The Picture of Dorian Gray by Nichola https://padlet.com/nbendle/m450wj2fqa11 en-us 2018-02-09 14:51:25 UTC 2025-10-19 02:28:18 UTC hello@padlet.com An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. What have lost the abstract sense of beauty" (14) nbendle https://padlet.com/nbendle/m450wj2fqa11/wish/231035641 Basil is expressing his distress over the importance he has placed in his art. "We have lost the abstract of beauty" suggests that he believes art is mean to be abstract (not representative of real life). ]]> 2018-02-13 14:15:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nbendle/m450wj2fqa11/wish/231035641 " I hope this girl is good" https://padlet.com/nbendle/m450wj2fqa11/wish/231037019 "She's better than good--she is beautiful"
(72)]]> 2018-02-13 14:17:31 UTC https://padlet.com/nbendle/m450wj2fqa11/wish/231037019 "Art is always more abstract than we fancy. Form and colour tell us of form and colour- that is all." (111) https://padlet.com/nbendle/m450wj2fqa11/wish/231039070
Basil is expressing to Dorian that he feels that he was silly to think that the art an artist produces says anything bout the artist himself, and if anything, conceals the artist. Art is just art. Beauty in art is just beauty in art.]]> 2018-02-13 14:20:37 UTC https://padlet.com/nbendle/m450wj2fqa11/wish/231039070 "Life has everything in store for you, Dorian. There is nothing that you, with your extraordinary good looks, will not be able to do." (101) https://padlet.com/nbendle/m450wj2fqa11/wish/231039691 2018-02-13 14:21:33 UTC https://padlet.com/nbendle/m450wj2fqa11/wish/231039691 "you must not look at it. i do not wish you too" (Dorian upset and not wanting the painter to look at the portrait because it reveals his bad side) https://padlet.com/nbendle/m450wj2fqa11/wish/231040290 (108)]]> 2018-02-13 14:22:27 UTC https://padlet.com/nbendle/m450wj2fqa11/wish/231040290 "The very sharpness of the contrast used to quicken his sense of pleasure. He grew more and more enamoured of his own beauty, more and more interested in the corruption of his own soul." (124) https://padlet.com/nbendle/m450wj2fqa11/wish/231042638 2018-02-13 14:25:09 UTC https://padlet.com/nbendle/m450wj2fqa11/wish/231042638 "And beauty is a form of Genius- is higher, indeed than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or spring-time, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned." (24) https://padlet.com/nbendle/m450wj2fqa11/wish/231042872 2018-02-13 14:25:33 UTC https://padlet.com/nbendle/m450wj2fqa11/wish/231042872 "Youth! Youth! There is absolutely nothing in the world but youth! (25) https://padlet.com/nbendle/m450wj2fqa11/wish/231043159 2018-02-13 14:26:00 UTC https://padlet.com/nbendle/m450wj2fqa11/wish/231043159 By convincing him looks are what determine wether you are succesfull or not https://padlet.com/nbendle/m450wj2fqa11/wish/231047382 2018-02-13 14:33:35 UTC https://padlet.com/nbendle/m450wj2fqa11/wish/231047382 ""Beauty is a form of Genius [...] It has its divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it."" (24) https://padlet.com/nbendle/m450wj2fqa11/wish/231047789 Here Lord Henry likens aesthetics to intellectuality while calling beauty 'Genius'. This implies that, much like intilectual ability, beauty will take one far in life.

]]> 2018-02-13 14:34:31 UTC https://padlet.com/nbendle/m450wj2fqa11/wish/231047789 "Ah, realize your youth while you have it. Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar" (24-25) nbendle https://padlet.com/nbendle/m450wj2fqa11/wish/231047913 Lord Henry is suggesting that youth/beauty is what gives Dorian power. At the beginning of the novel Dorian is known as a philanthropist; however, towards the end of the novel Dorian shifts his focus away from helping people because of Lord Henry's influence. He tells him not to waste his time on people "lesser" than him. ]]> 2018-02-13 14:34:47 UTC https://padlet.com/nbendle/m450wj2fqa11/wish/231047913 "Sibyl Vane moved like a creature from a finer world. Her body swayed, as she danced, as a plant sways in the water. The curves of her throat were like the curves of a white lily. Her hands seemed to be made of cool ivory." https://padlet.com/nbendle/m450wj2fqa11/wish/231048077
Here Dorian is comparing Sibyls actions and looks to all these beautiful things in a aesthetic way]]> 2018-02-13 14:35:04 UTC https://padlet.com/nbendle/m450wj2fqa11/wish/231048077 "Ah, realize your youth nbendle https://padlet.com/nbendle/m450wj2fqa11/wish/231048363 2018-02-13 14:35:31 UTC https://padlet.com/nbendle/m450wj2fqa11/wish/231048363 "Because you have the most marvellous youth, and youth is the one worth having" https://padlet.com/nbendle/m450wj2fqa11/wish/231050683 (Lord Henry is explaining how dorian is blessed with looks as a young man and that he has a marvellous youth but will age poorly)
(28) Evan]]> 2018-02-13 14:38:37 UTC https://padlet.com/nbendle/m450wj2fqa11/wish/231050683 "To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible." 28 https://padlet.com/nbendle/m450wj2fqa11/wish/231052526 Lord Henry is trying to convince Dorian that he has everything that is valuable in society. ]]> 2018-02-13 14:41:27 UTC https://padlet.com/nbendle/m450wj2fqa11/wish/231052526