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Wilde, O. (1890). The picture of Dorian Gray. Wordsworth Editions.

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In conclusion, with this book, I was able to discover the impressive and unique way of literature of this great author called Dorian Gray, who through his writings managed to captivate my soul and my desire to delve deeper and deeper into history that seemed to me every time. more interesting, unique and say to dedicate enough time to be able to taste every word and every sentence of this great novel that left me reflecting on many topics that are touched on in the book.

I also learned many things, especially about the mentality and reasoning of society in London in the Victorian era and the way women and men were seen at that time. for example the value of art, beauty, and youth.

Finally, it can be seen how the obsession with beauty, youth, pleasure, and sin can corrupt a healthy person, especially when influenced by a friend or someone who is greatly admired.

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What light does its title throw on the story?

The title has a lot to do with the story because the portrait of Dorian Gray has a lot to do with it and is one of the main elements since it symbolizes the soul of the young Dorian Gray. so the title is closely related to the main object of the work.

Did you like reading the book?

Reading this book has been one of the most pleasant and pleasant experiences of this academic period and the class, since I was able to enter London in the Victorian era and be able to immerse myself in this wonderful work that left me with a lot of learning, especially with the thoughts and phrases of Lord Henry Wotton and investigate Dorian gray, let my imagination run wild imagining her beauty and her charms.

What aspects of the book gave you pleasure and why?

The aspects that gave me the most pleasure were the way Lord Henry Wotton spoke, being able to imagine the beautiful face of Dorian Gray, also imagining the gardens and the elements that decorated the corridor of Basil's house and Dorian Gray's, as well like some deep descriptions of the sunset, the sky, the fields, and the flowers.

Does the story primarily offer an escape?

With the story, I was able to escape from reality and travel to a world and time that I was able to discover through my imagination.

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The point of view is third-person omniscient

Why do you think the author chose to write from this perspective?

I think the author uses this point of view because he needs to describe both the thoughts of Dorian Gary and the other characters to make more sense of the novel.

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How do the characters change throughout the story?

In the story, we can see the development and evolution of the characters such as Dorian Gray very handsome who is young man with an innocent and pure soul, but with the passage of time and under the influence of Henry Wotton he acquires sinism, coldness and a deep egoism that pushes him to the pursuit of pleasure without any limits and the intervention of his morals, becoming a sinister and corrupt soul that torments him and makes him repent at the end when he saw his portrait full of stains that symbolized his impurity and evil. Henry Wotton remains the same throughout the story, a man with a distorted sense of reality who influences his friend Dorian throughout the story. Also, Basil Hallward becomes increasingly disappointed in his two friends and in his cold way of seeing the world and people. There is also Sybil Vane, a very pretty, talented, cheerful young lady in love with Dorian Gray, who discovers love and with it a reality, and when she does, she is despised by Dorian, which leads her to commit suicide. Other supporting characters include James Vane, Allan Campbell, Lady Victoria Wotton, Lady Agatha, Lord Fermor, Duchess of Monmouth, Mrs. Leaf, Victor, and Francis.

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This play takes place in London, England, in the West End, and Oxford England in the 19th century.

Is there anything to note about the role the time of day plays in the story?

The time of day is very important because this is how the routine of the young Dorian gray can be determined since he had activities to develop according to the time, for example in the morning he had tea at home, and in the afternoon he met with Basil or Henry and at night he went out to events, especially dinners or else he attended the theaters or the opera.

Is the location or change of location significant to the purpose of the overall work?

The changes of location were significant since they depended on who he was going to hang out with. Does the author intentionally present any social or cultural context to help his purpose? I think that the society of London helps the author a lot to express his purposes mainly because he makes some criticisms of the model of society and its inhabitants of that time.

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The book begins with an artist named Basil Hallward who is inspired by a very handsome and handsome young man named Dorian Gray, whom he praises for his physical gifts and brilliant youth, whom he introduces with his friend Lord Henry Wotton, a man with a mentality twisted who seems to know everything since it denotes wisdom and who expresses herself in such a perfect way that she manages to delight whoever is listening with her words. The young Dorian Gray, delighted with the way Henry talks, decides that he wants to be like him, letting himself be influenced by the wise words of Henry who praises his youth and his beauty. One afternoon while Dorian was posing for Basil and he was painting the most perfect portrait of the young man, Henry lets him know how valuable beauty and youth are and how temporary and ephemeral they are. Dorian before the idea of ​​losing his youth and his beauty enters in despair and hatred against the painting, wishing that it is the painting that grows old and not him. The second event enters when Dorian falls in love for the first time, here we see an enthusiastic and dreamy young man in love with a young actress, he has many illusions about her but at the first disappointment, he gets very upset and treats her very badly, to which he young girl in love corresponds with a suicide. When Dorian begins to repent and want to apologize, Henry drowns these feelings in the young man, making him cold and indifferent to the death of his first love. The third event is the assimilation that her body and face will remain young forever but that her sins and the stains on her soul will be reflected and marked in the painting created by Basil, just as she had wished from the first moment, she saw her. he saw. The fourth important event is the pursuit of excessive pleasure that turns the young man into a corrupt being with evil and selfish soul, who corrupts those around him and who has a distorted perception of life and society thanks to the influence of Henry. the next important event is when he murders Basil since he cannot assimilate seeing in the portrait the reflection of his stained and impure soul and blames the artist for having painted his portrait, that is why he murders him, then blackmails one of his friends to eliminate the body, who ends up committing suicide out of guilt. Then as one of the most important events and when the story ends is when Dorian cannot bear the weight of his conscience and the fear that chases him everywhere, that is why he decides to change and erase the stains on his soul and tries to stab him the painting and with the cycle, he ends up killing himself. In this work, the order is of great importance for the development of the character because it is through this order that we can see the character of Dorian Gray evolve.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray is an excellent book if I dare say, one of the best works of the English writer Oscar Wilde. Written in the year 1890, the book contains an intriguing plot that traps the reader within its delicate literary style which is very difficult to put on pause once you have started reading this very interesting and splendid novel, which leads the reader to question the moral judgments of Lord Henry Wotton and the artistic and personal simplicity of Basil Hallward, but above all to discover and decipher the tangled personality of Dorian Gray, who despite being a young man with a pure and beautiful soul, ends up being influenced by the atrocities of Lord Henry, obsessing over his beauty and youth and then by the pleasures of life, thus finally becoming a cold, evil and selfish being who causes the death of an innocent young girl without any remorse, murders one of her best friends and corrupts those around him.

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What is the author’s purpose? (Theme of the book)

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What is the author’s purpose? (Theme of the book)

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The theme of the book is especially about the worth of beauty, youth, and all the superficial things beyond moral values, intelligence, reasoning, and personality.

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Plot

The book begins with an artist named Basil Hallward who is inspired by a very handsome and handsome young man named Dorian Gray, whom he praises for his physical gifts and brilliant youth, whom he introduces with his friend Lord Henry Wotton, a man with a mentality twisted who seems to know everything since it denotes wisdom and who expresses herself in such a perfect way that she manages to delight whoever is listening with her words. The young Dorian Gray, delighted with the way Henry talks, decides that he wants to be like him, letting himself be influenced by the wise words of Henry who praises his youth and his beauty. One afternoon while Dorian was posing for Basil and he was painting the most perfect portrait of the young man, Henry lets him know how valuable beauty and youth are and how temporary and ephemeral they are. Dorian before the idea of ​​losing his youth and his beauty enters in despair and hatred against the painting, wishing that it is the painting that grows old and not him. The second event enters when Dorian falls in love for the first time, here we see an enthusiastic and dreamy young man in love with a young actress, he has many illusions about her but at the first disappointment, he gets very upset and treats her very badly, to which he young girl in love corresponds with a suicide. When Dorian begins to repent and want to apologize, Henry drowns these feelings in the young man, making him cold and indifferent to the death of his first love. The third event is the assimilation that her body and face will remain young forever but that her sins and the stains on her soul will be reflected and marked in the painting created by Basil, just as she had wished from the first moment, she saw her. he saw. The fourth important event is the pursuit of excessive pleasure that turns the young man into a corrupt being with evil and selfish soul, who corrupts those around him and who has a distorted perception of life and society thanks to the influence of Henry. the next important event is when he murders Basil since he cannot assimilate seeing in the portrait the reflection of his stained and impure soul and blames the artist for having painted his portrait, that is why he murders him, then blackmails one of his friends to eliminate the body, who ends up committing suicide out of guilt. Then as one of the most important events and when the story ends is when Dorian cannot bear the weight of his conscience and the fear that chases him everywhere, that is why he decides to change and erase the stains on his soul and tries to stab him the painting and with the cycle, he ends up killing himself. In this work, the order is of great importance for the development of the character because it is through this order that we can see the character of Dorian Gray evolve.

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What light does its title throw on the story? 

The title has a lot to do with the story because the portrait of Dorian Gray has a lot to do with it and is one of the main elements since it symbolizes the soul of the young Dorian Gray. so the title is closely related to the main object of the work.

Did you like reading the book?

Reading this book has been one of the most pleasant and pleasant experiences of this academic period and the class, since I was able to enter London in the Victorian era and be able to immerse myself in this wonderful work that left me with a lot of learning, especially with the thoughts and phrases of Lord Henry Wotton and investigate Dorian gray, let my imagination run wild imagining her beauty and her charms.

What aspects of the book gave you pleasure and why?

The aspects that gave me the most pleasure were the way Lord Henry Wotton spoke, being able to imagine the beautiful face of Dorian Gray, also imagining the gardens and the elements that decorated the corridor of Basil's house and Dorian Gray's, as well like some deep descriptions of the sunset, the sky, the fields, and the flowers.

Does the story primarily offer an escape?

With the story, I was able to escape from reality and travel to a world and time that I was able to discover through my imagination.