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Chapter 1
Overall it was about art. How beautiful it can especially when you are in love. I never taught that one book could bring me into reading.

Furthermore, I love the way first chapter was like an intrigue to me. It started with a small detail that I wanted to know and ended in a confusion that continued in the chapter 2.

In a conclusion I would like to say that this chapter was interesting and full of moral things that are like nowadays.

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1.      “The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.”

By that I would say that Basil was afraid of his own feelings towards Mr. Gray that he tried to be more difficult and two sided just to please other wishes. From this quote I understood that by being a two-sided person will not get you somewhere further than the place you are right now.

2.      ’’Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know’’

This quote has led us to understand how Lord Henry described how easy it is to be who you really are by not trying to always impress someone with something. On the other hand, I totally agree with this sentence, because as I mentioned before being natural an uninteresting or unfunny person is a normal thing, and no one should feel ashamed of it. The more we accept critic from other people the more we learn how the be better for ourselves.

3.      ‘The first is the appearance of a new medium for art, and the second is the appearance of a new personality for art also.’’

I think what Basil said was a good point of characterising art, but as I know that art is better when you are in your feelings with the work you do. In my opinion Basil wanted to say that art could so much more then just a piece of coloured paper. For basil it was a big work by the name Dorian. This quote led us finally to understand that by drawing Dorian, Basil tried to change to a better person and by that, I mean he also tried to change his personality.

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1.      ” Oh, I am tired of sitting, and I don’t want a life-sized

portrait of myself.”

With this quote we clearly can see how tired Mr. Gray was of all the basic art. He was tired of himself by that I mean Dorian was tired of always looking too good and making others feel like they should be a lower race then him. Of course, Dorian was obsessed with himself and by that, I mean his youth, but certainly he understood that he can’t do anything about it.

2.      “There is no such thing as a good influence”

As Henry mentioned that there is a bad and a good influence on people the same as in our world we live right now. Almost everyone had this  ‘’bad influence’’  from someone we never taught we could get it. But in a certain way the same was to Lord Henry, he tried to open up and be kind as also improve Basil. Meanwhile Basil didn’t want to change for a friend and always complained how bad it Is to be free person. As Henry said, ‘‘Because to influence a person is to give him one’s own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts or burn with his natural passions.’’

3.      “Courage has gone out of our race”

Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the 24 The Picture of Dorian Gray secret of religion,—these are the two things that govern us.

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Problem 1

“Scared of his own feelings”

In Chapter 1 we clearly can see how scared Basil is of his own feelings. He tries to blame it all by saying that he can’t do anything to it no more, but in a reality, he is just scared to hurt himself.

Problem 2

“Insecurities”

“You don’t understand me, Harry. Of course, I am not like

him. I know that perfectly well. Indeed, I should be sorry

to look like him.” – This was the main reason why I taught that this chapter is full of insecurities. Yes of course we all have some insecurities that we don’t want to share or be known in publicity but as I mentioned before I noticed how Basil and Gray described themselves. Basil always tried to compare himself to Dorian by saying that he is not enough or as this quote say, - “….my brains, such as they are, —my fame, whatever it may be worth, Dorian Gray’s good looks, —we will all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.”

Problem 3

“Beauty standards”

I noticed how beauty standards from that time of period are like ours. For example, -” The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world.” If we look to this time of period, we live right now then we clearly could see that nothing changed by that I mean we still have a lot of people that may are not the smartest humans but, in some way, they manage to control our country or even our world

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Birth name: Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Birth date: October 16, 1854
Birth place: Dublin, Ireland
Nationality: Irish

Wilde at Oxford
(april, 1876 – age 22)

Educated:

Trinity College (Dublin)

Magdalen College (Oxford)

Father: Sir William Wilde (eye doctor)
Mother: Jane Francesca Elgee (poet and journalist)
Siblings: brother William, sister Isola
Spouse: Constance Lloyd
Children: two sons - Cyril and Vyvyan

Occupation: Playwright, novelist, poet, editor, critic
Period: Victorian era (1837–1901)
Literary movement: Aestheticism

Famous Works:

The Picture of Dorian Gray (novel)

The Importance of Being Earnest (play)

The Ballad of Reading Gaol (poem)

Died: November 30, 1900 (aged 46) in Paris, France
Resting place: Le Pére Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France

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1.    He Was Catholic When He Died

2.    His Last Words Were The Epitome Of Last Words

3.    He Only Wrote One Novel ”The Picture of Dorian Gray”

4.    He Was An Accomplished Children’s Book Writer

5.    He Was Extremely Well Educated

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Problem 1

“World reality”

In Chapter 2 we clearly can see how magnificent Lord Henry described the world, era they lived in. For example, ‘’The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the 24 The Picture of Dorian Gray secret of religion, —these are the two things that govern us.’’

Problem 2

“Jealously”

‘’You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with your rose-red youth

and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that

have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with

terror, daydreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame—’’ As Lord Henry described the hurtful words about Dorian. It was unfair, because he didn’t even know the truth how hard childhood was for Dorian. He stood there with his sad smile looking at Dorian while he was telling the truth.

Problem 3

“Feelings”

’’My dear fellow, I am so sorry. When I am painting, I

can’t think of anything else.’’ In the second chapter we clearly could see the sparkling flames trough Dorian and Basil while he was painting.

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Chapter 2
Summary  was more interesting, because I had the chance to know Mr.Grey childhood problems , ‘’ Yes; there had been things in his boyhood that he had not understood.’’

Furthermore, we also could see the spark between Basil and Dorian while he was painting him, the murmuring, the tension that was created was unforgettable, But I noticed one more thing.

In a conclusion I would like to say that not only some love affairs were there but how scared Basil was to show his final work to Dorian, he was always scared of critic to him, but this was the final stage, because he had feelings. The way he tried to help Dorian was unbelievable.

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1.“I can sympathize with everything, except suffering,” said Lord Henry, shrugging his shoulders.

I would agree with this one,because no one can enjoy while they are suffering

2.My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect—simply a confession of failure.

I agree with this quote too because no one in this planet who truly loves you will love you only once for example your family-once they loved you they always will and no matter what you did or who you are they always will love you and if someone don`t then they never truly loved you.

3.“Yes, Harry, I believe that is true. I cannot help telling you things. You have a curious influence on me. If I ever did a crime, I would come and confess it to you. You would understand me.”

Dorian was too naive in some situations because he always trusted harry but unsuccessfully when Dorian DID a crime he lied again and didn't confess it.

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Problem 1
"Using Dorian"
Everyone tried to use Dorian as much as they could, for example even Dorian`s dad used him since he was a child-
The son, who had been his father’s secretary.

Problem 2
"Unhappy childhood"
When Lord Henry asks his uncle about Dorian Gray's past, the old man tells him that Dorian comes from an unhappy family with a dark, tangled history.

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Chapter 3
In chapter 3 Lord Henry realizes he has missed his Aunt’s house. When he eventually arrives, the guests, including Dorian, are seated. Henry observes the crowd, summing each one up for his or her class and quirks. The Duchess of Harley brings up the marriage of their friend to the American girl. One of the gentlemen compliments Americans for being reasonable people. This sets Henry off. He detests reason as a virtue. Aunt Agatha scolds Henry for always being puzzling with his paradoxical arguments. She tells him off for trying to make Dorian leave the East End – she thinks Dorian should play the piano for the unhappy people there. The table begins a discussion of how to solve the East End’s poverty. Henry does not sympathize, claiming to prefer philosophy to philanthropy, and doesn’t want to see the world changed in any way.

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1."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 mid, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals."

With this quote, I personally don't agree because there are a lot of women's right hurtful sentences and this is not true the main reason Lord said it was because he was in an unhappy marriage with his wife.

2."You know how a voice can stir one. Your voice and the voice of Sibyl Vane are two things that I shall never forget."

I agree with this one because when people are in love they will remember every single detail about their loved ones.

3."His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion."

I agree with this quote because Dorian never loved Sibly Vane and could never love her as much as he loved himself.

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Problem 1
``Sexualizing woman ``
In this chapter Lord Henry sexualized woman with this quote “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.”

Problem 2
``Bipolar feelings``
We clearly could`ve seen that Dorian definitely has bipolar issues by that I mean one day he says that he really loves Sibly but the next day he is laughing and breaking up with her because he made her feel really bad and she played her role really bad.

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Chapter 4
Chapter 4 showed us how Henry and Dorian both have a distrust of time. Dorian is always conscious of it wasting away and Henry, paradoxically as always, tries to cheat its influence by denying it. We discover that Henry must be quite interested in Dorian’s appearance, and the photographs serve as mini portraits of Dorian and connect Henry’s interest with Basil’s looks.They share views on talking during musical performances, Dorian saying that he would only talk during bad music. This amuses Victoria as an echo of one of her husband’s views. The narrator describes Victoria as a woman who tried to look picturesque but only managed to look untidy, and as being always in love, which she admits herself when she tells Dorian that she always falls in love with pianists.

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1."Oh! How I shall play it! Fancy, Jim, to be in love ad play Juliet! To have him sitting there! To play for his delight I am afraid I may frighten the company, frighten or enthrall them. To be in love is to surpass oneself."

Everyone was shocked at how deeply in love Sibly Vane and Dorian were but no one knew the truth that Dorian had a mask on with his feelings.

2."I wish I had, for as sure as there is a God in heaven, if he ever does you any wrong, I shall kill him."

I don't agree with this one because you cant blame any religion of the mistakes you did by yourself.

3." She was free in her prison of passion. Her prince, Prince Charming, was with her. ."

This quote if I could I would call it ``first love`` because Sibly was deeply in love and no matter how much time passed or what he did to her she would always miss him.

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1."I hope that Dorian Gray will make this woman his wife, passionately adore her for six months, and then suddenly become fascinated by someone else. He would be a wonderful study."

Everyone wished Dorian to hurt little young Sibly and unfortunately it happened but if we look from the real-life perspective then I would agree 100% that it happens too many times when someone dislikes you half other and your mind starts to believe that these bad things about your love one are true.

2."I love Sibyl Vane. I want to place her on a pedestal of gold, and to see the world worship the woman who is mine."

This was the quote that I loved the most because Dorian wanted to do that but never successfully achieved it because of his ego.

3."What is marriage? An irrevocable vow. You mock at it for that. Ah! Don't mock. It is an irrevocable vow that I want to take."

I don't agree with it because as I mentioned before Lord Henry was just an unhappy man that wanted to ruin Dorian's happiness because if you love the right person then marriage is the most beautiful and wonderful thing that could exist.

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1."She spiritualizes them, and one feels that they are of the same flesh and blood as one's self."

This is when you connect with a person too fast as Dorian with Sibly they had met only 3 weeks ago and suddenly he felt the urge to marry her that's why he couldn't get his feelings right because for Sibly it was something new but for Dorian, it was just another experiment that of course somewhere deep he loved but not as much as he loved himself.

2."If this girl can give a soul to those who have lived without one, if she can create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid and ugly, if she can strip them of their selfishness and lend them tears for sorrows that are not their own, she is worthy of all your adoration, worthy of the adoration of the world. This marriage is quite right. I did not think so at first, but I admit it now. The gods made Sibyl Vane for you. Without her you are incomplete."

Everyone knew that Sibyl was the one that would be perfect for Dorian but I know that relationships or marriage will never work out if someone loves another harder then it should in reality.

3."The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing."

This was the first time Dorian felt guilt feeling when he hurt Sibyl but its strange that he didn't feel anything when killed Basil, and would say it was because he knew that she loved him and he could do with her everything he wanted but Basil hurt him by revealing his real side to others and he loved him.

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1."His unreal and selfish love would yield to some higher influence, would be transformed into some nobler passion,

I agree with this because sometimes you cantchangee the person and either he or she is going to listen or not going to.

2."I know what conscience is, to begin with. It is not what you told me it was. It is the divinest thing in us. Don't sneer at it, Harry, any more-at least not before me. I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous."

I think that everyone would love to be a good person at some point but this time Dorian asked for help since the situation was always reversed.

3."This portrait would be to him the most magical of mirrors. As it had revealed to him his own body, so it would reveal to him his own soul."

At first Dorian couldn't even look at his painting as it was horrible and too perfect but then he loved it the only thing was that he couldn't accept himself in the real life and in his mind.

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1."You look exactly the same wonderful boy who, day after day, used to come down to my studio to sit for his picture."

With this quote, I understood it the same as some people may change over time but basil didn't the only way he changed was his inside energy.

2."But you were simple, natural, and affectionate then. You were the most unspoiled creature in the whole world."

This was the quote that in a similar way describes the previous quote and by that, I wanted to say that some people can change only in the inside and in situation Dorian changed into a bad person.

3."Now, I don't know what had come over you. You talk as if you had no heart, no pity in you. It is all Harry's influence, I see that."

I totally agree with Basil in this quote but at some point, I think that the people that were around him used him too much that he started to understand that he need to stop being too naive and helpful to others that's why I think he turned into a bad person.

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1.``It was really love``

It had nothing in it that was not noble and intellectual. It was not that mere physical admiration of beauty that is born of the senses, and that dies when the senses tire. It was such love as Michael Angelo had known, and Montaigne, and Winckelmann, and Shakespeare himself.This is Dorian's reflection of Basil's love for him, that shows how much basil idolizes and adores him, and adds to the already present notes of homoeroticism in the novel. Additionally it shows why basil would not want to exhibit his painting (because it expressed too much of idolatry

2.``Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.``

This quote expresses both Wilde's and Lord Harry's opinion that defends faithlessness and dishonesty in favor of being a "colorful person". It adds to the theme of aesthetics over morals.

3.``Sybil has passed into the sphere of art.``

Again Dorian thinks of Sybil as a character, and in this way he copes and refuses to be hurt by her dramatic death.

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1." Hedonism that was to recreate life, and to save from that harsh, uncomely puritanism that is having, in our own day, its curious revival."

I don't agree with this one because Hedonism is not going to recreate or freshen up your life it will only help you a little bit by making you feel good in a short time of period.

2."There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realise his conception of the beautiful."

Dorian couldn't accept that he is getting old and the wrinkles are getting even bigger and bigger.

3.``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.``

I think that Dorian was really a person with issues because he always tried to search in every way he could ``how to look younger or prettier``

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1."I keep a diary of my life from day to day, and it never leaves the room in which it is written.

I think everyone has their safe place where they describe their feelings and personal things and Dorian had it too.

2.``Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. ``

I agree with this one because even nowadays society will believe in anything that a rich and successful woman-man says but never in the poor ormedium-classs human beings that ar trying to say a word or asking for help almost a decade.

3.`` wondering sometimes which were the more horrible, the signs of sin or the signs of age.``

Dorian was so obsessed how he looked that it was his only think he could be proud and even nowadays if we look at popular people they are trying every method to make themselves look younger.

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1.'Lead us not into temptation. Forgive us our sins. Wash away our iniquities.'

I don't agree with this quote because it says that almost everyone should forgive each other's sins, but if we look from another perspective I don't think that Dorian's sin should be forgiven.

2.``He winced at the memory of all that he had suffered, and for a moment the same curious feeling of loathing for Basil Hallward that had made him kill him as he sat in the chair came back to him, and he grew cold with passion. The dead man was still sitting there, too, and in the sunlight now. How horrible that was! Such hideous things were for the darkness, not for the day.``

Dorian was shocked but he wasn't feeling quilty about the thing he did, he knew what is going to happen.

3.`` It was from within, apparently, that the foulness and horror had come. . ``

Dorian knew that someday everyone will know who did it that's why he couldn't stop overthinking this situation over nd over in his head.

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1.'a faint smile passed across his lips, as though he had...

Dorian after the night he killed Basil

2.``blood stained feet into his brain.'`

Dorian felt personified the events stain of his conscious,but silent, he does not feel huge guilt.

3.'he remarked that every face he drew seemed to have a fantastic likeness to ..Basil Hallward'

He is subconsciously feeling the guilt

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1.'Those finely shaped fingers could never have clutched a knife for sin, not those smiling lips have cried out on God and goodness. he himself could not help wondering at the calm of...his demeanour, and for a moment felt keenly the terrible pleasure of a double life.'

When this happened Dorians adrenaline and his duality thrilled him.

2.Dorian: 'Life is a great.disappointment.'

This was the way Dorian felt after killing basil life is not the same for him, he has experienced all sins.

3.'it held something that he longed for and yet almost loathed.'

There Dorian was talking about sins he hates but the addiction of sin and opium draws him back. A way to escape the subconscious guilt he is feeling over Basil?

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Problem 1
``Marrying for money``
Yes, of course, Sibly was so deeply in love with Dorian but since she was only 17-teen her mom kept telling her to forget about ``Prince Charming`` feelings and that if she is soo in love she must marry him.

Problem 2
``Blind Love``
In this chapter, I clearly saw this ``first love`` look from another point of view. Sibly was so in love with Dorian that she ignored all his red flags and what others told her. It wasn't correct for her, because, he never supported her or tried to love her as much as she love him.

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Problem 1
``Lying``
Dorian promised to marry Sibly so far beneath his social position. Although he couldn`t keep his promise, he was embarrassed by Sibly playing badly her role and she was too young furthermore he had promised his soul to live a life of perpetual youth.

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Problem 1
``Jealously``
In this chapter, we clearly could see another jealous scene where The Painter was invited to see Sibyl`s act and he acted angry towards Dorian by saying “Don’t pay any attention to him, Dorian,” said the painter. “

Problem 2
``Toxic Dorian``
What did Dorian be hilarious, because Sibly Vane was so much in love with Dorian that she couldn`t even kiss Romeo on the stage she felt cold and couldn`t feel what she felt with Dorian furthermore Dorian felt embarrassed of how Sibly acted and wanted to leave the theatre as fast as he could while ``Dorian Gray grew pale as he watched her. He was puzzled and anxious. Neither of his friends dared to say anything to him. She seemed to them to be absolutely incompetent. They were horribly disappointed.```

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Problem 1
``Selfish love``
In this chapter, we could see that Dorian was on a lifeline where he was thinking
a) Do I wanna marry Sibly?
b)Should I leave it as it is, in the previous chapter Dorian hurt Sibly by not supporting her and making her feel so dirty around his friends and family that he couldn't procced what to do - One thing, however, he felt that it had done for him. It had made him conscious of how unjust, how cruel, he had been to Sibyl 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.

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Problem 1
``Bipolar disorder``
Dorian continues to think of Sybil in artistic terms, and not looking in the sense of tragedy, but Basil’s description of the pale, pure color of her body brings Sybil out of the two-dimensional world of art for a moment. Though Henry’s influence taught Dorian to embrace all of life, it actually had the opposite effect and made him shy away from the reality of life and death into a world of illusions and ideas.“Stop, Basil! I won’t hear it!” cried Dorian, leaping to his feet. “You must not tell me about things. What is done is done. What is past is past.”

Problem 2
``Secrets``
In this chapter we also could see that Dorian was getting more and more scared to reveal his feelings towards Basil that he immediately called him to never publish that painting, Dorian reminds Basil of his promise never to exhibit the portrait.

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Problem 1
``Revealing his natural-self``
Dorian always was too scared to reveal himself the way he is because either he was too insecure or he was so in love with his `` prince charming`` looks that he didn't want anyone else to know what he really looked like and when it captured Dorian's natural beauty, it was something he liked to see and liked others to see as well. But once it begins to reflect his soul not what he looks like but what he is Dorian seeks to hide it, from others and from himself.

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Problem 1
``Nothing to hide anymore``
With this I wanted to say that everyone was starting to release Dorian`s big secret and as he thought it will be awful it wasn't but despite the obvious Dorian’s activities, the facades of society and art that fill the characters’ reception rooms cover up the immorality of the streets outside and Dorian is able to keep up a double life. The dual existence of the painting and the original expands into the whole of Dorian’s world.

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Problem 1
``Scared of commitment``
As Dorian approaches his thirty-eighth birthday. Walking home from an evening at Henry’s, he saw Basil in the street. Dorian pretends he hasn’t seen Basil, but Basil soon catches up with him and tells him that he has been awaiting his return all evening. Then when Basil wanted to talk with Dorian about last night he didn`t want to and taught its not that serious and deeply ignored his feelings.

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Problem 1
``Manipulation``
Dorian perfectly knew that Basil revealed his true side and broke his promise while in this chapter  Basil was sinking into a chair and crying out to Dorian to pray for his soul to be saved. He says he also needs forgiveness, he was wrong to worship Dorian so. He begs them to pray together.It was too late....

Problem 2
``Not feeling quilty``
For me it was a shock that this type of man with good manners killed a person that he loved without any quilt, all he did was sit in a chair and look at Basil while Basil was laying there fully covered in blood.

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Problem 1
``Psycho``
The next day Dorian killed Basil all this night he wasn't stressing out it is interesting that in the forgetfulness and innocence of sleep, Dorian’s face takes on a childlike appearance we realize how old and tortured his internal life has become. A symbol of clarity and freshness, the daytime, has become sour and dark with the morbid secret, showing how all appearances are deceiving now.

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Problem 1
``Hiding from yourself``
In this chapter, we could see how depressed and sad Dorian was. Of course, he wasn't showing it, because, he couldn't. But when Narborough insisted that Dorian should not be at all tired of life yet, and tells him she will try to marry him off to an eligible girl. Dorian disagreed with her because he was too tired of finding his true love and then killing one of his lovers he didn't want any type of marriage as he said - ``“She assures me so, Lady Narborough,” said Dorian. “I asked her whether, like Marguerite de Navarre, she had their hearts embalmed and hung at her girdle. She told me she didn’t because none of them had had any hearts at all.”

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Chapter 5
Summarizing chapter 5: The atmosphere is tense between Jim and his mother at dinner until Jim asks his mother outright whether she and his father had ever been married, and, relieved that it is out in the open.
Furthermore the worry about his sister’s protection colors Jim's final moments with his mother. He swears to kill anyone who mistreats her loves the melodrama of the moment and wishes it could continue, but the practicalities of her son’s departure take over. She expresses her sadness later to Sybils, to be left with only one child.

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Chapter 6
When the idea of an equal marriage is brought up, Henry assumes that Basil means physical attractiveness as the measure of this equality. This shows how one-sided and flat his view of Dorian is and the importance placed on appearance.
Furthermore it described as being a good thing by Henry. Dorian interrupts them, in jubilant spirits and tells his friends about his engagement. He describes how Sybils, dressed as Rosalind, beautiful in boy clothes as if she was made for the role, returned his love. After the show, Dorian went backstage and the pair had their first kiss.

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Chapter 7
Dorian’s excitement that Sybil’s art can solve the interest of the audience and make everything beautiful shows his belief in the transformative nature of art and love, but the fact that she must transform her surroundings means that it is the illusion that interests Dorian.
Furthermore now her artistry is gone.Only because Dorian wanted to hurt Sybil.And Did Dorian imagine it all along, because of his own lack of experience or because of her beauty? That Sybil is aware of how awful her performance was suggests otherwise. That she is happy to see Dorian despite its awfulness suggests that love is now her priority, not theater.

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Chapter 8
In this chapter Dorian’s behavior reveals the dream like nature of the vision he had the previous night.
The true meaning behind the painting’s change is yet to be revealed.Once again, the revelation that the painting provides of what is happening to Dorian's soul compels him to act. And he does act, writing the letter to Sybil.

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Chapter 9
In this chapter Dorian love for himself was like a drug, music and art and life represented on stage keeps drawing Dorian in and he can’t get enough. He mourns Sybil not as a woman but as a piece of art, and the fact that he has gone out looking for more inspiration from the theatre, shows that his addiction cannot be satisfied.
Though Henry’s influence taught Dorian to embrace all of life, it has actually had the opposite effect and made him shy away from the reality of life and death into a world of illusions and ideas.

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Chapter 10
In this chapter Dorian decides to hide the portrait in his house's old schoolroom.He regrets not telling Basil the truth about the portrait.Mr. Hubbard, a famous frame-maker, arrives with his helper.Mr. Hubbard and his assistant move the picture to the schoolroom for Dorian.When Dorian returns to the library, he finds that Lord Henry has sent him a book covered with yellow paper.

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Chapter 11
Chapter 11 showed that Dorian has fully given himself over to a life of pleasure and experience. Just as he earlier felt insignificant next to the timelessness of his portrait, now he revels in his own timelessness as compared to the portrait. He has fully controlled over his soul and the way he enjoys watching the harm he does to his soul and Dorian was managing to keep up his place in society. But to Dorian, the best form of art, as he had so often been advised by Henry, was life itself.

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Chapter 12
Chapter 12 was a large time leap and Dorian’s avoidance of Basil in the dark makes clear the extreme changes that have come to Dorian Gray. Dorian tried to hide his avoidance of serious things showing his habitual avoidance of reality and substance. Just as he himself is all surface, he wants to keep the conversation at the level of the surface. The fact that Basil, who was so passionate towards Dorian is acting like a concerned father figure now, illuminates how his influence has changed from innocence and charm to something destructive.

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Chapter 13
In Chapter 13 Dorian has only surface things, and so religion means nothing to him. He did`nt even care what Lord Henry would say , he cared only abouy himself.In Basil's horror Dorian can see the total loss of his innocence he hates Basil because Basil knew him when he was innocent and because in painting the portrait Basil started Dorian on the road away from innocence. Dorian is possessed by the portrait because he is a product of the portrait and so the portrait attacks its creator.

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Chapter 14
In chapter 14 succesfully, after much nervous waiting by Dorian, Alan Campbell arrives. Alan was a science scholar and a musician, and he and Dorian had spent over a year in close company, but now Alan, like many others, avoids Dorian. Alan has a pale, dejected appearance. He tells Dorian that he never wanted to come to this address again, but that he’d been told it was an emergency. Dorian tells Alan about the body, claiming it was a suicide, and asks him to take it away, to treat it as just another of his experiments. Alan refuses, calling it “devil’s work”. Dorian then tells him the truth. He begs Alan to pity him and remember the intimacy they used to share. But Alan is unmoved, even when Dorian says he will be hanged for the crime.

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Chapter 15
In this chapter Dorian he feels a little cheered when he realizes Lord Henry will be there, but at dinner, he has no appetite and drinks to excess. Henry notices, and inquires after his mood. Lady Narborough interrupts and announces that Dorian is in love. The three of them tease and banter about Dorian’s latest love, Madame de Ferrol, who is on her fourth husband. Lord Henry comments cuttingly that the husbands of beautiful women are mostly criminals. Lady Narborough scolds him. His reputation for wickedness is well deserved.

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1."The moon hung low in the sky like a yellow skull"
Skull links to death and corruption. It was a personification of nature suggests the supernatural is manipulating Dorian's location.They reflect his soul.

2."The hideous hunger for opium began to gnaw at him."
Metaphor highlights addiction and conveys how the supernatural is affecting Dorian`s behaviour.

3."His soul, certainly, was sick to death."

With this I meant it is true that the senses could cure Dorians soul it? Innocent blood had been spilt,but though forgiveness was impossible, forgetfulness was possible still, and he was determined to forget.

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1. "I have no terror of Death,There is no one with whom I would not change places,It is the coming of Death that terrifies me. "
Its monstrous wings seem to wheel in the leaden air around Dorian,because he was so much scared of his death that he tried to escape it as much as he could.

2."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."

There was a wild recklessness of gaiety in Dorian manner as he sat at table,because he was really uncomfortable.

3."Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."

In this quote tried to explain his passion of being young and good looking,that no one could undeestand.

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1.‘Sick with a wild terror of dying and yet indifferent to life itself. The consciousness of being hunted.‘

made Dorian feel scared,because James says he will kill him like a dog. This fits the metaphor. He also talked of being a hunted animal when killing Basil

2.‘The mask of youth had saved him.’
mask- it is not the real him he is hiding inside his beauty masking his true self

3.‘What sort of life would his be if, day and night, shadows of his crime were to peer at him from silent corners, to mock him from secret places, to whisper in his ear as he sat at the feast, to wake him with icy fingers as he lay asleep! As the thought crept through his brain, he grew pale with terror and the air seemed to him to have become suddenly colder.’

With this I meant that cold air shows Dorian`s fear. The ice fingers also the cold fear of being found out

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1.’Suddenly I determined to leave her as flower like as I had found her.’
Link to Sibyl Vane, her flower was trampled, he wants to be better

2.‘Death is the only thing that ever terrifies me. I hate it.’
Victorian fear of death, having lived a hedonistic life will he go to hell was his question number one.

3.’Like the painting of a sorrow’ he repeated ‘ a face without a heart’

The link to Shakespeare is reminiscent of Sibyl Vane. He like hamlet is about to face a tragic end.

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Chapter 16
In a small way, the dangers of excess even threaten Dorian's Aestheticism. Instead of admiring beauty, he craves ugliness. He once detested ugliness because it made things too real, but now he pursues it as his one reality: "The coarse brawl, the loathsome den, the crude violence of disordered life, the very vileness of thief and outcast, were more vivid, in their intense factuality of impression, than all the gracious shapes of art, the dreamy shadows of song." Wilde reveals the dangers of Aestheticism gone so wrong that it is the opposite of itself.

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1.’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.’

The crushing of the mirror ends his vanity. Image of violence

2.‘It was the living death of his own souls thattroubled him.’
I think by this time Dorian already was kind of dead.

3.‘There was blood on the painted feet, as though the thing had dropped blood even on the hand that had not held the knife.’

Things didnt get better as Dorian taught it will get.

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Problem 1
``Dorian's threatening aestheticism``

He once hated ugliness because it had made things real. Now instead of admiring beauty, he craves ugliness as his new reality. He needs the ugliness of his surroundings to aid in him forgetting the ugliness of his own soul.

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Problem 1
``Redemption``

Dorian hides in his room for 3 days and all he sees is James Vane's face.He finally decides to leave his room and go hunting with his friends.While hunting Dorian come across a beautiful hare and asks the hunters not to shoot it but they shoot it anyways.Henry seams to be more relaxed in this portion of the book, but he still plays devils advocate by trying to cause problems.Dorian has transformed from a relaxed man to a fearful person. His attitude changed when he realized he was being stalked by James

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Problem 1
``Fear of death``

Dorian spends most of the next day in his room. Feeling hunted, stalked, and sick with fear of death, he alternates between the certainty of punishment and an equal certainty that the wicked receive no such fate in this world. He concludes that the only morality is the success of the strong and the failure of the weak.

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Problem 1
``Fear or reality``

When the group hears a muted groan and the sound of a heavy fall. Lord Henry rushed to find that Dorian has fainted. When Dorian comes to, he refused to be alone. Despite his condition, he joins the others at dinner and tries to act jolly. Now and then, however, terror shoots through him as he recalls the cause of his faint: the face of James Vane observing him through a window.

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Problem 1
``A need to retire to hide from problems``

For once, Dorian is in no mood for flattery and says he wishes to retire early. The subject of the "yellow book" occurs to Dorian, and he asks Lord Henry never to lend the destructive volume to anyone else. They agree to meet the next morning.

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Chapter 17
Life at Selby Royal could not be more different from the secret world of Dorian Gray. Wilde writes about bright conversations, bright lights, and bright days. Such idyllic life adds to Dorian's discomfort when terror twice invades his country estate. Early on, he is seeking orchids but finds the face of James Vane. Just as he is recovering from the shock, a man is ominously killed by accident.

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Chapter 18
In this chapter Dorian seems to have little more compassion for the man than he has for the hare. He dislikes shooting and killing, but his chief concern, as usual, is himself. He sees the death as a bad omen, a threat to himself. When Thornton comes to Dorian's room, the master immediately pulls his chequebook out of a drawer. It may be kind of him to want to pay the family of the dead man, but Dorian would not think of visiting them or the corpse until he suspects that it might be James Vane.

Dorian's ultimate relief is ironic. Even as he feels joy at seeing James Vane dead, he is far from safe.

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Chapter 19
This chapter showed the after-dinner scene opens at Lord Henry's, Dorian is bursting with pride because of a recent act of decency. He has returned Hetty Merton to her country life after winning her devotion. Unfortunately, instead of seeing this act as only one small step, Dorian expects instant reward. When he checks the portrait for some sign of his newfound virtue, he finds only a look of cunning about the eyes and a wrinkle of hypocrisy in the mouth. There seems to be fresh blood on the hands. Instead of redeeming his soul, his act of supposed redemption has tarnished his soul even more because the act was motivated by selfishness.

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Chapter 20
In the novel's powerful final paragraphs, Dorian, in effect, commits suicide. He despises the figure in the portrait, but that is who he has become. When he slashes at the painting with the knife, appropriately the same knife that killed Basil, Dorian kills himself. The horrible cry, which awakens the servants and startles the men on the street, carries with it the agony of eighteen years of horror.