OSCAR WILDE’S GOTHIC: THE PRESENCE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY A Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts with a Major in English in the College of Graduate Studies University of Idaho by Peter Stegner August 2007 Major Professor: Gary Williams‚ Ph.D. ii AUTHORIZATION TO SUBMIT THESIS This thesis of Peter Stegner‚ submitted for the degree of Master of Arts with a major in English and titled “Oscar
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and International Studies‚ VNU‚ Hanoi English Literature Home Assignment The NATURE of LOVE between DORIAN GRAY and SYBIL VANE Nguyen Thu Trang trangthu.nguyen92@gmail.com This essay argues that Oscar Wilde’s novel. The picture of Dorian Gray is a charming novel which has many conflicts. There is an external conflict between Dorian Gray and Sybil Vane. He falls in love with Sybil‚ an actress performing Shakespeare in the theatre as his speech “Why should
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book is ’’The picture of Dorian Gray’’ wrote by Oscar Wilde. The meeting whis this book has changed my point of view on such aspects of life like youth‚ friendship‚ love‚ beauty‚ eternal life and death. I found a new reality which was completely different from my personal world. "I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them‚ to enjoy them‚ and to dominate them." — Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray) The Picture of Dorian Gray was Oscar Wilde’s only novel‚ but
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THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY The book treats the history of Dorian Gray‚ a charming and beautiful boy who lived in London and who belonged to a noble family. When he met Basil Hallward‚ a painter‚ Dorian became the inspiration of this artist to make an authentic work of art: A picture based on the own Dorian Gray. This picture was considered the best of the works of Basil Hallward has ever done‚ to such a point that Dorian liked very much and‚ under the influence of a friend of Basil‚ Lord
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What role does art play in The Picture of Dorian Gray? What are each of the three main characters’ attitudes towards art? How do they think art functions in society? The role of art in The Picture of Dorian Gray is that of romance. It brings a romantic sensation into an otherwise dark tale about a young man‚ Dorian Gray. His portrait was painted so perfectly‚ it mesmerized him into a love hate relationship not only with himself‚ but with the artist‚ Basil Hallward and with his closest friend‚ Lord
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told by Ovid in The Metamorphoses. Narcissus fell in love with his reflection in a pool of water and eventually this lead to his demise‚ along with his patrons. Similarly The Picture of Dorian Gray‚ by Oscar Wilde is a story about physical beauty and the power that it can have with its protagonist‚ Dorian Gray being a narcissistic. The novel is an adaptation of the myth of Narcissus as they have similar plots‚ both including extreme accounts of vanity‚ love‚ death‚
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1 Homoerotic codes in The Picture of Dorian Gray Luljeta Muriqi A60 Literary Seminar Spring 2007 Department of English Lund University Supervisor: C. Wadsjö Lecaros 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION................................................................1 AESTHETICISM .................................................................2 HELLENISM .......................................................................4 Art .................................................................
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“The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde has been an extremely controversial novel since it was first published in 1890. The writing had been labeled as “indecent” and “immoral” because some passages hinted at homosexuality which‚ in those days‚ was wrong. Not only that‚ but supposedly what he wrote derided the morality of Victorian Britain. Wilde defended himself and his artistic rights by writing a statement included in later publishings of the novel. In the preface‚ Wilde states the importance
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Born in 1945‚ Robert Gray is an Australian poet renowned for his imagistic style‚ drawing strength from his fastidious concern for the precision of language and a meticulous contemplation of physical existence. Gray’s works are unconventional in structure‚ and prevalent throughout his poems are the recurring themes of humanism‚ consumerism and naturalism‚ peppered with allusions to personal experiences. Gray’s thematic concerns arise from his personal context‚ alongside his love of the Australian
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that one speaker purposely remembers the past‚ as opposed to the other persona that only thinks of the past because they are looking with fear into the future‚ both poems still illustrate that discoveries can be made through retrospect. In Diptych‚ Gray (the speaker) is reminiscing about his childhood and his parents‚ and by doing this he begins to have a better understanding of them. Whereas‚ in Late Ferry the speaker is watching the demise of warmth associated with earlier times‚ by looking at a
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