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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on 16 October 1854 in Dublin. His father was a successful surgeon, and his mother was a writer and literary hostess. Wilde was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford. While at Oxford, Wilde became involved in the aesthetic movement. After he graduated, he moved to London to pursue a literary career.
A first volume of his poetry was published in 1881 but as well as composing verse, he contributed to the 'Pall Mall Gazette', wrote fairy stories and published a novel 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (1891). His greatest talent was for writing plays, and he produced a string of extremely popular comedies including 'Lady Windermere's Fan' (1892), 'An Ideal Husband (1895)' and 'The Importance of Being Earnest' (1895). 'Salomé' was performed in Paris in 1896.
He married Constance Lloyd in 1884 and they had two sons, but in 1891 Wilde began an affair with Lord Alfred Douglas. In April 1895, Wilde sued Bosie's father, the Marquis of Queensberry, for libel, after the Marquis has accused him of being homosexual. Wilde lost and, after details of his private life were revealed during the trial, was arrested and tried for gross indecency. He was sentenced to two years of hard labour. While in prison he composed a long letter to Douglas, published under the title 'De Profundis' . His wife took their children to Switzerland and adopted the name 'Holland'. Wilde was released with his health damaged and his reputation ruined. He spent the rest of his life in Europe, publishing 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' in 1898. He died in Paris on 30 November 1900.

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Genre- gothic, philosophical literature
Publishing year- 1890. gada 20. jūnijs
Viewpoint- Third person, with a short part of it being firs person.

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Oscar Wilde's novel, 'The picture of Dorian gray' was written in the Victorian Era of England. The novel, was radical to this time period and the novel was deemed scandalous. England was in with the Victorian Era, which was filled with sexual restraint, a strict code of conduct, and a low tolerance for crime.

Wilde's only novel contained all of the opposing morals of Victorian England. Sexual restraint is contradicted with the supposed homosexuality of the main characters, the code of conduct is lost with Dorian’s motive of only seeking pleasure in life, and the low tolerance of crime was unfollowed when Dorian kills a friend, and bribes another. For these reasons Wilde had received negative criticism.

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In the first chapter we are introduced to three new character. Lord Henry and Basil. Basil is a painter, who painted a portrait of Dorian Gray, who is yet to be introduced. Basil had explained how beautiful, truly beautiful he belived Dorian Gray was, Lord Henry asked to see the portrait, Basil first refused, but later gave in, and showed him. Basil explained how every painting is more a representation of the artist rather than of the model.

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We were introduced to Lord Henry and Basil. We find out that Basil is a painter, who has painted a portait of Dorian Gray. Basil seems to be a sensetive, emotional man, whilst Lord Henry seems to be more rough.

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The main problem in this page was for Basil to share the portrait of Dorian, he was almost afraid, he belived Dorian to be the most beautiful man he had ever seen.

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'If they know nothing of vitory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat'
'The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ.'
'Fate gad in store for me exquisite joys and equisite sorrows.'

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The vocabulary, when first reading was a little intimidating, but as I read more and more of the novel, it seemed to get easier, and easier. The novel is written in such a way, that i belive it was firstly meant only for scholars to read, but nowadays mostly anyone could read it. The english language is truly beautiful, and this novel shows us just how beautiful it can be.

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The main connection i could find was Basil hiding the portait. From the way he talked abot Dorian it seemed like he was in love with him, and the same could be said about our world. When a person has a serious crush, or is in love with someone, sometimes they truly fear showing that person, because at that point the person is at their most volnurable.

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In this page we get the main introduction to Dorian Gray. the three main charachters were all toghether, and talking, we got to see what type of person Dorain truly was, and in my personal opinion, I would say Dorain seems a little naive and emotional, just like Basil. Although we got to meet him, we do not get much information about him, ohter that he seems a bit snobby aswell.

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We get introduced to Dorian Gray who does seem a bit naive, emotional, and a bit snobby, but otherwise seems like an honest man at this point.
We find out that Lord Henry is much older than I expected, but with age comes knowladge, which he freemly shares with his peers, but also seems jelous and ruthless.

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'It is only shallow people, who do not judge by appearences'
'I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given.'
'The life that was to make his soul would mar his body'

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Basil, in my opinion seemed nervous in this meeting, which just shows how much the poeple we fall in love with makes us feel. He enjoys spending time with Dorian, but when it came to introducing him to Lord Henry, he got nervous, he wanted them to like eachother.

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The main plot was to have a meeting with a lot of new characters, most intellectuals. A lot of talking was about America, very little to do with their own country. They talked about marrying American woman and men. At evening, there was an intelectual talk between Lord Henry and Sir Thomas.

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New characters- Lady Agatha, Dudress, Mrs. Vandeleur, Sir Thomas, Mr. Erskine, Devereux.
We also did learn that Dorian is very possibly double faced, in my opinion, a very horrible trait for a person, but we also learned that Lord Henry with all of his knowladge he shares, can be immensly reckless.

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The main problem we read in this page was that a lot of Englands young men marry woman from America, which the fine woman and men at the meeting did not like very much.

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'Philantropic people lose all sense of humanity'
Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain'
'...because in his soul who saught for her, there had been weakened that wonderful sensation.'

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Nowadays it is more accapted, but in those times, it was not as accaptable to marry someone not from your own country. The main problem that was in this chapter, nowadays, is no problem at all.

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Lady Henry comes to DOrian, he firstly mistakes her for Lord Henry, but the conversation seems to be quite painful from her end, i belive she has started thinking that Lord Henry is having an affair. Dorian, as always seems double faced, we do find out that he indeed did stand up Basil to go out with Lord Henry. We also find out that Dorian is in love with an actress, she preforms plays, and Dorian enjoys seeing her. He was called to the back, to meet her one day, and to say there was chemistry would be an understatement.

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We are introduced to Lord Henrys wife, Lady Henry. Dorian is truly double faced, he had stood up Basil to go to the opera with Lord Henry, Lohengrin. Lord Henry tried to get rid of his wife in the conversation quite fast, which makes me think if he even loves her at this point anymore, seems like he is only interested in Dorian. The woman that Dorian has fallen in love with is named Sibyl Vane.

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Main theme in this chapter is love and marrige, whilst Lord Henry sais 'Nevery marry a woman with straw coloured hair', and in my opinion is saying that he regrets marrying his wife, Dorian is telling him all about his new found love in the actress.

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'Men marry because they are tired; woman, because they are curious: both are dissapointed.'
'Woman represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.'
'There are many things we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.'

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They are talking about love, both are the exact opposites of the argument. Dorian belives in love, and marrige, finds it beautiful, but Lord Henry thinks its a regrettable decisioin. This is true in the modern world, now more than ever, marriges do not last anymore as they used to, in the older days a divorce was frowned upon, nowadays it is normalalised.

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Sibyl Vane is extremely happy over her romance with Dorian Gray. Mrs. Vane, her mother, is less happy, and she alternately worries over Dorian’s intentions and hopes that her daughter will gain from his seemingly obvious wealth. Sibly's brother James feels the same way. As a sailor preparing to travel to Australia, James arrives to say his good-byes and tells his mother that she should watch over Sibyl. His mother assures him that admirers such as Dorian Gray are not uncommon to actresses, and that there is no reason not to dissaoprove of a man with such wealth. James did not enjoy that answer too much, so he went on a walk with Sibyl Vane, she talks about all the adventures James is going to find in Australia. She imagines him discovering gold but then, thinking this life is too dangerous, states that he will be better off as a quiet sheep farmer.

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We are introduced to both Sibyls mother and brother. Her brother, James seems way too overbearing, he tries to meddle in her personal life, trying to convice her to nto do anything with Dorian, altough the mothers viws started the same, but changed after she realised Dorian abviously comes from wealth.

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The main theme here was that family can never agree. The mother belived that her daughter should be with Dorian, because of the wealth, and how that could help them, although her brother was the exact oppoiste, attempting to stop her from Dorian.

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'I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take toward life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.'
'The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with the possession of those virtues that are likely to be a benefit to us.'
'Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others. One’s own life—that is the important thing. As for the lives of one’s neighbors, if one wishes to be a prig or a Puritan, one can flaunt one’s moral views about them, but they are not one’s concern.'

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This, in my opion, always happens in modern day love. There is always some trying to meddle with it, in this case scenario it was family, other times it is not family, but at the end of the day, someone always tries to get in the way of love.

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In this chapter, Dorian finally proposes to the actress, Sibyl Vane, whilst they are filled with joy Lord Henry disagrees with the decision, he believes that Sibyl was the one to make Dorian propose, bringing up the conversation about marriage up first, as well as insinuating about it. Lord Henry also believes that Sibyl is making Dorian forget everything Lord Henry had thought him over the time they spent together.

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Lord Henry kind of tortures Basil, knowing that Basil would be hurt from knowing, he still told Basil that Dorian was planning to marry Sibyl Vane.

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The main theme or more of problem in this chapter isDorian wanting to marry Sibyl, obviously it hurts Basil, whilst yes, Dorian and Sibyl both seem happy, it does createa problematic situation for Basil now.

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“Dorian is far too wise not to do foolish things now and then, my dear Basil.” “Marriage is hardly a thing that one can do now and then, Harry.” “Except in America,” rejoined Lord Henry languidly. “But I didn't say he was married.''

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This situation, in my opinion, seems to happen too often, a person too scared and worried to admit how they truly feel twords a person waits too much, too long to the point that it becomes too late.

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The theater is filled. Dorian continues to talk about Sibyl’s beauty, and Basil assures Dorian that he will support the marriage wholeheartedly since Dorian is so obviously in love with her. When the play begins Sibyl is terrible, and her acting only gets worse as the evening goes on. Basil and Lord Henry leave Dorian, and he makes his way backstage to find Sibyl, who is quite happy despite her horrible performance. She explains that before she met Dorian and experienced what true love is, she was able to take on other charachters, which she thought was why she was such a good acctress.

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Basil and Lord Henry seem quite judgemental, whilst Dorian stays quite supportive of Sibyl, i belive that her acting just seemed that bad to the both Lord Henry and Basil because of jelousy, it is noticable they they have an interest in Dorian, although, I also do not belive that Sibyls acting is as good as DOrian sees it, since he is blinded by love.

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The main theme/problem that i saw in this chapter was all about Sibyls acting, how Dorian and Basil just left, Dorian went to support Sibyl. I belive that was the main problem here.

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“Don’t talk like that about any one you love, Dorian. Love is a more wonderful thing than Art.” “They are both simply forms of imitation, remarked Lord Henry.”
He seemed to have forgotten all that he had gone through. A dim sense of having taken part in some strange tragedy came to him once or twice, but there was the unreality of a dream about it.

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This is a perfect example to connect to real life, in a lot of relationships, and parters, your friends, the people clostst to you only notice the worst flaws that a person has, because you're blinded by love.

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To sum up the plot of chapter 8, Lord Henry visits Dorian with bad news, turns out Sibyl commites suicide, Lord Henry suggests that Dorian should go to the police and explain his part of the story, later Dorian joins Lord Henry to the opera. That same morning, Dorian noticed a change in the portrait Basil had painted of Dorian, and noticed a mark by his mouth, which made him feel anxious, he thought that the painting would never age, yet he saw him getting old in the painting.

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Lord Henry seems to be a really good friend in general, being able to deliver news that bad, not a lot of people could do that, Basil certainly could not. Also, speakingof Basil, I am pretty sure that he edited Dorians portrait, because Dorian did notice some marking, he never remembered being on the portait.

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Dorian reflects on his "unreal and selfish love" for Sibyl and hopes that it will be transformed into something nobler. He would do this with the help of the portrait, a visible symbol of his corruption, which would be his conscience and he would use to guide him through life. As the battle for his soul between good and evil continues, he appears to find his moral compass and vows to follow the noble path. He does not yet know about Sibyl’s suicide.

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In life, there is an incredible ammount of slight inconviences you immedietly forget about when you find out incredibly bad news. The little fights, the slight upsets just dissapear.

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The main plot, in my opinion, quite a boring chapter, but the plot mostly talks about how Basil is upset at Dorian for taking on some characteristics of Lord Henry, absolutely dismising Sibyls suicide, starting to take on a look of unaffectedness, showing no emotions, also starting to talk more like Lord Henry. Basil also wanted to show off the painting of DOrian at a gallery i belive, but Dorian immediatly got defensive, and said that it should never see the lights of day.
Also, Dorian says that he will never again be sitting for Basil to paint him.

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The only real change was Dorians attitude, and his whole attitude is just based on Lord Henrys character.... thats it.

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I can’t explain it to you, Basil, but I must never sit to you again. There is something fatal about a portrait. It has a life of its own.
They would defile it, and make it shameful. And yet the thing would still live on. It would always be alive.

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Keeping secrets from friends never end in a good way, Dorian is now hiding his distaste for the portrait since his ''corrupt smile'' has started to show on the portait, it happens often, friends lie to each other, just to protect themselves, yet it never ends well. Also people do often change stuff about themselves to look or sound more like someone they look up to.

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Dorian decides to hide the portait in an old school room, Which he calls Victor and Mrs. Leaf to do, but the rest of the chapter he reads the book Lord Henry sent him. Attached to the book came a newspaper describing Sibyls death, whenm Dorian read it, he was quite disgusted, so he turned to the book. He lost track of time reading it, and called it a ''poissones work of art''. Saying it was both fantastic and horrible. Later that same evening, when he had went to meet Lord Henry for dinner he described the book as a work of art.

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Victor, Dorians servent gets introduced aswell as his housekeeper Mrs. Leaf.

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''It was the strangest book that he had ever read. It seemed to him that in exquisite raiment, and to the delicate sound of flutes, the sins of the world were passing in dumb show before him. Things that he had dimly dreamed of were suddenly made real to him. Things of which he had never dreamed were gradually revealed.''

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Dorian tries to lock his secrets away as many people do, his so called ''corrupt smile'' locked away in a room, a lot of people try to hide and lock away most bad things about them trying to not let anyone see them, trying to show off only the best parts of themselvesl.

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The chapter begins with notifying the reader that multiple years have passed Dorian is influenced more by the yellow book rather then Lord Henry. This was also the time where people were spreading rumors, and gossiping about Dorian, yet when they met Dorian, the gossip stopped. Dorian also went to check on the portrait from time to time, and the portrait was "bloated, ugly, aged"

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Dorian becomes more influenced from the yellow book. Lord Henry becomes, in a way, unimportant.

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"He grew more and more enamored of his own beauty, more and more interested in the corruption of his own soul."
"He would examine with minute care, and sometimes with a monstrous and terrible delight, the hideous lines that seared the wrinkling forehead or crawled around the heavy, sensual mouth, wondering sometimes which were the more horrible, the signs of sin or the signs of age."

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We cansee how people change when talking to someone compared to talking to them behind their back.

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Dorian meets Basil, whilst he did not want to meet him, he was, in a way, forced to and when they did run into each other, Basil told Dorian about the things people were saying behinf his back. In response Dorian sais that he is only interested in others drama, and gossip, his situation lacks interest.

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Dorian is the same incompetent man. Basil is introduced again, which I quite enjoy.

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"Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef."
"Dorian Gray had been poisoned by a book. There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful."

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Here we can see how many friends try to help one another in almost any situation, whilst some just do not listen to advice from friends, because they feel better then the other.

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A lot happends in this chapter, but the main thing, is that Basil is dead... Dorian killed Basil from an appearent calling from the portrait. Since we know that Doriam sold his soal with the portrait, I belive it is meant, that the portrait contains the Devil himself.

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Basil is dead. Dorian is a murderer, yet a smart one.

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"He held the light up again to the canvas, and examined it. The surface seemed to be quite undisturbed and as he had left it. It was from within, apparently, that the foulness and horror had come. Through some strange quickening of inner life the leprosies of sin were slowly eating the thing away. The rotting of a corpse in a watery grave was not so fearful."

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In this chapter we see, how no one can truly be trusted, whilst Basil belives Dorian to be a friend, Dorian ended up being the end of his short life.

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Dorian wakes up the next day after murdering Basil, he slept well, but he is haunted by the events of the previous night. He starts to look for distractions, to help him take his mind off of the murder, but anything he tries just reminds him more and more of Basil. He writes to Mr. Campbell aswell. But when he enters the attic, whre he stored Basil, he feels the horrid smell, yet Basil is nowhere to be seen.

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We are introduced to Mr. Campbell, who is a scientist. We see how Basils death actually impacts Dorians life.

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"What was that loathsome red dew that gleamed, wet and glistening, on one of the hands, as though the canvas had sweated blood? How horrible it was!—more horrible, it seemed to him for the moment, than the silent thing that he knew was stretched across the table, the thing whose grotesque, misshapen shadow on the spotted carpet showed him that it had not stirred, but was still there, as he had left it."

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Here we can see how much one action, no matter how big or small can impact our life, absoluetly ruining our day to day life.

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Quite a boring chapter, maybe put in because of the dramatic enerdy of the last three, not much happens, Dorian goes to a dinner party, and shows off his substence abuse, that is about it.

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Dorian keeps proving that he has a serious substence abuse problem, and every other characters shrugs it off as him being in love.

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"I have not been in love for a whole week"
"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."

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This proves how easily a persons emotions can be hidden if such is their desire. Weather it be positive or negative emotions, it is possible to hide everything, to see what truly is going on, we have to look at actions, rather then words.

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In this chapter, Dorian and Lord Henry are both on a carrige, where Lord Henry starts reminiscing about the day he and Dorian fist met. Then later we find out that Dorian was heading to an opium den, where he saw a person Basil mentioned Dorian pulled into a worse life, so he left the room to go to a different one, where no one knew him.

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Dorian is craving opium, again, showing substence abuse. Adrian continues to abuse opium. James tries to kill Dorian.

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"Dim and wavering as was the wind-blown light, yet it served to show him the hideous error, as it seemed, into which he had fallen, for the face of the man he had sought to kill had all the bloom of boyhood, all the unstained purity of youth. He seemed little more than a lad of twenty summers, hardly older, if older indeed at all, than his sister had been when they had parted so many years ago. It was obvious that this was not the man who had destroyed her life."

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We all at times go back to our previous bad habits, where we find ourselves or other people, who were in our lives at the time, and it can make us re-evaluate our decisions.

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The whole plot starts off with an intelligent argument between the Duchess and Lord Henry about a plethera of subjects. Later on it is told, that the Duchess is interested, and flirting with both Lord Henry and Dorian.

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The Duchess seems to be quite opinionated, as well as, her problem to choose.

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"There was a wild recklessness of gaiety in his manner as he sat at table, but now and then a thrill of terror ran through him when he remembered that, pressed against the window of the conservatory, like a white handkerchief, he had seen the face of James Vane watching him."

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In this chapter, we are introduced into modern day relationships, where neither person can decide what exactly they want, with whom exactly they want it.

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In this chapter, at the beggining we talk about how scared and weak Dorian truly acted, he went into hiding, because the thoughts of Jason were too bad to deal with. Yet he did eventually get better.

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Dorian, again, comes off weak, not showing anybody, that he would have even the slightest incline of self worth, by going into hiding.

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"Up-stairs, in his own room, Dorian Gray was lying on a sofa, with terror in every tingling fiber of his body. Life had suddenly become too hideous a burden for him to bear. The dreadful death of the unlucky beater, shot in the thicket like a wild animal, had seemed to him to prefigure death for himself also."

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We all face challanges , tas we are too afraid to take, yet sometimes we have to get it toghether and power through it.

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It is a long, drawn out singular interaction between Lord Henry and Dorian, in this instence Dorian is hinting, and playing with fire, whilst his opponent, is completely oblivious.

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Dorian seems even more emotionally unstable. Lord Henry quite obliviousto all of them.

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“Because,” said Lord Henry, passing beneath his nostrils the gilt trellis of an open vinaigrette box, “one can survive everything nowadays except that. Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.”

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Again, I will return to the part where a lot of people lie about what they truly do and feel, wheather it be to impresse someone, or anything else, its horrific.

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The whole plot is to make us understand the extent of Dorians actions, which he might understand, but he also has a short temper.

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So Dorian has just started to repent his sins, which costs much approval from the people who were not, and the time, it was a different town.

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"Then he loathed his own beauty, and flinging the mirror on the floor crushed it into silver splinters beneath his heel. It was his beauty that had ruined him, his beauty and the youth that he had prayed for. But for those two things his life might have been free from stain."

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Whilst I might not belive in god, I do belive in a higher power out there, which would make all of this serious.