The Picture of Dorian Gray Vocabulary List 1 (Q2) Precis (noun): Make summary of. "I know she goes in for giving a rapid precis of all her guests." (Pg. 14) Ravelled (verb): To tangle or entangle. ""How horribly unjust of you!" cried Lord Henry‚ tilting his hat back and looking up at the little clouds that‚ like ravelled skeins of glossy white silk‚ were drifting across the hollowed turquoise of the summer sky." (Pg. 15) Candour (noun): The state or quality of being frank‚ open‚ and sincere
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Dorian Gray Passage: Literary Analysis In this scene‚ Wilde creates a threatening atmosphere as he describes Dorian heading to the Opium House at night‚ a place that represents his sins. Dorian’s carriage “jerks” into a “dark” area‚ the sudden movement suggesting that the horse is instinctively nervous or scared. And the “low roofs and jagged chimney-stacks” that looked like “black masts” shrouded by a mist of “ghostly sails” paint a nightmarish image of hostility due to harsh words like jagged
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controversial and‚ at times‚ hedonistic views concerning conventional notions of truth. When Lord Henry first meets Dorian Grey‚ he instantly notices the candour of youth and all of youth’s passionate purity within him (Wilde 12). Finding these qualities incredibly enticing‚ Henry quickly subjects Dorian to his philosophical opinions concerning appearance and pleasure. Upon finding Dorian burying his face in lilac blossoms and drinking in their perfume as if it had been wine‚ he informs
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Reading the novel ’’The Picture of Dorian Gray’’ by Oscar Wild we have found the following types of paragraphs: description‚ narrative‚ persuasive‚ informative‚ definition‚ classification. He used these types of paragraphs to make more interesting and colorful his work. Further we give some examples which contain the types of paragraphs described in the theoretical part of diploma paper. We have found 3 examples with descriptive paragraphs‚ 23 examples with narrative paragraphs‚ 15 examples with
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Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray is just the sort of book that made Victorian England shiver. This decadent masterpiece is anything but a vehicle for the propagation of middle-class morality. We have in Wilde the ultimate aesthete‚ a disciple of Walter Pater‚ a dandy who in his personal life seems to have lived out Pater’s quiet injunction to "burn with that hard‚ gemlike flame" in experiencing art and‚ no doubt‚ other things. How could Wilde’s book‚ given its affinities with the age’s decadent
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Prometheus and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray‚ there are obvious monsters: the creation in Shelley’s work and Dorian Gray in Wilde’s. Frankenstein’s creation is markedly unusual and deformed‚ and Dorian Gray is a cruel and wicked person. These two‚ however‚ are not the only monsters. What makes a monster isn’t always evident to the observer. David Schmid‚ associate professor in the Department of English at the University
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Introduction………………………………………………………………………...3 Part 1. Oscar Wild – the novelist of the England…………………………………..5 1.1. Literary works of O. Wild……………………………………...……………...6 1.2. The novel ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ and its significance…………………9 1. 3. Aestheticism in the novel …………………………………………………...10 Part 2. Lexical and syntactical stylistic devices used in the novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by O. Wild…………………………………………………………14 2.1. Phonetic stylistic devices……………………………………………………..14 2.2. Lexical expressive means and stylistic devices………………………………15
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That is why not only statespersons‚ but also common people were anxious about the outcome of the international treaties. In the movie‚ for example‚ the Butler and his Lord are worry about the coming meeting. In fact‚ Mr. Stevens faces the event to such an extent that he tries to convey his worries to the staff so as to they do their best during this critical encounter. That is to
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know the person we need to look to the inside into the soul. This is the place where the real beauty and ugliness are hidden. The notion of inner and outer beauty is perfectly presented in the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray’ by Oscar Wilde. The story described in this book shows how the external attractiveness influences people’s behavior and corrupts the inner beauty. The plot situated in the XIX England perfectly describes the higher class of this period. Shallow and two-faced society
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characterized as a gloomy‚ horror story; there is more to the notion than simply this. The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde. Having first appeared in 1890 it was edited by Wilde and published in 1891. Given the time in which book was published it is considered to be part of the Gothic revival at the time. Critic‚ Kenneth Womack concurs with this. The Picture of Dorian Gray is considered by both readers and critics alike to be a great work of classic gothic horror
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