younger man,
when the older man has intellect, and the younger man has all the joy,
hope and glamour of life before him.That it should be so, the world does
not understand.The world mocks at it, and sometimes puts one in the
pillory for it.
Quote Analysis – Chapter Ten
 “There was something about Dorian that charmed
everyone. It was a pleasure even to see him.”
 Dorian is seen as a work of art; and all in society will happily
do what he asks simply because he is beautiful.
Superficial
Nature of
Society
Supremacy of
Youth and
Beauty
Chapter Eleven
Summary of Events
 This chapter serves as a depiction of Dorian’s descent into
sensuality and hedonism.
 His character begins to change, and he stays young over the
years to come. People in society gossip about his terrible
behaviour. Dorian is pleased by the difference between his
beauty and his soul.
 He is fascinated by the painting: but fears that someone will
steal it.
Points to note about this chapter
 Wilde chooses to condense the passing of time into one small
chapter and convey its effects. We need this in order to show
Dorian’s descent into sin in a noticeable format.
 This chapter is rife with references to art, history and
mythology.
Quote Analysis – Chapter Eleven
 “For years, Dorian Gray could not free himself from
the influence of this book. Or perhaps it would be
more accurate to say that he never sought to free
himself from it.” (page 102)
 The narrator usually takes on the voice of whoever is
speaking and remains within their thoughts and opinions.
However, here we see the narrative voice be decidedly free of
neutrality, and note Dorian’s failures and imperfections
explicitly.
 It also ties into the epigram in the preface: “There is no such
thing as an immoral book.”
Narrative
Voice
Motif: The YellowBound Book
Character:
Dorian Gray
Quote Analysis – Chapter Eleven
 “He never knew – never, indeed, had any cause to
know – that somewhat grotesque dread of mirrors
that came upon the Parisian so early in his life.” (page
102)
 Dorian finds solace in the idea that his beauty will never
decay – and with this, remains happy with the levels of sin he
commits in every day life, focused on retaining this beauty.
Character:
Dorian Gray
Motif: The YellowBound Book
Quote Analysis – Chapter Eleven
 “Wondering sometimes which were the more
horrible, the signs of sin or the signs of age.”
 Dorian here shows how superior he believes Youth and
Beauty to be.
Quote Analysis – Chapter Eleven
 “and find in the spiritualising of the senses its highest
realisation.”
 Dorian has followed Henry’s advice and devoted his life to
finding new pleasures: hedonism. Henry, himself, talks
largely of the beauty of Hedonism, but does not engage in it
to the decree Dorian does. This shows the amount of
influence Henry has over Dorian.
Character:
Dorian Gray
Character:
Henry Wooton
Chapter Twelve
Summary of events
 Dorian is going home and encounters Basil Hallward, who had just
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been attempting to see him.
Basil is on his way to Paris, and is desperate to speak to Dorian
before he leaves.
He talks of the considerable gossip about Dorian’s evil, but says
that he does not believe it, as sin writes itself across a man’s face.
He notes that many of Dorian’s friendships end badly, and that he
should use his influence for good.
Dorian says he will show Basil his soul, which Basil says is
blasphemous. Dorian says that he will show him, then, the diary of
his life, which is sure to answer Basil’s questions.
Points to note: Chapter Twelve
 Note the Gothic elements of this chapter: “the night was cold
and foggy”. This sets the sinister tone for this, and the
following chapter.
Quote Analysis – Chapter Twelve
 “A strange sense of fear, for which he could not
account, came over him.” (page 117)
 Dorian continues to make excuses for his behaviour – and
here he sees Basil, whom he had referred to as able to keep
him good. It is as if he fears Basil’s good influence, and makes
these continuing excuses to avoid it.
Character:
Dorian Gray
 “At least, I can’t believe them when I see you. Sin is
a thing that writes itself across a man’s face.”
 Basil here believes that Dorian cannot possibly be evil:
because he looks as beautiful as he ever did. This is part of
one of the overarching challenges to society that Wilde
presents in this novel: that a man should look beautiful, does
not mean he is so.
Quote Analysis – Chapter Twelve
 “You will not have to read long.”
 This serves as foreshadowing for the events of the next
chapter: Dorian’s wording portrays him as someone sinister
and unkind: and Basil will not have to be there long because
of what is to occur.
Character:
Dorian Gray
Chapter 13
Summary of events
 Dorian takes Basil upstairs to see the painting: and Basil views it
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with horror, knowing it is his own work.
He asks how this is possible and Dorian reminds him of the wish
he made on the day it was painted.
Basil begs Dorian to kneel with him and pray for forgiveness: but
Dorian says it is too late for this.
Dorian, filled with anger at the painting, grabs a knife and stabs
Basil, killing him.
Dorian goes out and returns back in, giving the impression to his
servant that he has been out all night.
The servant says that Basil was waiting for him, and Dorian says he
is sorry to have missed him.
He notes that he needs to find Alan Campbell.
Points to note about this chapter
 There are increasingly gothic descriptions of the house in this
chapter e.g. “the lamp cast fantastic shadows.” As Dorian
proceeds further into sinful ways, the novel becomes
increasingly more gothic to reflect this.
 Consider this story’s connotations to the old play ‘Dr
Faustuss’. In this play, Faust trades his soul for all the
knowledge in the world: selling it to the devil. Is Dorian
doing the same? There are similar religious links in this
chapter to those in Doctor Faustuss.
Quote Analysis – Chapter 13
Character:
Sybil Vane
 “He had taken the flower out of his coat, and was
smelling it, or pretending to do so.” (page 124)
 Here, the motif of the flowers representing innocence
reappears. Dorian plays with it here, as if tossing innocence
between his hand: which could be interpreted as a metaphor
for his treatment of Basil, especially since it is followed with
him “crushing the flower in his hand” right before he murders
Basil. This is something Dorian often does in the book; he did
the same with Sybil Vane.
Character:
Dorian Gray
Motif: Flowers
Character:
Basil Hallward
Quote Analysis – Chapter 13
 “Though your sins be as scarlet, I will make them white
as snow?” (page 125)
 Basil, in desperation, turns to religion to try and redeem himself
and Dorian. Dorian rejects this. Once again, the colour white
appears as a representation of innocence.
 This would be important in the context of Victorian life: religion
was extremely important. Wilde may have been trying to go
against some of the controversy of this book by making ties to
religion.
 There is also a hint of ‘scarlet’ meaning evil, which is interesting
when you consider Dorian’s “scarlet” lips – possibly a touch of evil
in him that Henry managed to influence to consume him.
Motif: The Colour
White
Character:
Dorian Gray
Character:
Basil Hallward
Quote Analysis – Chapter 13
 “The thing was still seated in the chair” (page 126)
 The fact that Dorian refers to Basil’s dead body as ‘the thing’
de-humanises Basil: he continues to do this throughout this
chapter and those subsequent.
 It is as if Dorian is distancing himself from events and
ignoring his sin.
Character:
Dorian Gray
Chapter 14
Summary of events
 Dorian awakes after a peaceful sleep.
 He thinks of “all that he had suffered” the previous night and becomes
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upset.
He summons Alan Campbell, and whilst waiting, reads a set of poems
about Venice.
Campbell arrives, noting that he never intended to visit Dorian again,
suggesting more of what Basil has told him: about his friendships with
young men ending horribly.
Dorian tells him there is a dead man upstairs and asks him to help get rid
of the body.
Alan refuses. Dorian confesses it was murder and asks him again.
Alan is shocked and refuses again. Dorian then writes on a piece of
paper Alan’s secret and passes it to him, threatening him.
Alan reluctantly follows Dorian’s instructions.
Points to note in this chapter
 The fact that we do not know what is written on the paper
adds to the sense of mystery surrounding Dorian, and makes
it threatening: Alan fears the scandal of society more than
anything else.
 Dorian continues to de-humanise Basil and ignore that it was
him that murdered him, shifting the blame of the event.
 There is something horrible in Dorian’s insistence on the
eradication of Basil’s body: in that time, it was believed that
you had to be buried on consecrated (church-owned) ground
to go to heaven. Basil does not get this luxury.
Quote Analysis – Chapter 14
 “Dorian was sleeping quite peacefully, lying on his
right side.” (page 128)
 This mirrors what happened after he rejected Sybil: Dorian
awakes from a peaceful sleep, feeling all his sins washed away
and refreshed from the night, and remaining undisturbed.
Character:
Dorian Gray
Quote Analysis – Chapter 14
 “The mellow November sun came streaming into
the room.” (page 129)
 Here we have a direct contrast with the scene of the murder
and its gothic elements. Furthermore, as soon as Dorian
begins to think of what happened, the language use changes
to that of the gothic: “with silent bloodstained feet.”
Character:
Dorian Gray
Quote Analysis – Chapter 14
 “He winced at the memory of all that he had suffered, and for a moment
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that same curious feeling of loathing for Basil Hallward that had made him
kill him, came back to him, and he grew cold with passion. The dead man
was still sitting there, too, and in the sunlight now.” (page 129)
Once again we see Dorian shift the blame on to some external force that ‘made’ him kill
him – the portrait, the book, Henry himself, or as he describes it in the last chapter
“some red star” that came too close to Earth – Dorian wants to blame anyone but
himself. Furthermore, he dehumanises Basil again here, calling him the ‘dead man’.
His irritation at him sitting in the sunlight ties into the Gothic: Dorian cannot bear the
idea of his sin being shown in the light of day: he wants to hide it, just as he fiercely hides
the portrait: his sins are only horrible once they are seen.
Compare this with ideas of the book “Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde” – just as in this book,
Dorian has a darker side in the night, away from the eyes of society, and an alternate
persona in the day, in the public eye.
This plays into many ideas that were present in the Victorian era. Killers such as “Jack
The Ripper” were very much sensationalised by the media: this was an important topic
for the Victorians.
Character:
Dorian Gray
Quote Analysis – Chapter 14
 “If you don’t help me, I will send it. If you don’t
help me, I must send it.” (page 136)
 Here we see Dorian engaging in conscious manipulation of
Alan: and it is implied in their discussion and a description of
their previous relationship that he was to Alan as Henry was
to him.
Character:
Dorian Gray
Character:
Alan Campbell
Quote Analysis – Chapter 14
 “In fact, I don’t want any white ones.” (page 137)
 Here, Dorian speaks to his servant and states he wants no
white flowers at all in his house: this motif returns: he wants
as few reminders of innocence as possible, and wants only to
bask in the beauty of these flowers as something to crush.
Character:
Dorian Gray
Motif: Flowers
Chapter 15
Summary of events
 Dorian, “exquisitely dressed”, goes to Lady Narborough’s to dine
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with her. He is “wildly excited” in the knowledge of his murder
and the separatism of his private and public life.
He is sorry for having come, until he is told Henry will be there.
Henry and Lady Narborough debate, Narborough displaying
extreme wit and challenging the portrayal of women throughout
this book.
Henry notes that Dorian is not himself, but Dorian insists he is
fine.
He goes home and burns Basil’s clothing.
He then goes out and gets a driver to take him to a mysterious
address.
Points to note in this chapter
 Why has Wilde chosen to make a point of him burning Basil’s
clothes – and placed this after the public setting of Lady
Narborough, rather than having him do so immediately?
 This emphasises the idea of Dorian’s separate private and
personal life – and he will not be free of his guilt until every
piece of evidence that could unmask him is gone.
 The majority of women in the book up until now have been
portrayed in a frivolous manner: Lady Narborough seems to
exist almost solely to challenge the view of women in the
book.
Quote Analysis – Chapter 15
 “Certainly no one looking at Dorian Gray that night
could have believed that he had passed through a
tragedy as horrible as any tragedy of our age. Those
finely-shaped fingers could never have clutched a knife
for sin, nor those smiling lips have cried out on God and
goodness. He himself could not help wondering at the
calm of his demeanor, and for a moment felt keenly the
terrible pleasure of a double life.” (page 139)
 Here we see one of many aesthetic descriptions of Dorian that
juxtapose the reality of his life. Society sees Dorian in an idealistic
manner because of his appearance. Furthermore, Wilde uses
juxtaposition to describe Dorian’s excitement in his double life in
another reference that seems parallel to the Gothic novel Dr Jekyll
& Mr Hyde
Supremacy of
Character:
Dorian Gray
Youth and
Beauty
Quote Analysis – Chapter 15
 “Women love us for our defects.” ... “If we women
did not love you for your defects, where would you
be?” (page 142)
 Here we finally get a contradiction of Wilde’s seemingly
critical view of women in this novel earlier on; the character
of Lady Narborough challenges Henry’s ideas on women
through her strength and wit.
Character:
Henry Wooton
Character:
Lady
Narborough
Quote Analysis – Chapter 15
 “You are made to be good – you look so good. I
must find you a nice wife.” (page 143)
 And yet, even Lady Narborough herself here views women as
the perfect ‘accessory’ to Dorian’s beauty: a necessity to their
life. However, the superficiality of this is realised.
 She also notes that Dorian must be good: because he looks so
good, emphasis of how superficial society is.
Character:
Dorian Gray
Character:
Lady
Narborough
Supremacy of
Youth and
Beauty
Chapter 16
Summary of events
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Dorian gets the driver to take him to an opium den.
He shows signs of paranoia, wondering if he is being followed.
He sees Adrian Singleton at the opium den, a man he was once friends with.
He seems to be in ruin and depressed.
Dorian says that Adrian should write to him if he wants something and leaves.
A woman calls the name Sybil used to call him after him: “Prince Charming.”
Dorian yells at her not to call him that and leaves the den.
James hears the call and stirs, and chases Dorian outside. He threatens him with death for his
actions towards his sister.
Dorian is desperate, and then thinks of something. He asks James how many years it has been since
his sister’s death.
James asks what this matters, but eventually reveals it has been eighteen years.
Dorian asks him to look at his face and how young he is.
James is shocked, and apologises profusely for his wrongdoings, thinking that Dorian must be
innocent due to his youthful appearance.
The woman asks why he didn’t kill him, and swears that Dorian is Prince Charming.
James Vane chases after Dorian again, but he is gone.
Points to note in this chapter
 James Vane is more of a caricature of a tortured conscience
than an actual character: he serves more function to the plot
than as an actual character, giving Dorian a reason for his
paranoia and showing the effect of his actions on the world.
 This chapter is again very gothic in its descriptions.
 The Opium Dens are a recurring motif – possibly for
Dorian’s tortured conscience.
Quote Analysis – Chapter 16
 “To cure the soul by the means of the senses, and the
senses by the means of the soul.” (page 146)
 Dorian here speaks of Hedonism again – of giving into
pleasure as a higher goal. As he descends further into sinful
acts, his hedonism plunges deeper. The words he thinks are a
direct quote of what Lord Henry says in the first chapter,
showing the huge influence Henry has had over his life.
Character:
Dorian Gray
Quote Analysis – Chapter 16
 “As Dorian hurried up its three rickety steps, the
heavy odour of opium met him.” (page 148)
 The Opium Dens could be argued to be a motif for Dorian’s
tortured conscience: firstly, he seeks them out to relieve
himself of the negative feelings about his sin, and secondly,
the descriptions of opium dens mirror the feelings of his
mind.
Character:
Dorian Gray
Motif: The Opium
Dens
Chapter Seventeen
Summary of events
 It is a week later and Dorian is in polite society talking to
women and Lord Henry.
 Henry argues with the duchess and Dorian.
 Dorian leaves briefly, and Henry accuses the Duchess of
flirting with him, noting that she has been burned before.
 Dorian, while out in the other room, faints, having seen the
face of James Vane at the window.
Points to note about this chapter
 The Duchess flirting with Dorian shows what an influence he
still has over people in society and how drawn people are to
him.
 Wilde chooses to place Dorian in polite society right before
he sees James Vane again: creating the impression that his
tortured conscience now not only consumes his dark, gothic
and second life but the rest of his life too.
Chapter 18
Summary of events
 Dorian spends the whole of the next day in his house, fearing James Vane.
 He then goes out with Geoffery to go shooting.
 Geoffery goes to shoot a hare, but Dorian cries out to stop as it is so beautiful
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and graceful.
Geoffery accidentally shoots a man in the bushes, who he mistakes for a beater:
someone employed to make sure hunting goes smoothly.
He complains that it has spoiled his shooting for the day.
Henry appears and ushers Dorian away. Dorian expresses paranoia of being
followed and men waiting for him.
A man comes round to see Dorian at his house, stating that some have said he
may be able to identify the man. He says the man is a sailor, and was carrying a
gun.
Dorian is astounded and goes straight away to ride to see if the man is James
Vane.
He is overjoyed to find that it is, astounded at the fact that he is at last safe.
Points to note about this chapter
 This chapter focuses on how superficial society is: and how
more and more, Dorian’s tortured conscience is creeping
into his private life.
Quote Analysis – Chapter 18
 “but there was something in the animal’s grace of
movement that strangely charmed Dorian Gray, and
he cried out at once, “Don’t shoot it, Geoffery. Let it
live.” (page 159)
 Dorian is charmed by the aesthetic beauty of the rabbit:
showing how highly he places beauty even still.
Character:
Dorian Gray
Quote Analysis – Chapter 18
 “Why on earth don’t you keep your men back?
Spoiled my shooting for the day.” AND “It would not
look well to go on.” (page 160)
 Both Geoffery, a character seemingly introduced simply to be
superficial in this situation, and Henry, focus on the effects of
this on Geoffery and how this must look, as opposed to any
concern over the man they have killed!
Quote Analysis – Chapter 18
 “I should like to know someone who had
committed a real murder.” (page 162)
 Henry remarks that he would like to know someone who had
actually committed a murder: this is use of dramatic irony
as the audience and Dorian know that he does, in fact know
someone who has committed a murder! This acts as
foreshadowing for the eventual confession Dorian will make
and the conclusion of the novel.
Quote Analysis – Chapter 18
 “his eyes were full of tears, for he knew he was safe.”
(page 165)
 What does this quote say about Dorian as a character?
Usually, when one finds that someone is dead, even if they
hated them, they do not rejoice in their death. Dorian is
furthermore dehumanising James as “the thing” – James is
merely a symbol of all that has haunted him as Dorian grows
further and further from reality.
Character:
Dorian Gray
Character:
James Vane
Chapter Nineteen
Summary of Events
 Dorian is with Henry in his house. The two discuss Sybil, and a girl
Dorian had been consorting with in a village. Dorian says that he
decided that he would not hurt her and left her, wanting to leave
her “as flower like” and innocent as he found her.
 Henry speaks to him of his beauty and wonder and asks for his
secret: how has he kept his youth? He says that the world will
always worship Dorian, as he is beautiful.
 Dorian suggests to Henry that he murdered Basil, who does not
believe him.
 Dorian states that from now on, he will be good, and references
the book that Henry gave him a while ago as ‘poisoning’ him.
Harry disagrees, saying the book did not influence him.
Points to note in this chapter
 Note the frequent homoeroticism in the way Harry speaks to
Dorian.
 This conversation serves as Dorian’s final ‘attempt’ to be
good – an attempt vainly tries, with vauge mirrors of what he
did to Sybil and still a continual shift of blame. It is as if
Dorian knows his time is running out.
Quote Analysis – Chapter 19
 “I see him lying now on his back under those dull-
green waters with the heavy barges floating over
him, and long weeds catching in his hair.” (page 169)
 Henry speaks of Basil in a manner akin to Shakespeare’s
‘Ophelia’ – a character who killed herself after believing that
Hamlet did not love her anymore. Interestingly, he refers to
Hetty, the girl Dorian had been consorting with, in the same
fashion before: showing he is quite aware of the possible love
Basil had for Dorian.
Character:
Basil Hallward
Quote Analysis – Chapter 19
 “You really are wonderful, Dorian. You have never
looked more charming than you do tonight. You
remind me of the day I saw you first.” (page 171)
 Here, again, Henry’s language sounds like that of an old
married couple recollecting a first meeting, showing the
homoerotic tones of this story.
Character:
Henry Wooton
Quote Analysis – Chapter 19
 “The books that the world calls immoral are books
that show the world its own shame.” (page 172)
 This is an echo of Oscar Wilde’s epigram in the preface.
“There is no such thing as an immoral book.”
 The book is more something for Dorian to project his
wrongdoings on than an actual cause of his sin.
Motif: The Yellowbound book
Chapter 20
Summary of events
 Dorian goes home: and looks in a mirror given to him by Henry,
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noting the “white-limbed cupids” who “laughed round it as of old.”
He wonders if the signs of sin have gone away at his slight
determination to be good: his final, desperate bid.
He goes upstairs to find the portrait as ugly as ever.
He wonders if in order to be absolved of sin, he must confess.
He resolves to destroy the portrait. However, when he does so, he
himself dies instead.
His servants go upstairs eventually after hearing the scream, and
find an old man dead on the ground, and the portrait impeccable,
in all its former glory.
Points to note in this chapter
 Dorian hoped that a tiny change in his behaviour – something
as simple as not corrupting this one girl and ‘resolving to be
good’ would cure the portrait. However, he only hoped that
it would do so and acted out of selfishness.
 He recollects many of the themes that have run throughout
this book: influence, purity, beauty. Wilde ties all these
together in one final arc, structuring the story.
Quote Analysis – Chapter Twenty
 “Nor, indeed, was it the death of Basil Hallward that weighed
most upon his mind. It was the living death of his own soul
that troubled him. Basil had painted the portrait that marred
his own life. He could not forgive him that. It was the portrait
that had done everything. Basil had said things to him that
were unbearable, and that he had yet borne with patience.
The murder had been simply the madness of a moment. As for
Alan Campbell, his suicide had been his own act. He had
chosen to do it. It was nothing to him.” (page 175)
 For all Dorian’s talk of “becoming good,” he still only acted selfishly.
Here, we see him continue to shove aside all blame and want only to be
good so that he will not have to see his sin visibly.
Character:
Dorian Gray
Motif: The
Portrait
Quote Analysis – Chapter Twenty
 “Yes, it had been conscience. He would destroy it.”
(page 176)
 Dorian’s final act is to; with all knowledge known, destroy
his conscience. In doing so, his sin and evil finally destroys
him at last.
Character:
Dorian Gray
Motif: The
Portrait
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