The picture of Dorian Gray The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890. We meet our three central characters at the beginning of the book, when painter Basil Hallward and his close friend, Lord Henry Wotton, are discussing the subject of Basil's newest painting, about handsome young man named Dorian Gray. Henry told Basil that it's his best work yet and should it sent to the best art gallery in London. Basil refuses to send, because he has pu too much of himself into it. Lord Henry wants to meet this mysterious boy, but Basil doesn't want him to because he's afraid that Henry will change and influence Dorian by his clever words. However, Lord Henry gets his wish--Dorian shows up that very afternoon. The both men thinks that Dorian is very good-looking man with his bright blue eyes and gold hair
Oscar Wilde was born on 16th October 1854 in Dublin, Ireland. His parents were well known and attracted a degree of gossip for their extravagant lifestyles. Oscar Wilde proved to be a student of great talent. He was awarded a scholarship to Trinity College Dublin. Here he studied the classics, in particular developing an interest in the Greek philosophers and the Hellenistic view of life. He also really cherished his youth, which probably was the inspiration for the book The picture of Dorian Gray. "To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early or be respectable." - Oscar Wilde The picture of Dorian Gray This book talks about a young man called Dorian Gray, who doesn't age. Instead a portrait, which is painted of him shows all the changes Dorian is going trough. That is somehow making Dorian evil, he starts enjoying life at first, but later on his actions take a darker turn
I read a book called ,,The Picture of Dorian Gray" by famous writer Oscar Wilde, this book was his only novel. In the London home of his aunt, Lady Brandon, the famous painter Basil Hallward encounters Dorian Gray. Dorian is a smart, wealthy, and impossibly gorgeous young man who immediately captures Basil's eye. Basil paints Dorian several times. When the book starts the artist is finishing his first portrait of Dorian as he truly sees him, but, as he admits to his companion Lord Henry Wotton, the painting frustrates him because it reveals too much of his feeling for his subject. Lord Henry, who enjoys scandalizing his friends by celebrating beauty, youth, and the selfish quest of satisfaction, disagrees, claiming that the portrait is perfect. Dorian arrives at the studio, and Basil hesitantly introduces him to Lord Henry, who he scares will have a harmful influence on the vulnerable, young Dorian. Lord Henry makes a speech to Dorian, explaining that the only thing
Maris Süld The Price of Everlasting Youth Everything in this life has a price, especially things you could not normally get like the everlasting youth. In the book "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde, a young man called Dorian gets it, but it does not come free. To start with, the book is full of evil. It talks about the evil, that lies inside humans, and when it comes out, there is nothing we can do. Dorian Gray had the same problem. At the beginning of the book he was a very wealthy, intelligent man with a very high status. His beauty charmed others. Basil Hallward was inspired to draw his portrait in order to preserve his beauty and youth. With Lord Henry practically "brain-washing" Dorian, he recognised
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Introduction The Picture of Dorian Gray came out in 1891, in Estonian 1929. It is the only published novel written by Oscar Wilde and also considered as a classic gothic horror fiction with a little bit of philosophy in it. I decided to read this book in Estonian, because I have two books in this language available at home. The book I read was published by Eesti Päevaleht in 2007 and it consists of 184 pages. The story is centred on Dorian Gray, a young man of great beauty and on his portrait, painted by Basil Hallward
Mari Tiirik, i-2 Oscar Wilde "The Picture of Dorian Gray" Basil Hallward is a taciturn and solitary artist, who finds his perfect motif in a young boy called Dorian Gray, who is the model for his oil painted masterpiece. Due to the fact that Dorian is very handsome, actually even heavenly beautiful young man, a friend of Basil, a cynical aristocrat Lord Henry Wotton (Harry) finds great intrest in Dorian. Lord Henry Wotton wants to buy the picture, and moreover, he wants to meet the boy in the picture himself. Unfortunately, Dorian is an innocent and a pure child, this is why Hallward doesn't find the idea of these two men meeting, because he is afraid that Dorian won't find his relationship with Basil intesting and exciting anymore. Basil fell in love with Dorian while painting his picture. Basil also treated him good, kept his self- esteem and spirit up by saying all the great things about him, of how good he looks and how much
The Price of Everlasting Youth Everlasting youth is something that people value most when they are already older. But Dorian captured the ideal moment which he wanted to be eternal. His decision was influenced by Harry's ideas and the portrait of him where he saw how beautiful he was. Dorian wished that he could remain young forever and his portrait would get older. Harry was a friend of Basil's, the artist who painted Dorian's picture, and he had quite peculiar ideas of life. He told Dorian that youth is the most relevant in life and that everyone should enjoy it. Basil knew that Harry wouldn't be good influence for young boy, but he wasn't able to prevent their encounter. Over time Harry's ideas fix in Dorian's mind and he changes into someone that he was not like before. When his first love, Sibyl Vane, who was an actress in a cheap theatre, disappoints him, he is very callous towards her
Mari-Liis Luukas Dorian Gray the Prince of Everlasting Youth The novel which describes the life story of Dorian Gray is out of the ordinary. It might have been a long time ago when it was written, but I haven't heard of a similar idea such as the starting point of the events. In the beginning Dorian was a young undamaged simple boy and I think that Basil was right to have the wish to prevent Dorian meeting Harry. When Dorian hears the ideas that Harry has for life of pleasure, beauty and youth, he adopts them immediately. As he sees his portrait, Dorian becomes aware of his beauty and says the fateful wish that if only he could remain young and the portrait would become old. The first sign that his wish had become true is seen when Dorian is very heartless and rude to Sibyl Vane, an actress to whom he wanted to marry
The Price of Everlasting Beauty I read Oscar Wilde's book called "The Picture of Dorian Gray". It talks about a man who never ages, instead a portrait of him ages. Dorian can be forever beautiful but is it worth it? Dorian realizes that he cannot be young forever and wishes that the portrait would age not him but he does not think about the consequence. Lord Henry points out that Dorian cannot be beautiful and young forever and Dorian wishes that the painting would age not him. I think this it not worth it because everyone around Dorian will grow old and eventually die. He would see the people he cares about dying. Also, when Dorian understand that he can be beautiful forever, he does not care so much about what is going to happen or even what is going to happen with people around him. He was a caring young man who loved very much Sibyl, especially when she was acting
Movie was well done. None too big cuts. All good quotations were present but it felt to me that in some places they were a bit too forced (crammed together). Alltogether I liked the movie and it gave away the meaning of the book pretty well. The storyteller explaines in the beginning that Harry likes to play with people. Not good. The novel has no reference to Dorian being painted with an Egyptian goddess shaped like a cat who could grant his wish, as the film has. Appears throughout the whole movie. Girls signs the painting- Glaidis, Basils niece. Dorian stole her heart. Also important in later recognising the corpse. In Wilde's original, Sybil Vane is a Shakespearean actress whom Dorian observes playing Juliet, rather than the gifted dance-hall singer seen in this film. This necessitates altering Dorian's motive for breaking up with her
Dorian Gray Dorian Gray is the kind of person you could look up to from far far away but whom you would never want to be. To others he seems pretty, almost ideal but in the real world there is no such thing as an ideal person. His good looks does him no good in more than just one way. It makes him vain and obsessed with his appearance. Also looking good is something everyone wants to achieve. And people who envy you often gossip and start nasty rumors about you. A person like Dorian Gray worries about his fading beauty and would do almost anything to keep it. For example he would wish a pretty portrait of himself age instead of him. It is easier to hide away a ugly-looking painting, that depicts the eeriness of your soul, than yourself. All that matters is the present day and the face that you see from the mirror. Right? As it turns out, even for Dorian, the saying out of mind- out of sight doesn't really work. You can only
Review The picture of Dorian Gray O. Wilde Kodumäe, Janne Form 11B This book tells the story of a beautiful young boy, called Dorian Gray, whose friend is an artist who paints a picture of him. Thanks to the artist, called Basil Hallward, Dorian meets with Lord Henry. Lord Henry tells him, that appearance and amusements are important in life and you shouldn't take anything seriously. Doria made a wish that he could be young forever like the picture of him. Dorian discovers that he's staying young and the picture of him is getting older. Thanks to aging picture and influence of Lord Herny, he's going to live vicious life. Lord Henry just wants to play with peolple and is interested in psychology, but in my point of view he isn't
excursions. The two have started to quarrel about this and when Vronsky leaves for several days of provincial elections, a combination of boredom and suspicion convinces Anna she must marry him in order to prevent him from leaving her. She writes to Karenin, and she and Vronsky leave the countryside for Moscow. Part 7 The Levins are in Moscow for Kitty's confinement. Despite initial reservations, Levin quickly gets used to the fast-paced, expensive and frivolous Moscow society life. He starts to accompany Stiva to his Moscow gentlemans' club, where drinking and gambling are popular pastimes. At the club, Levin meets Vronsky and Stiva introduces them. Levin and Stiva pay a visit to Anna, who is occupying her empty days by being a patroness to an orphaned English girl. Levin is uneasy about the visit and not sure it is the proper thing to do. However Anna easily makes Levin fall in love with her
,,1919" study of American society during the WWI. It's tone is sharper, represents the obscenety of war. We get a glimpse of war thorugh camera eye. John Reed-famous american journalist who travels to Moscow, he is fascinated by the revolution, writes a famous book about it. Only american who is buried in the Kreml, the communist's loved him. Novel describes the horrors of war, lice, starvation, bed bugs, machine fire and two horrible deseases-typhus and cholera. Ambulance corps, gets a high position in there, makes a huge profit out of war while other people suffer. ,,Big Money" shows the development of American society after the war. The tone here is much more optimistic. The war is over but people are not happy, the central figure is Charlie Anderson, who comes back from war as an aviation ace. Very good pilot, has killed many enemies. He starts aviation company and suddenly becomes rich but doesn't know what to do with his money
He never returned to Ireland or Britain. In 1883, Irish-born Oscar Wilde returned to London bursting with exuberance from a year long lecture tour of the United States and Canada. Full of talent, passion and, most of all, full of himself, he courted and married the beautiful Constance Lloyd. A few years later, Wilde's wit, flamboyance and creative genius were widely renowned. His literary career had achieved notoriety with the publication of "The Picture Of Dorian Gray". Oscar and Constance now had two sons whom they both loved very much. But one evening, Robert Ross, a young Canadian houseguest, seduced Oscar and forced him finally to confront the homosexual feelings that had gripped him since his schooldays. Oscar's work thrived on the realisation that he was gay, but his private life flew increasingly in the face of the decidedly anti-homosexual conventions of late Victorian society
story seems to be happened and it is even claimed that vampires were also real, but this likely still did not happen and Stoker used a lot folklore which makes the story even more interesting. And because of his simple writing that does not contain long a difficult senteneces and the ability to describe actions and people very accurate and interesting, it is very exciting to see what is going to happen next. Although the tale is very intriguing and well-written, it gets in some point a little tedious. For example, the entries are mostly written following the dates. One character writes two days and the next goes on with another two days. It is easy to follow and nothing goes missing, but there is a setting when four people are describing their day in their point of view, but this is pretty much the same as described by the first person. It will give the better picture of the
to resolve itself in a clever and satisfying finale. The layers pile up thickly in the longer works, with a character getting into multiple dangerous situations by mid- story. An outstanding example of this is Code of the Woosters where most of the chapters have an essential plot point reversed in the last sentence, catapulting the characters forward into greater diplomatic disasters. Stories 6 short stories: each takes place in Blandings Castle and Lord Emsworth is the protagonist in most of those. He's an old man who lives by the old nobility manners. He has his own view on everything. Also, he is a bit absentminded and that irritates mostly everyone he speaks to. His son, Freddie, also appears a lot in the text. Freddie is a go-getter and is not afraid of almost anything barring old Lord Emsworth himself. Lord Emsworth tries to get him to leave Blandings Castle whenever possible. Another
than many of the other soldiers to detach himself completely from his feelings, and there are several moments in the book (Kemmerich's death, Kat's death, the time that he spends with his ill mother) when he feels himself pulled down by emotion. These surging feelings indicate the extent to which war has programmed Paul to cut himself off from feeling, as when he says, with devastating understatement, "Parting from my friend Albert Kropp was very hard. But a man gets used to that sort of thing in the army." Paul's experience is intended to represent the experience of a whole generation of men, the so-called lost generation--men who went straight from childhood to fighting in World War I, often as adolescents. Paul frequently considers the past and the future from the perspective of his entire generation, noting that, when the war ends, he and his friends will not know what to do, as they have learned to be adults only while fighting the war
Chapter 12: Mr. Brownlow took Oliver to his house, where he was unconscious for days. Oliver awakes from his illness to find a sweet old woman, Mrs. Bedwin, taking care of him. She nurses him back to health and Mr. Brownlow comes to visit him to inquire after his health. Oliver begins to get his strength back and is very grateful to both Brownlow and Bedwin for taking care of him. Once he is healthy enough to sit in a chair, he sees a portrait of a woman. The picture fascinates him, and Mrs. Bedwin believes that he is upset by it and tries to take it away. Mr. Brownlow comes to see him and notices that the woman in the picture looks exactly like him. He points this out to Mrs. Bedwin, but decides not to tell Oliver of it yet. Oliver, at their looks of exclamation, faints again. After he had been kidnapped, the Dodger and Charlie Bates went back to the Jew's house, and because Oliver knew their
published in 1942. There is a murder in St Mary Mead and it's a hard one to solve but Miss Marple has the ability to overcome any problem and this time is no exception. The main character in the book was Miss Marple, the old amateur detective. She had been solving many crimes over the years in her home village and near it. So she is hired to help the policemen again. She is an old lady probably in her early 70's. At first she seems like a usual older lady, she likes gossip talk and knitting. But in reality she is a real genius at solving crimes. She is calm and does not like to make premature conclusions and to tell everybody about them. Her style for solving crimes was unusual-she made parallels with the people from her village and what they would do at the same situation (as a murderer or suspect) and she was excellent at knowing people. Ruby Keene was the murdered girl. She was young and dim-witted. She
changes from one of careless manipulation to fierce determination to make him marry her. Jake first becomes aware of Frances's attitude while he dines one night with her and Cohn. Cohn suggests that he and Jake take a weekend trip. Jake suggests that they go to Strasbourg, in northeastern France, because he knows a girl there who can show them around. Cohn kicks him under the table several times before Jake gets the hint and notices Frances's look of displeasure. After dinner, Cohn follows Jake to ask why he mentioned the girl and explains that Frances will not permit him to take any trip that involves seeing a girl. Summary: Chapter II Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters. (See Important Quotations Explained) That winter, Cohn travels to New York to find a publisher for his novel. There he gains new confidence. The
Will doesn´t need to work and spends most of his free time watching television, and reading about pop culture. When Will's friends, Christine and John ask him to be the godfather of their second child, Will bluntly refuses, he didn´t want to be responsible for the child, if something would happen with her parents. In an attempt to avoid spending time with the couple, Will meets Angie, and starts dating with her. But soon they break up and Will understands, that he have to look for girlfriend in some single-parents group. He comes up with idea of attending a group called "SPAT" to meet potential female partners. As part of his play, he claims to have two-year-old son named Ned. His plan succeeds and he meets Suzie. One day, Suzie takes Will in the park for a picnic, where he meets Marcus. Marcus is an 12 years old boy, who has bad haircut and who wears starnge clothes. Even his music style is different from others. At
There had been even rumours about him and the boys that they beat an Indian guy to death. Not only did she have to struggle with the problems with racism, but also with the idea of having a baby brother. This all was too much for her. Fortunatelly, Meena's grandmother came to pay a little visit to them from India. She and Meena develop At the end of the novel Anita's little sister Tracey runs to Meena's place to get help. Namely, she believed that Sam is killing her older sister. They found them in the garden of Big House, where the witch suppose to live. When Tracey tries to attack Sam to defend Anita, the boy throws the girl into the pound. She would have been nearly drowned, if she hadn't been saved by a mysterious man. It turns out that the man is from India and also the owner of land, where the closed mine is. Meena's family decide to move out of Tollington. Characterize and analyze the main characters (what motivates them, are they round or flat
Cassio's ship did not suffer the same fate, he arrives soon after, followed by another ship carrying Iago, Rodrigo, Desdemona and Emilia. When they wait for Othello, Cassio greets Desdemona by clasping her hand. Watching them, Iago is drawing up a plan. Soon Othello arrives. Later, Rodrigo says Iago that he has no chance winning Desdemona's heart, but Iago assures him that very soon Desdemona will lose interest in Othello. That night, Iago gets Cassio drunk and sends Rodrigo to start a fight with him. Cassio chases Rodrigo and governor Montano attempts to hold him down, but Cassio stabs him. Rodrigo goes to raise alarm in the town. Othello arrives to still the commotion. Othello strips Cassio of his rank of lieutenant and he is extremely upset thinking, that his reputation has been ruined forever. In an attempt at reconciliation, Cassio sends some musicians to play beneath
not to blame. But one thing has to be known about the French; it is that when one is not harsh with them, they will play their cards the way that the innocent one will be blamed. This happens to Paul too. Finally they still manage to reach to their destination. It comes out that Florence's mother is not a satisfied and a happy woman, but a bit bizarre. In Paul's eyes, she is a sex maniac, who is persistent to seduce her daughter's boyfriend. Soon Paul gets fed up and wishes to leave. Their next destination is Florence's father's country house, which is on Ré, a thirty-kilometre ribbon of an island off France's west coast. There they sunbathe, swim, enjoy the nature. Paul also explores the local way of living and ends up in a bar with Florence's father, who gets himself and Paul drunk. During the time on Ré and also in Correzè, Paul keeps in touch with his previous girlfriend Alexa. They call each other and exchange e-mails
He said that he had to win all the upcoming matches as well, not to get beaten up later himself. Graff said he was accepted and gave Ender the choice, to stay home or go to the Battle School. He chose to leave his beloved sister and go. Most of the book is set in Battle School. Graff makes every other launchie hate him since the start. Graff has decided that he has to isolate Ender, so that he would keep improving to become a genius that was needed. Soon Ender is put into an army, older boys were divided into armies for playing the game in zero gravity, which was the most important thing in the school. He was not wanted by his commander, because he had now experience, was very small and he had to give a good soldier in return. Soon he was traded to a new army, where he was used properly in battle. Always as soon Ender was getting used to the situation and started feeling happy, things were made more difficult. Time passed and Ender was the most respect soldier in the school
Zidler solves the problem and calms the Duke down by telling him that Satine is confessing. Satine tries to tell Christian that their reletionship is over but the man convinces her that they should be together by writing a secret song which he puts in the show. They are singing the song and the Duke is listening while one of the jelous actress is pointing out that the song and the whole play is really about Satine, Christian and the Duke. Duke gets mad and tells Zidler to change the ending, so the courtisan will choose maharajah. Satine insists that she spends the night with the Duke to discuss that decition. Her real plan is to sleep with the Duke so the play's ending would stay the same. That night the Duke offers Satine everything she has ever dreamed of but when she looks out of the window she sees Christian and she cannot go through with her plan to sleep with the Duke. The Duke tries to rape Satine but another actor saves her.
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· Jane Although she never appears in the story and doesn't have any lines, she is very important to Holden. She went to the same school with him and the main character has had a crush on him for a long time. · Phoebe Holden's 10-year-old sister who is the most important person to him. Phoebe is intelligent and, despite her age, mature. She understands Holden better than anyone else. · D. B. Holden's older brother who is a writer and now works in Hollywood by writing movie scripts. Holden doesn't like it, saying that they don't leave anything for the writer's imagination in Hollywood. · Allie Holden's deceased younger brother, who died of leukemia years before Holden tells the story. Holden feels depressed and even guilty of his brother's death. He carries Allie's baseball glove around with him. 3. Main problem/conflict
Lady Astair. The apparently open-and-shut suicide case falls to inexperienced 20-year-old detective Erast Fandorin. He interviews Elizaveta, and immediately falls in love with her. Further investigation reveals that Kokorin was playing Russian roulette (called "American roulette" in the novel) with another university student, Akhtyrtsev. Fandorin tails Akhtyrtsev, who leads him to a sensuous dark-haired woman, Amalia Bezhetskaya, whom Fandorin recognizes from a picture in Kokorin's room. He follows Bezhetskaya to her home, where she spends her time toying with the many men who come to visit. At Bezhetskaya's home, Fandorin meets Count Zurov, an Army officer that Amalia seems fond of, and sees Akhtyrtsev again. Akhtyrtsev and Fandorin leave Amalia's house together to go drinking, and Akhtyrtsev reveals to Fandorin that the Russian roulette game between him and Kokorin was Bezhetskaya's idea. Just as the mystery of Kokorin's
authority; as it turned out, the American Revolution provided a blueprint for the organization of a democratic society. And while imperfectly done, for it did not address the terrible problem of slavery, the American Revolution was an enlightened concept of government whose most profound documents may have been the American Declaration of Independence and United States Constitution. To feel the full impact of the Enlightenment on America one needs only to look at the first inaugural address of Thomas Jefferson, who, along with Benjamin Franklin, is considered to be the American most touched by the ideas of the Enlightenment. Attempts to reconcile science and religion resulted in a widespread rejection of prophecy, miracle and revealed religion in preference for Deism especially by Thomas Paine in "The Age of Reason" and by Thomas Jefferson in his short Jefferson Bible from which all supernatural aspects were removed
almost obsessive to him that Indians get treated properly; wrote a book to the government objecting to their policy. TRISTAN LUDLOW - Adventurer and smuggler who loves his freedom so much that he lives like an indian, his long hairs and horse riding symbolize his independence, too self-confident, takes risks, when Sammuel is killed he tries to escape his feelings of guilt by sailing the sea's ALFRED LUDLOW - Macho; power hungry, the indian says he was older and looked even more older than the other ones, humiliates his other brothers in public(bully). Main Characters SAMUEL LUDLOW - He's the kamikaze son; self sacrificially loyal, naive need to prove his courage, easily confused by abstract things, he lacks of self worth which he tries to mask with hothead impulsive actions, I bet many soccer hooligans have this personality . SUSANNAH - Dreamy, emphatic, modest, fragile, understanding of Tristan's
The bill needs the Queen's signature to pass. The House of Commons writes the bills. 6. What do you know about the Wars of the Roses? It was a war between two families, one had a red rose as their symbol and the other had a white rose as their symbol. The war was about who should be on the throne, the red rose won and thereafter the red rose has been the symbol of England. 7. How was Protestantism established in England? When and by who? It was established by Henry VIII because he wanted to divorce his first wife. Up until then England was Catholic and divorcing was not allowed for him. He really wanted a new wife, so he declared that England was no longer a part of the Catholic Church and made himself as the head of the new church. It happened in 15 8. What good did the invasion of Romans bring to England? It brought roads and order. They also built the first version of London. 9. What do you know about the Tower of London?
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