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Dorian Gray, Language and Style
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A Levels Dorian and Dickinson Mind Map on Dorian Gray, Language and Style, created by laurissafield on 04/23/2014.
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Dorian Gray, Language and Style
Intertextual
Quotes other texts
Henry and Basil quote the King James Bible when they speak of the soul
Sibyl feels the words of Juliet do not express her feelings, and so quotes Lady of Shalott
"I have grown sick of shadows"
Synaesthesia
Use of one sense to interpret another
Light is "shrill"
Lord Henry can make Philosophy a woman with bubbles of wine staining her skin
Prepares us for the confused/shifting perspectives of Dorian as his life begins to fall apart
Moving narrative away from characters to focus on detail
Dorian listening to Henry
Text shifts focus to "a furry bee...began to scramble all over the oval stellated globe of the tiny blossoms"
Images become increasingly threatening
As though Dorian's consciousness can no longer shut out what is happening to him
Flash of a policeman's lantern after the murder
Twitching of elderly addict imagining he is covered in red ants
Omniscient narration
Appears to tell us every aspect of his character's thoughts
Uses free indirect speech
Narrated in third person, consistent with the thinker
Gives extra distance inviting observing and judging - we hear what they wouldn't voice aloud
Wit
Spoken word by characters - provides contrast in pace and tone to slower prose of thoughts
Aristocratic world had rules - sincerity was not as important as playing your social part well
Cliches
Asserts the social/political authority of speaker rather than advance an argument
Using wit to inverse the cliche
Asserts control over the code of the social circle
"Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast"
Generated laughter, creates a pause for reader to think
Subtext
Flirtation is the cover for the Duchess's real desire for Dorian
Used to conceal sexual longing - important in the society where marriage is for the preservation of the class
Public and visibly harmless
Social Comedy
Placed mainly towards the end of the novel
Link the lively aristocrats to our sense that a tragic end cannot be long deferred
Time is running out - widening suffrage, emancipation of women & rise of US as a world power will chance their lives
Use of Music
Wilde is creating his own hypnotic rhythm that stops at Dorian's death
At every significant moment, Dorian is linked to music
Innocent Dorian is linked to the sweetness of Schumann
Enticed away from grieving for Sibyl by the voice of a popular soprano
Plays a Chopin nocturne, which is a farewell to Lord Henry
Wilde's readers would know these well enough to 'hear' them
Dorian - both the player and listener, hypnotised by music, and using it to hypnotise the reader into following his life
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