Basil Hallward and Lord Henry

Lord Henry Wotton
1. Aristocrat - little personal experience outside his role
2. Feels the less priveleged are a waste of time and disposable
3. Corrupter - enticed DG away from charitable work
4. See DG as a scientific experiment
  1. "exquisite pleasure in playing with the lad's unconscious egtism"
5. charming talker, famous wit and brilliant intellect
  1. "under a spell" - wit and charm hypnotises you
6. Although Lord Henry is a self-proclaimed hedonist who advocates the equal pursuit of both moral and immoral experience, he lives a rather staid life.
7. Devil on the left shoulder - the snake in the garden of eden
  1. "LH was leaning over his chair" - overshadowing - sinister
8. Hypocrite - preaches a lifestyle but does not follow it himself
  1. "Only way to get rid of temptation is to yield it" - corrupting thoughts
9. Values beauty over anything else
  1. "I chose my friends for their good looks
Basil Hallward
1. DG "If I were in trouble...I would sooner go to you" - trustworthy - angel on the right shoulder
2. His love for Dorian changes the way he sees his art and makes it better
3. He idolises Dorian - homoerotic undertones
  1. "He is absolutely necessary to me" - dependent - hyperbolic
  2. "Absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself"
4. Extremely protective over Dorian and begins to become jealous of DG and LH - more worried of LH influence on DG.
5. Trys to get Dorian to repent but his love for Dorian becomes his downfall
6. He represents good morals - he has a good sense of what is right and wrong
7. He does not advertise his status - main focus is his art
8. He prolongs telling Dorian his feelings due to fear of rejection or conviction that homosexual desire is forbidden
  1. "I worship you too much. I am punished for it" - partly to blame for DG corruption - foreshadows his impending doom
9. He crushes his own jealousy, class prejudice and his own hopes to see DG happy with Sibyl - Selfless
  1. "Life has come between them...his eyes darkened" - ellipses reflects void - marriage got in between them
10. "The painter" - nobody - nameless - detached
11. "I was dominate soul, brain and power" - rule of three - great emphasis

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