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Themes in The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Art and aesthetics
- A binary
to religion
in Dracula
- Art is an
expression of
everything and
the painting
illustrates that
point
- "The painted scenes were my
world. I knew nothing but
shadows and thought them real"
- Plato's analogy of the cave
- Plato's analogy of the cave
- "the whole thing
simply appeals to
our sense of
dramatic effect" 85
- "He is all my art
to me"
- A binary
to religion
in Dracula
- Youth and beauty
- It's superiority but its mortal fate
- "time is
jealous of
you, and
warns
against
your lilies
and your
roses" 23
- "It has its divine right of
sovereignty" 22
- "ugliness
is one of
the seven
deadly
virtues"
- It's superiority but its mortal fate
- Influence and manipulation
- Like Dracula, it's presented as a
bad thing and also how it changes
someone.
- Whilst
Dracula's
victims became
vampires, LH's
become LH
- Whilst
Dracula's
victims became
vampires, LH's
become LH
- "Because to influence a person is
to give them one's own soul"
- "it was a
poisonous
book" 104
- "Don't
spoil
him"
16
- Like Dracula, it's presented as a
bad thing and also how it changes
someone.
- Good vs Evil
- Superego=Basil/Id=LH
- Also an internal battle in DG - psycomachia
- "Each of us have heaven
and hell in him"
- "Let it
be for
good,
not for
evil
- Superego=Basil/Id=LH
- Morality and sin
- "To cure the soul by
means of the senses"
- Questions the reality
of morals and the
ugliness of sin though
the painting
- "sin is a thing that
writes itself across a
man's face"
- "the terror of
society, which is
the basis of
morals" 19
- "To cure the soul by
means of the senses"
- Romanticism vs reality
- "His beauty had
been to him but a
mask, his youth
but a mockery"
- the "dislike of Realism is
the rage of Caliban
seeing his own face in a
glass...the dislike of
Romanticism is the rage
of Caliban not seeing his
own face in a glass"
- "I want to make
Romeo jealous"
- "His beauty had
been to him but a
mask, his youth
but a mockery"
- Women and men
- Behaviour highlights the
paradox of men's behavior
- "Her [Gladys] clever
tongue gets on one's
nerves"
- "Her [Gladys] clever
tongue gets on one's
nerves"
- "She is very
clever, too clever
for a woman."
151
- "decorative sex"
- "the husbands of very beautiful
women belong to the criminal
classes" 148
- Behaviour highlights the
paradox of men's behavior
- Redemption
- "The prayer of your pride has been
answered. The prayer of your
repentance will be answered also" 132
- "Down on your knees!" 158
- execution or prayer?
- execution or prayer?
- "The prayer of your pride has been
answered. The prayer of your
repentance will be answered also" 132
- The Double
- The painting and Dorian are the double -
at first positive and enlightening but then
powerful and evil
- "the most magical of mirrors. As
it had revealed to him his own
body, so it would reveal to him
his own soul"
- hidden in
the
schoolroom
- hidden in
the
schoolroom
- "it had been suggested to him by
the image on the canvas" 132
- The painting and Dorian are the double -
at first positive and enlightening but then
powerful and evil
- The guilty conscience
- "It was the living death of his own soul
that troubled him" 182
- Compare
oxymoron to
Drac's
"un-dead"
- Compare
oxymoron to
Drac's
"un-dead"
- The journey to the
Opium Den
- "It was the living death of his own soul
that troubled him" 182
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