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Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Classic Characters in English and American Literature
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1890)

R.Baena
15.XI.2013
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Life and work of Oscar Wilde
1. Genre. Reading pact
2. Plot and structure
3. Characters
4. Symbols and Themes
5. Ethics and Aesthetics
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Life
Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (Dublin 1854, Paris 1900)
Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford
Aestheticism: English poet and critic, English essayist Walter Pater.
Frank Miles, painter, and aesthete Lord Ronald Gower
1882, Lecture tour in America
1884, Marriage to Constance Lloyd
1895-1897, imprisonment with hard labour
1897-1900, Paris
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Work
1881, first book of Poems
1888, The Happy Prince and Other Tales
1889, The Decay of Lying
1890, The Picture of Dorian Gray
1892, Lady Windermere’s Fan
1893, A Woman of No Importance
1895, An Ideal Husband
1895, The Importance of Being Earnest
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
1. Genre
Novel
Gothic
Realism
Tragedy
R.L. Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, 1886
Myth of Narcissus
Myth of Faust
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
2. Plot and structure
Dramatic elements. Settings. Dialogues. Disquisitions.
1st part: 10 chapters (Lord Henry’s influence?
2nd part: 10 chapters (18 years later, his life as an adult)
Turning point:
“If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to
grow old! For that –for that—I would give everything! Yes, there is
nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for
that!” (49, chapter II).
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
3. Characters
Dorian Gray. Extremely handsome, impressionable, and wealthy
young gentleman. Sells his soul to the devil. Obssesed with beauty
and youth.
Lord Henry Wotton. Flat character. Corruption. New Hedonism.
“You never say a moral thing and you never do a wrong thing. Your cynicism
is simply a pose” (Basil on Lord Henry 26).

Basil Hallward. Round character. Friendship. Artist. Fatalism. Moral
concerns.
“Basil Hallwards is what I think I am: Lord Henry is what the world thinks of
me; Dorian is what I would like to be!” (Oscar Wilde)
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Def. literary terms:
Character: a verbal representation of a human being. Through
action, speech, description, and commentary authors portray
characters. Flat character undergo no change, they are like human
types. Round characters do change during the story.
Symbol: something (a thing, an idea or an object) that represents an
abstract idea.
Theme: central or dominating idea in a literary work, often an
abstract concept which is made concrete through character and
actions.
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
4. Symbols:
The portrait
The yellow book
The opium dens
Theatre

Themes:
The purpose of art
Astheticism. Double life.
Evil in human nature.
Ambition (other classic characters?)
Minor themes: friendship, life as drama…
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
5. Ethics and Aesthetics
“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid
and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle
magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic
form to formless things, and to have a music of their own… Was
there anything so real as words?” (The Picture of DG 42).
“The artist is the creator of beautiful things… No artist has ethical
sympathies… All art is quite useless”
(Preface to The Picture of DG)
“
“My work will ultimately be recognized as a real work of art with a
strong ethical lesson inherent in it” (Oscar Wilde).

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • 1. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras Classic Characters in English and American Literature The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1890) R.Baena 15.XI.2013
  • 2. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras Life and work of Oscar Wilde 1. Genre. Reading pact 2. Plot and structure 3. Characters 4. Symbols and Themes 5. Ethics and Aesthetics
  • 3. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras Life Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (Dublin 1854, Paris 1900) Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford Aestheticism: English poet and critic, English essayist Walter Pater. Frank Miles, painter, and aesthete Lord Ronald Gower 1882, Lecture tour in America 1884, Marriage to Constance Lloyd 1895-1897, imprisonment with hard labour 1897-1900, Paris
  • 4. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras Work 1881, first book of Poems 1888, The Happy Prince and Other Tales 1889, The Decay of Lying 1890, The Picture of Dorian Gray 1892, Lady Windermere’s Fan 1893, A Woman of No Importance 1895, An Ideal Husband 1895, The Importance of Being Earnest
  • 5. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras 1. Genre Novel Gothic Realism Tragedy R.L. Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, 1886 Myth of Narcissus Myth of Faust
  • 6. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras 2. Plot and structure Dramatic elements. Settings. Dialogues. Disquisitions. 1st part: 10 chapters (Lord Henry’s influence? 2nd part: 10 chapters (18 years later, his life as an adult) Turning point: “If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that –for that—I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!” (49, chapter II).
  • 7. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras 3. Characters Dorian Gray. Extremely handsome, impressionable, and wealthy young gentleman. Sells his soul to the devil. Obssesed with beauty and youth. Lord Henry Wotton. Flat character. Corruption. New Hedonism. “You never say a moral thing and you never do a wrong thing. Your cynicism is simply a pose” (Basil on Lord Henry 26). Basil Hallward. Round character. Friendship. Artist. Fatalism. Moral concerns. “Basil Hallwards is what I think I am: Lord Henry is what the world thinks of me; Dorian is what I would like to be!” (Oscar Wilde)
  • 8. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras Def. literary terms: Character: a verbal representation of a human being. Through action, speech, description, and commentary authors portray characters. Flat character undergo no change, they are like human types. Round characters do change during the story. Symbol: something (a thing, an idea or an object) that represents an abstract idea. Theme: central or dominating idea in a literary work, often an abstract concept which is made concrete through character and actions.
  • 9. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras 4. Symbols: The portrait The yellow book The opium dens Theatre Themes: The purpose of art Astheticism. Double life. Evil in human nature. Ambition (other classic characters?) Minor themes: friendship, life as drama…
  • 10. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras 5. Ethics and Aesthetics “Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own… Was there anything so real as words?” (The Picture of DG 42). “The artist is the creator of beautiful things… No artist has ethical sympathies… All art is quite useless” (Preface to The Picture of DG) “ “My work will ultimately be recognized as a real work of art with a strong ethical lesson inherent in it” (Oscar Wilde).