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“You have gone from corruption to corruption, and now you have culminated in crime. In doing what I am going to do, what you force me to do, it is not of your life that I am thinkong.” - thematic idea of corruption: Corruption is taking away from his ident and he no longer views Dorian as a friend. Corrupting one’s soul leads to destruction of human relationships.

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"How quickly it had all been done! He felt strangely calm, and, walking over to the window, opened it, and stepped out on the balcony."

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Page 114 “He had taken the flower out of his coat, and smelling it, or pretending to do so... said Dorian Gray, crushing the flower in his hand.” The crushing of the flower forshadows the murder that is about to occur.

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Dorian Gray overreacts to a very casual question on page 194 and Henry realizes something is wrong, saying "You are not yourself tonight."

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“Yes—Harden. You must go down to Richmond at once, see Harden personally, and tell him to send twice as many orchids as I ordered, and to have as few white ones as possible. In fact, I don’t want any white ones.”

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In chapter 14, “Alan, it was a murder. I killed him. You don’t know what he had made me suffer. Whatever my life is, he had more to do with the making or marring of it than poor Harry has had. He may not have intended it, the result was the same” he is confessing, because he is guilty, to Alan

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“So you think that it is only God who sees the soul, Basil?” (First pg of ch 13). Basil created the painting of Dorian, similar to how God created man, and now he will be the one witnessing the soul of what he has made

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“ He felt strangely calm, and walking over to the window, opened it and stepped out on the balcony. The wind had blown the fog away, and the sky was like a monstrous peacock’s tail, started with myriads of golden eyes.” (114). The world somewhat clears of bad and nature fills with good, contrasting the fact that he just murdered a close friend

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“He read it over twice, folded it carefully, and pushed it across the table” (163)
Letter Dorian gives to Alan, so he helps him with the body.

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After the murder, at the party:
"But at dinner he could not eat anything... He drank eagerly, and his thirst seemed to increase."
Lack of nourishment is a sign of guilt, reminiscent of Macbeth's curse (also the permanent blood on the portrait's hand).

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“He drank eagerly, and his thirst seemed to increase”
This lack of nourshiment is a sign of guilt.

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Ch. 13: page 162: “Dorian Gray turned slowly around, and looked at him with tear-dimmed eyes. ‘It is never too late, Dorian. Let us kneel down and try if we can not remember a prayer. Isn’t there a verse somewhere, ‘Though your sins be as scarlet, yet I will make them as white as snow’?”The quote “Though your sins be as scarlet, yet I will make them as white as snow?” is a reference to the Bible in Isaiah 1:18 which talkes about sins.

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The French poem at the very beginning of chapter 14 translates to “on a chromatic scale the breast of peries dripping the adriatic Venus comes out of the water its pink and white body. the domes on the azure waves following the sentence with the pure outline, swell like round gorges that raises a sigh of love. The skiff tackles and drops me off, throwing his mooring at the pillar, in front of a pink facade, on the marble of a staircase.” Sounds like it is describing a painting with a hidden meaning, which is quite fitting, because that’s what happened with the painting of Dorian Gray.

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Ch. 13: "He knew that he had tarnished himself, filled his mind with corruption, and given horror to his fancy; that he had been an evil influence to others, and had experienced a terrible joy in being so; and that of the lives that had crossed his own it had been the fairest and the most full of promise that he had brought to shame. But was it all irretrievable? Was there no hope for him? It was better not to think of the past."

Dorian's approach to his sins after Basil's murder has been primarily to push them away and refuse to empathize with his victims and acknowledge the full impact of his actions.

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"How quickly it had all been done! He felt strangely calm, and walking over to the window, opened it and stepped out on the balcony. The wind had blown the fog away, and the sky was like a monstrous peacock's tail, starred with myriads of golden eyes." (ch. 13) Dorian is, as stated strangely calm after murdering someone and Wilde continues to establish a calm mood in the reader by explaining the view of a peaceful sky from Dorian's balcony.

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Ch. 13: "He had taken the flower out of his coat, and was smelling it, or pretending to do so.... 'Years ago, when I was a boy,' said Dorian Gray, crushing the flower in his hand"
The flower is unidentified, and him crushing it probably symbolizes his loss of innocence or something.

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“Crushing the flower in his hand” Dorains always curropting people who are helpless. Just like killing the flower who can’t fight back obviously.

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“There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them”

The author develops the idea that the evil deeds are left in the past, and that the evil only lives on if you choose to remember it.

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“The thing that had been sitting at the table was gone”
Refers to Dorian as “the thing”, can’t face the guilt that comes along with the fact that he murdered a living human being who was once his friend, easier to refer to it as “a thing”

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“‘You are the one man in the world who is entitled to know everything about me. You have more to do with my life than you think’” (154). Dorian is constantly changing who his “best friend” is throughout the novel