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The Picture of Dorian Gray group held a Google Meet meeting today at 17:00 CET with the students responsible for web 0.2 tools to clarify task distribution.

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Task distribution chart

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On February 16, 2025, at 12:10 CET, Vize Anadolu Lisesi, as a participating group from Türkiye, held an online meeting via Google Meet. The meeting was coordinated by Vize Anadolu Lisesi’s English teacher, Halime Can, and focused on informing students about their assigned tasks within the project. Additionally, the evaluation of the first book presentation of our three book project was conducted. Discussions were also held regarding students’ opinions and suggestions for the second book presentation.

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Sway: Create and share interactive reports, presentations, personal stories, and more.

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It was truly a wonderful experience for me. Everyone’s presentation was excellent, and all the students were very well-prepared. I am very happy to be a part of this project. I sincerely thank Monica, Miriana, Cansu, and Ceren for their efforts in the project. I believe we all did an amazing job!

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It was incredible expreince, everyones presentation was wonderful, I listened to with great pleasure.

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The presentation was pretty great and it was a very good experience for me thank you very much to everyone

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I am very happy to be a part of this project it has truly been an amazing experience I especially want to thank umut for his contributions to the project from the very beginning

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I'm very happy to have participated in this project. It was a good experience because I met many people. Everyone made a good presentation of their work. I worked very well with Umut because we helped each other.

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even though i am not part of this book, watching the meeting was truly great. everyones presentation was excellent. since we were in the same group i personally witnessed how much effort umut put into this. Youre awesome bro

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a gripping article about the characters of the book

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a gripping article about the characters of the book

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When I think of Oscar Wilde, I think of a razor-sharp, witty dialogue satirising society in the Victorian era via extremely quotable passages. In The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde has nailed this art to perfection and offers it in concentrated form, leaving out any serious context. Did I mention, I love this play?

The Picture of Dorian Gray is considerably darker, even if the sharp, witty dialogue, mostly coming from Lord Henry, is still present. The novel deals with serious themes and I also got the impression, that it is a quite personal.
"The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself. The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown in it the secret of my own soul."
Basil, the artist who paints the picture of Dorian Gray, doesn't want to exhibit his master piece. He is afraid the world may see sides of him, he'd rather not show. Oscar Wilde didn't seem to suffer from similar qualms. Basil's infatuation with the young and beautiful Dorian Gray mirrors Wilde's own affections and the opinions on art and aestheticism expressed throughout the novel seem to coincide with Wilde's own views as expressed in essays such as Art and the Handicraftsman.

Wilde himself noted in a letter: "Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be-in other ages, perhaps "

The three key characters all represent a specific set of values and Wilde explores the dynamics and tensions between these values throughout the novel.

Lord Henry, the seducer:
When Dorian Gray first enters the scene, he is young and innocent. Both Basil and Lord Henry take an interest in Dorian, but whereas Basil has his best interest at heart, Lord Henry seeks to influence and even manipulate the young man with his views on the hedonistic lifestyle. So is he the culprit, rather than Dorian?
"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself."
I couldn't help being charmed by the witty, articulate, unapologetic Lord Henry. Wouldn't we all want someone like him in our lives? Even if Lord Henry does influence Dorian in an unfortunate direction, ultimately I believe, we aren't responsible for the actions of other people. Lord Henry himself seemed to live a life within the norms, despite his amoral advice to Dorian. I'll even forgive his view on women.
My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

Basil Hallward, the principled admirer:
Basil represents the sensible and principled voice, trying to counteract Lord Henry's dubious influence. Ironically, Basil's infatuation with Dorian was back then considered just as sinful as anything Dorian Gray may have done. The Picture of Dorian Gray was published in three different versions with the second and third version toning down Basil's infatuation with Dorian until it could be interpreted as an artist's admiration of his subject. Still, even in the first edition, the homosexual undertones are relatively vague [see comparison from lithub here].

Dorian Gray, the ultimate hedonist:
Dorian is the personification of hedonism and vanity. We see how he gradually takes it further and further, until there is no way back. Society's obsession with youth and beauty is how it all starts. Dorian quickly realises how possessing these qualities gives him power and opportunities. Does this sound familiar? Now, more than a century later, this theme is as relevant as ever. People today also seem willing to go to extremes to achieve youth and beauty. If Dorian Gray have lived today, he might not have needed to sell his soul; a bit of botox and surgery would have done the trick. All the way through I hoped for some kind of redemption for him. From time to time he did express doubts and intentions to change. Alas, it was not to be.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray is a must read for Oscar Wilde fans. Not only is it bursting with quotable passages, but I also felt, I learned more about the writer behind the words. Wilde's tragic destiny [he was imprisoned in 1895 for gross indecency and died five years later] really puts the writing into perspective.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
Rating: 4 out of 5.

Title: The Picture of Dorian Gray [1890]Author: Oscar WildeFormat: AudiobookGenre: Classics

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Book Review: The Picture of Dorian Gray - For Book Lovers and Random People

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The Picture of Dorian Gray is a must read for Oscar Wilde fans. Not only is it bursting with quotable passages, but I also felt, I learned

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Oscar Wilde, Irish wit, poet, and dramatist who was a spokesman for the late 19th-century Aesthetic movement that advocated art for art’s sake.

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it was fantastic to see all the members were so into the book!!!well done team!!!