https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf en-us 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC 2025-11-02 05:57:17 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f47b.png ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194720 Classism, linking back to Dorian's mother, who was incredibly beautiful, arisocratic and had many men aspiring to marry her, yet decided to marry somebody she truly loved despite him being in the lowest class and having no money.]]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194720 ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194721 Juxtaposing the large quantity of, dull, "dark leaves" (the rest of the people inside the theater) with the punctuality of a "pale rose", which is already beautiful, but could be even better if under a better environment (a better theater).]]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194721 ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194722 'It seemed to me that all my life had been narrowed to one perfect point of rose coloured joy' - Dorian]]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194722 ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194723 Sibyl Vane is metaphorically trapped in her acting cerear before she is freed by Dorian.]]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194723 ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194724 More intertextual references here to Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and As You Like It.
Following in Henry's footsteps and enjoying the sensation of being intimate with multiple women. ]]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194724 ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194725 Ironic, as Dorian Grey, unknown to himself at the time, is only in love with Sibyl Vane's acting tallent and the character she portrays. Eventually doing "her wrong" and causing her suicide when he breaks up with her for acting poorly infront of his friends.]]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194725 ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194726 Hinting towards Dorian's implied repressed homosexuality, first hinted at with his intimate relationship with Basil]]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194726 ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194727 Lord Henry views marrige as artificial and by engaging in marrige is a final verdict, a persons mind can be changed at any time so it is better to act before the ring is placed on the finger as divorce was not legal during the victorian era, however unfaithful relationships were common.]]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194727 ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194728 'Prince Charming rules life for us now' - Sybil]]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194728 ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194729 ‘Only swell people go to the park' - James]]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194729 ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194730 'This young dandy who was making love to her could mean her no good' - James]]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194730 ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194731 'Prince Charming, my wonderful lover, my god of graces. But I am poor beside him. Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door love flies in through the window' 
- Sybil]]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194731 ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194732 'He wants to enslave you'  ‘I shudder at the thought of being free' - James ]]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194732 ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194733 'If this man wrongs my sister, I will find out who he is, track him down and kill him like a dog. I swear it' - James]]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194733 ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194734 Human emotions and euphoria are the highest value thing in the world, as they cannot be obtained through artificial means and have to be obtained authentically.]]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194734 ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194735 Price - How much something is sold for
Value - How much something should be sold for

Henry is insinuating people waste money in persits of hedonism, but do not spend money on things that will actual bring them pleasure.]]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194735 ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194736 Labarinth - A large, difficult maze, usually inhabbited by a monster.
Contrasting the usual environments, described with beauties from other lands, compared to England's natural goresque]]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194736 ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194737 Tawdry - Showy, but cheap or poor quality

Cupid - Greek god of love and romance
Cornucopia - Greek god of abundance and nourishment]]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194737 ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194738 Once again objectifying women, and grouping all women under a stigma, assuming they believe in a Hellenic Ideal on their behalf

]]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194738 ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194739 Lord Henry objectifies women, basing their atributes on their appearannce in a very aesthetic action]]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194739 ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194741 Dorian is becoming more absorbed in Henry and others are begining to notice. Furherore, Lady Henry calls him "Mr Gray" instead of Dorian like the rest of the cast.]]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194741 ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194743  “What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in England, and make the old men jealous, if old men are ever capable of any emotion.” LH]]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194743 ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194744  “Poets are not as scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.” LH]]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194744 ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194745 'Rich odour of Roses']]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194745 ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194747 'Making him think of those pallid Jade faced painters of Tokyo' 

- colonialism 1]]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194747 ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194748 'Portrait of a young man of Extraordinary personal beauty'

- aestheticism 
- demonstrates Dorians initial presentation and how he is seen even before we actually meet him]]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194748 ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194750  “There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral – immoral from the scientific point of view.”  LH]]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194750 ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194751  “One of the great secrets of life – to cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul. You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.” LH]]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194751 ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194753  “Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.” LH

Gender - placing the blame onto the women, "spoil" the verb is used to show the damage they create by being too over bearing ]]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194753 ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194754 'He has a very bad influence over all his friends with the single exception of myself']]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194754 ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194755 'Had touched some secret chord that had never been touched before. But that he felt was now vibrating and throbbing to curious pulses']]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194755 ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194756 'That is one of the great secrets of life- to cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul']]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194756 ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194757 'Because you have the most marvellous youth and youth is the one thing worth having'

- Links to aestheticism and hellenic ideal
- Manipulating Dorian into thinking that life is all about the way you look 
- Foreshadowing that his youth and innocence will soon leave him]]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194757 ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194759 A boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man']]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194759 ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194760 "A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion"]]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194760 ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194761 'He would seek to dominate him']]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194761 ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194762 'Talking to him was like playing upon an exquisite violin. He answered to every touch and thrill of the bow'

-Objectification and manipulation
-Showing that he's an instrument that will be played by those around him in society- trying to sculpt him into this perfect being]]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194762 ogregory8 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194763 I thought you dandies never got up till two and we're not visible till 5']]> 2022-11-30 08:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403194763 17lbarnes https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403221647 "Ectasy of happiness dominated her"
Narration 

]]> 2022-11-30 08:51:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403221647 17lbarnes https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403222405 "You have killed my love", he muttered 

]]> 2022-11-30 08:52:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403222405 17lbarnes https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403223726 "you have killed my love, you used her to stir my imagination. Now you dont even stir my curosity. You simply produce no effect"
DG

]]> 2022-11-30 08:53:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403223726 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403224390 We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.]]> 2022-11-30 08:54:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403224390 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403225745 Was it true? Had the portrait really changed? DG]]> 2022-11-30 08:55:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403225745 17lbarnes https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403226188 "You have thrown it all away, you are shallow and stupid. My God! how mad i was to love you! What a fool I have been! You are  nothing to me now, I will never see you again. I will never think of you" - Dorian to Sybil

- Feels no remorse to that he may have played a part in her death
-He's become too self obsessed and lost all empathy to others

]]> 2022-11-30 08:55:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403226188 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403226521 He drew the screen aside an saw himself face to face.]]> 2022-11-30 08:56:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403226521 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403228879 I can’t bear the idea of my soul being hideous DG]]> 2022-11-30 08:58:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403228879 17lbarnes https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403229770 " Is is not good for ones morals to see bad acting. Besides, I dont suppose you will want your wife to act, so what does it matter if she plays juliet like a wooden doll" 
LH

]]> 2022-11-30 08:59:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403229770 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403230910 She had no right to kill herself. It was selfish of her. DG

- He has lost his purity and innocence
- Resorted to blaming others 
- Not taking into account his own feelings as well as others]]> 2022-11-30 09:00:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403230910 17cbailey https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403232847 2022-11-30 09:02:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403232847 17cbailey https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403233099 2022-11-30 09:02:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403233099 17cbailey https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403233361 2022-11-30 09:02:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403233361 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403234032 It seems to me like a wonderful ending to a wonderful play. It has all the terrible beauty of a Greek Tragedy.

Dorian romanticises Sibyl’s death and sees it as an extension of her theatrical career.
Another mention of Greece as the ideal of aesthetics.]]> 2022-11-30 09:03:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403234032 17cbailey https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403234217 2022-11-30 09:03:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403234217 17cbailey https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403234443 2022-11-30 09:03:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403234443 17cbailey https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403234617 2022-11-30 09:04:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403234617 17lbarnes https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403235115 "There were passions inside of him that would find their terrible outlet, dreams that would make the shadows of their evil real" 
narration

]]> 2022-11-30 09:04:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403235115 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403236162 "His hands were cleched,and the pupils of his eyes were like blue disks of fire."]]> 2022-11-30 09:05:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403236162 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403236218 Never trust a woman who wears mauve, or a woman over 35 who wears pink ribbons.
LH]]> 2022-11-30 09:05:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403236218 17lbarnes https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403239134 "When the sound of footsteps had died away, Dorian locked the door and put the key in his pocket. No one would ever look upon the horrible thing, No eye would ever see his shame"
Narration

]]> 2022-11-30 09:08:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403239134 17omrowinski https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403239439 " Cry of terror broke from Dorian Gray's lips and he rushed between the painter and the screen"]]> 2022-11-30 09:08:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403239439 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403239454 I am afraid that women appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. LH]]> 2022-11-30 09:08:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403239454 17lbarnes https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403241351 "The sins of the world were passing in dumb show before him"
Narration

]]> 2022-11-30 09:10:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403241351 17omrowinski https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403242299 " I should like to have something more of her than the memory of a few kisses and some broken pathetic words"]]> 2022-11-30 09:11:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403242299 17lbarnes https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403243426 "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."
DG

]]> 2022-11-30 09:12:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403243426 17omrowinski https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403244039 "I was dominated, soul, brain and power by you" ]]> 2022-11-30 09:13:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403244039 17lbarnes https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403245581 "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."
Narration

]]> 2022-11-30 09:14:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403245581 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403246629 Eternal youth, infinite passions, pleasures subtle and secret, wild joys and wilder sins- he was to have all these things. DG]]> 2022-11-30 09:15:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403246629 17omrowinski https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403246657 "You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream." ]]> 2022-11-30 09:15:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403246657 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403249508 If the picture was to alter, it was to alter. That was all. Why inquire too closely into it?
For there was to be a real pleasure in watching it.
He was to be able to follow his mind into secret places.]]> 2022-11-30 09:18:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403249508 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403251445 When the blood crept from its face, and left behind a pallid mask of chalk with leaden eyes, he would keep the glamour of boyhood.]]> 2022-11-30 09:20:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403251445 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403252098 Like the gods of the Greeks, he would be strong, and fleet, and joyous.]]> 2022-11-30 09:21:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403252098 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403252432 He would be safe. That was everything.]]> 2022-11-30 09:21:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403252432 17omrowinski https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403252921 " 'To exhibit it! You want to exhibit it?' exclaimed Dorian Gray, a strange sense of terror creeping over him." 

Dorian's questioning why Basil wants to exhibit the painting and has a sense of paranoia over him with "strange sense of terror creeping" by personify the noun "terror" suggest that Dorian is afraid of his exposure to his corruption and gothic imagary with the words of "strange" and "terror ". ]]> 2022-11-30 09:22:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403252921 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403253411 For years Dorian Gray could not free himself from the influence of this book.]]> 2022-11-30 09:22:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403253411 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403254100 He had them bound in different colours so that they might suit his various moods.]]> 2022-11-30 09:23:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403254100 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403254860 The whole book seemed to him to contain the story of his own life written before he had lived it.]]> 2022-11-30 09:24:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403254860 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403391624 Strange rumours crept through London and became the chatter of clubs, could not believe anything to his dishonour when they saw him.]]> 2022-11-30 11:29:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403391624 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403392181 There was something in the purity of his face that rebuked them.]]> 2022-11-30 11:30:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403392181 17croberts1 https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403393499 A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion - narrator 

Foreshadowing Dorians own future
Nature vs nurture
Influenced by his mother's own personal pursuit of pleasure - hedonism

]]> 2022-11-30 11:31:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403393499 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403394678 His mere presence seemed to recall to them the memory of innocence that they had tarnished.]]> 2022-11-30 11:32:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403394678 17omrowinski https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403395343 "She lived her finest tragedy. She was always a heroine" ]]> 2022-11-30 11:33:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403395343 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403398640 Looking now at the evil and aging face on the canvas and now at the fair young face that laughed back at him from the polished glass.]]> 2022-11-30 11:36:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403398640 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403399549 He grew more and more enamoured of his own beauty, more and more interested in the corruption of his own soul.]]> 2022-11-30 11:37:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403399549 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403399939 The signs of sin or the signs of age.

Dorian sees sinning as something that happens with aging and that it is inevitable .]]> 2022-11-30 11:37:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403399939 17mdowning https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403400156 ‘One day, when you are old and wrinkled and ugly, when thought has seared your forehead with its lines, and passion branded your lips with its hideous fires, you will feel it, you will feel it terribly’

- aestheticism 
- extent of value of youth 
- influence - lord henry imposing his ideas and beliefs into Dorian ]]> 2022-11-30 11:38:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403400156 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403400892 He mocked the misshapen body and the failing limbs.]]> 2022-11-30 11:38:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403400892 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403402385 He had mad hungers that grew more ravenous the more he fed them.

The adjective “ravenous” suggests there is something animalistic in these “mad hungers” that Dorian is feeling and that the things he is hungry for are less than respectable and morally correct.]]> 2022-11-30 11:40:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403402385 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403403505 They saw Dorian Gray as the true realisation of a type of which they had often dreamed in Eton or Oxford days.

Dorian is the scholarly, upper class Brit ideal, he is Grecian in his beauty and English in his manners.]]> 2022-11-30 11:41:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403403505 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403404249 Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts.]]> 2022-11-30 11:42:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403404249 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403405936 As Lord Henry prophesied, a new hedonism that was to recreate life and to save it from that harsh, uncomely Puritanism that is having, in our own day, a curious revival.]]> 2022-11-30 11:43:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403405936 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403408335 It was rumoured of him once that he was about to join the Roman Catholic communion; and certainly the Roman ritual had always been a great attraction for him.

Catholic Church is more decorative, ceremonial and beautiful which would appeal to Dorian’s aesthetic values and also confession and donation allow your sins to be forgiven.]]> 2022-11-30 11:46:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403408335 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403409834 Curious stories became current about him after he had passed his 25th year.]]> 2022-11-30 11:47:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403409834 17omrowinski https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403411228 ",but you were a man whom no pure-mined girl should be allowed to know, and whom no chaste women should sit in the same room with." ]]> 2022-11-30 11:49:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403411228 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403411257 Men would whisper in corners, or pass him with a sneer, or look at him with cold, searching eyes, as though they were determined to discover his secret.]]> 2022-11-30 11:49:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403411257 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403412189 Those who had been most intimate with him appeared after a time, to shun him. Women who had wildly adored him, were seen to grow pallid.]]> 2022-11-30 11:50:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403412189 17omrowinski https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403412975 "Said Dorian Gray, bitting his lips, with a note of infinite contempt in his voice." ]]> 2022-11-30 11:50:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403412975 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403413458 His great wealth was a certain element of security.]]> 2022-11-30 11:51:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403413458 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403414246 It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals.

Wealth and family allows people to look over scandal to a certain extent.]]> 2022-11-30 11:52:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403414246 17omrowinski https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403418018 " ' Yes,' he continued, coming closer to him, and looking steadfastly into his stern eyes, I shall show you my soul. You shall see the thing that you fancy only God can see. " ]]> 2022-11-30 11:55:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403418018 17lbarnes https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403418455 "She trembled all over and shook like a white narcissus. Then she flung herself on her knees and kissed my hands." -Dorian

- White connotes purity and innocence- suggests Sibyl does not yet know how beautiful she is
-White narcissus flower is seen to represent awareness and inner reflection]]> 2022-11-30 11:55:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403418455 17omrowinski https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403426251 " Dorian Gray smiled. There was a curl of contempt in his lips." ]]> 2022-11-30 12:03:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2403426251 17cbailey https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2411907853 Helenic ideals dictate that beautiful people cannot be sinners, the belief that lead to Dorian's downfall into sin.]]> 2022-12-07 09:24:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2411907853 17cbailey https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2411925528 Despite agreeing and repeating most of Harry's ideals, Dorian can still disagree with some of his more outlandish statements.]]> 2022-12-07 09:42:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2411925528 17cbailey https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2411964186 2022-12-07 10:19:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2411964186 17cbailey https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2411968340 Lord Henry still preaches anti-marital views, after telling Dorian he should get married.
Hypocracy.]]> 2022-12-07 10:23:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2411968340 17mdowning https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2416446626 He felt a wild longing for the unstained purity of his boyhood - his rose-white boyhood]]> 2022-12-10 17:02:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2416446626 17mdowning https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2416446833 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 doing so]]> 2022-12-10 17:03:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2416446833 17mdowning https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2416447006 In what a monstrous moment of pride and passion he had prayed that the portrait should bear the burden of his days, and keep the unsullied splendour of eternal youth!]]> 2022-12-10 17:03:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2416447006 17mdowning https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2416447147 He loathed his own beauty…it was his beauty that had ruined him, his beauty and the youth that he had prayed for]]> 2022-12-10 17:04:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2416447147 17mdowning https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2416447430 Living death of his own soul
(the portrait)]]> 2022-12-10 17:04:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2416447430 17mdowning https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2416447582 For it was an unjust mirror, this mirror of his soul that he was looking at]]> 2022-12-10 17:05:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2416447582 17mdowning https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2416447765 It had kept him awake at night. When he was away, he had been bought to terror lest any other eyes should look upon it]]> 2022-12-10 17:05:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2416447765 17mdowning https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2416447902 It would kill the past, and when that was dead, he would be free. It would kill this hideous soul-life, and without its warnings, he would be at peace]]> 2022-12-10 17:06:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2416447902 17mdowning https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2416448266 The scarlet dew that that spotted the hand seemed brighter, and more like blood newly spilled
And why was the red stain larger than it had been? It seemed to have crept like a horrible disease over the wrinkled fingers ]]> 2022-12-10 17:07:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2416448266 17omrowinski https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2416687199 “Ugliness is one of the seven deadly virtues, Gladys. You, as a good Tory, Must not underrate them. Beer, the Bible, and the seven deadly virtues have made England what she is.”]]> 2022-12-11 08:56:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2416687199 17omrowinski https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2416695313 “We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.”]]> 2022-12-11 09:19:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2416695313 17omrowinski https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2416695460 “ ‘Ah! Then, you never really love, Mr. Gray’ answered the Duchess with mock sadness”]]> 2022-12-11 09:19:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2416695460 17omrowinski https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2416695604 “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.”]]> 2022-12-11 09:19:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2416695604 17cbailey https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2418944654 Lord Henry's opinions are heard by many, meaning his negative reputaition precedes him, possibly also effecting Dorian's]]> 2022-12-13 09:39:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2418944654 17cbailey https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2418947506 I'm starting to get bored of writing that Lord Henry is sexist-]]> 2022-12-13 09:42:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2418947506 17cbailey https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2418952345 Henry is completly seflish, cursing a man and his father for wanting to spend planned time with eachother instead of suddenly spending time with him.]]> 2022-12-13 09:47:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2418952345 17cbailey https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2418956968 Dorian is a bad liar, and trying to form a facade to the "inquisitive" Lord Henry is going to be a challenge which he isn't ready for.]]> 2022-12-13 09:51:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2418956968 17cbailey https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2418960805 2022-12-13 09:54:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2418960805 17cbailey https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2418962305 Bringing back the eye motif from earlier chapters]]> 2022-12-13 09:56:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2418962305 17lbarnes https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419705109 "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 actuality of impression, than all the gracious shapes of Art, the dreamy shadows of Song."]]> 2022-12-13 19:40:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419705109 17lbarnes https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419706309 "His soul, certainly, was sick to death. Was it true that the senses could cure it? Innocent blood had been spilt. What could atone for that? Ah! for that there was no atonement; but though forgiveness was impossible, forgetfulness was possible still, and he was determined to forget, to stamp the thing out, to crush it as one would crush the adder that had stung one."]]> 2022-12-13 19:41:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419706309 17lbarnes https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419706948 "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."]]> 2022-12-13 19:42:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419706948 17lbarnes https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419707780 "To cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul." ]]> 2022-12-13 19:42:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419707780 17lbarnes https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419708679 "They moved like monstrous marionettes and made gestures like live things. He hated them. A dull rage was in his heart. As they turned a corner, a woman yelled something at them from an open door, and two men ran after the hansom for about a hundred yards. The driver beat at them with his whip."]]> 2022-12-13 19:43:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419708679 17lbarnes https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419709569 "It is said that passion makes one think in a circle. Certainly with hideous iteration the bitten lips of Dorian Gray shaped and reshaped those subtle words that dealt with soul and sense, till he had found in them the full expression, as it were, of his mood, and justified, by intellectual approval."

]]> 2022-12-13 19:44:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419709569 17lbarnes https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419710203 "A crooked smile, like a Malay crease, writhed across the face of one of the women. "We are very proud to-night," she sneered."]]> 2022-12-13 19:44:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419710203 17lbarnes https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419710811 "Dorian Gray hurried along the quay through the drizzling rain. His meeting with Adrian Singleton had strangely moved him, and he wondered if the ruin of that young life was really to be laid at his door, as Basil Hallward had said to him with such infamy of insult"]]> 2022-12-13 19:45:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419710811 17lbarnes https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419711285 Dorian's arms fell to his side. Paralysed with terror, he did not know what to do. Suddenly a wild hope flashed across his brain. "Stop," he cried. "How long ago is it since your sister died? Quick, tell me!"]]> 2022-12-13 19:46:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419711285 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419726619 ‘Sick with a wild terror of dying, and yet indifferent to life itself’ 
Dorian doesn’t want to die but doesn’t really want to live]]> 2022-12-13 19:59:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419726619 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419728083 ‘There was something terribly logical in the imagination’
Sweeping statements to make himself feel better.]]> 2022-12-13 20:00:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419728083 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419728965 ‘The mask of youth had saved him’
Disguise 
Been young for so long James Vane won’t believe that he is Dorian.]]> 2022-12-13 20:01:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419728965 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419729543 ‘In what a wild hour of madness he had killed his friend’]]> 2022-12-13 20:02:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419729543 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419731260 ‘‘Don’t shoot it Geoffrey, let it live’]]> 2022-12-13 20:03:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419731260 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419731977 ‘It would not look well to carry on’ LH]]> 2022-12-13 20:04:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419731977 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419734011 ‘Ennui, Dorian. That is the one sin for which there is no forgiveness’ LH]]> 2022-12-13 20:06:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419734011 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419734612 ‘The wretched peasant who just died is better off than I am’ Dorian ]]> 2022-12-13 20:07:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419734612 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419735140 ‘I have no terror of death. It is the coming of death that terrifies me’ Dorian ]]> 2022-12-13 20:07:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419735140 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419812302 ‘ I wish I could love’
‘I am too much concentrated on myself’
Dorian ]]> 2022-12-13 21:49:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419812302 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419814412 ‘ a terrible hope fluttered past him’]]> 2022-12-13 21:52:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419814412 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419815282 ‘ the man who had been shot in the thicket was James Vane’]]> 2022-12-13 21:53:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419815282 17ekaler https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419815668 ‘ his eyes were full of tears as he knew he was safe’]]> 2022-12-13 21:54:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2419815668 17cbailey https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2526831220 2023-03-22 09:09:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ogregory8/p3zrym641e5btjf/wish/2526831220