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    displays Dorian’s decision to choose beauty over his innocence is when Dorian brings his friend Basil to the room where he keeps his portrait. He shows Basil the portrait and how hideous it has become despite Dorian’s unchanged appearance. Basil then realizes that the painting was a work of his own and then he asks how it has become that way. Dorian explains that gave up his soul for eternal beauty. Basil then tries to convince Dorian to pray for forgiveness because he believes that the painting is

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    born wealthy and had grown up handsome‚ honorable‚ and distinguished‚ and yet‚ he committed secret act of which he was thoroughly ashamed; while‚ Dorian Gray‚ is a handsome young man in which he captures the imagination of Basil Hallward and became sinful‚ he decided to kill Basil when he chooses to see the portrait that reveals the evil side of Dorian. They both have similar features. Edward Hyde is the evil side of Dr. Jekyll and he is

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    Henry Wotton: the high-society intellectual who corrupts Dorian. He is a nobleman and a close friend of Basil Hallward. He is witty‚ always criticizing the moralism and hypocrisy of Victorian society. He plays a important role in Dorian’s development. Basil Hallward: an artist and a friend of Lord Henry. Basil becomes obsessed with Dorian after meeting him at a party. Dorian also helps Basil to paints the portrait of Dorian which is his masterpiece. He wants Dorian to stay youthful and beautiful

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    Basil used the promised troops that Vladimir sent to him to end the civil war in his favour. The scholars still debate what happened next‚ it can be stated that Vladimir did attack the Byzantine city of Cherson in the Crimea. It was from here that Vladimir demanded that Basil send him his promised bride. It is a questionable matter as the matter took place after the agreements‚ Vladimir may have even attempted to force Basil to keep his word‚ but the evidence is inconclusive. Indeed‚ Basil was no

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    The matrix shows that Market Development is defined as taking existing products into new markets. Wal-Mart’s expansion into Guatemala and other Central American countries is an example of this strategy. Diversification strategy is used by LG to enter the American appliance market or Japan’s Kirin holdings which bought Australia’s leading milk producer. Diversification id developing new products for new markets. South Korea’s LG Electronics has created new products for other American home appliance

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    author’s use of the color white. White stands for innocence and nothingness‚ as it does when Dorian’s first introduced. It demonstrates the pureness of Dorian’s boyhood that Lord Henry finds so interesting. Basil calls on “whiteness” when he finds that Dorian has given up his innocence‚ and‚ as Basil can do nothing but look in horror at the once beautiful portrait now ruined‚ he quotes a verse from the Book of Isaiah: “Though your sins be as scarlet‚ yet I will make them as white as snow.” Unfortunately

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    The Picture of Dorian Gray: Novel Summary: Chapters 13-15 inShare Summary They go upstairs and Dorian shows Basil the picture. Basil is horrified. He wonders who has made the hideous changes. Why has the painting altered? Dorian explains what has happened‚ and Basil‚ shocked‚ says that Dorian must be even worse than his enemies say he is. He is deeply upset and urges Dorian to pray. Dorian says it is too late. Feeling a sudden rush of hatred for the painter‚ he picks up a knife

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    artist named Basil Hallward sees a young‚ wealthy and beautiful man named Dorian Gray. Basil is so fascinated by him that he creates a portrait of Dorian. Dorian then becomes obsessed with the beauty of himself‚ which then causes him to by no means lose it. Dorian first realizes that he will lose his beauty when he led Sibyl Vane to commit suicide. After the death of Sibyl‚ Dorian starts to notice the changing in his portrait. Characters that play roles in Dorian’s downfall would be Basil‚ Lord Henry

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    Eyre‚ Doctor Jekyll of Robert Louis Stephenson’s The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde‚ and Basil Hallward‚ of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian

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    faces and may appear in any shape or form in which he chooses making it impossible to determine who he will influence next (Kulik‚195-220). Lord Henry’s interest in Dorian spawned from Basil’s obsession with the boy. Lord Henry could not influence Basil with his

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