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Mind Map by mariya.razeen, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by mariya.razeen
about 10 years ago
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Dorian Gray characters
- Sibyl Vane
- A poor, beautiful, talented
actress - Dorian falls in love.
Sibyl’s love for Dorian
compromises her ability to act,
as her experience of true love in
life makes her realize the
falseness of affecting emotions
onstage.
- "Love is more than
money" - doesn't care
about possessions -
good morals
- "shy and so gentle" -
fragile like a flower -
similar to Dorian in the
beginning
- "flowerlike face"
- pure and
innocent
- "a pretty face"
- A poor, beautiful, talented
actress - Dorian falls in love.
Sibyl’s love for Dorian
compromises her ability to act,
as her experience of true love in
life makes her realize the
falseness of affecting emotions
onstage.
- James Vane
- A sailor - dislikes the fact that his mum is trying to
marry Sibyl to DG - doesn't want Sibyl to act
- Always seeking for the
truth about his father
- Instinctive loathing for Dorian
- He has strong morals
and feels he has to
wrong to the person
that has wronged him
- A sailor - dislikes the fact that his mum is trying to
marry Sibyl to DG - doesn't want Sibyl to act
- Mrs Vane
- She encourages the
marriage of DG and sibyl
because of his wealth -
this clouds her judgement -
leaves Sibyl vulnerable
- Faded actress
- "a faded,
tired-looking
woman"
- melodramatic - inability to shed the theatrics
- She encourages the
marriage of DG and sibyl
because of his wealth -
this clouds her judgement -
leaves Sibyl vulnerable
- Victoria Wotton
- LH's wife - marriage is a process of
continual deception
- LH neglects her however she understands him
better than he thinks
- she finds interests in other men
- LH's wife - marriage is a process of
continual deception
- Lady Narborough
- Not beautiful - life is spent making the best of a dull
marriage
- faithful
- highly educated and her intelligence allows her to play her sociall role well
- Flirts elegantly - only a game
- Not beautiful - life is spent making the best of a dull
marriage
- The Duchess of Monmouth
- enthralled by DG and profoundly bored by her husband
- "very clever" - politically aware
- she pursues Dorian - too predatory for her own good
- enthralled by DG and profoundly bored by her husband
- Alan Campbell
- Male equivalent of Sibyl vane - talented - destroyed in the end
- Musical interests - homosexual relationship?
- DG uses him - science knowledge -
blackmails him to clear up Basil's body
- "Campbell felt dominated by him" - strong feeling
- same effect on everyone
- Male equivalent of Sibyl vane - talented - destroyed in the end
- Adrian Singleton
- Represents a whole group
of young men who are
disgraced when they fall
under DG's influence.
- Opium becomes a substitute for the
world he has lost
- This is the person DG would have been if his
youth and beauty had not been protected
- Represents a whole group
of young men who are
disgraced when they fall
under DG's influence.
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