Taylor-Wilde+-The+Picture+of+Dorian+Gray

= =     **"What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods and sickly thoughts. Why had he worn its livery? Youth had spoiled him." (Wilde, 192)**

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=__The Picture of Dorian Gray __=


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=<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(255, 175, 0)"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(243, 157, 32)">Summary = <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(255, 175, 0)"> Basil Hallward is an amazing artist who paints for pleasure and not for money or to be known. When Lord Henry visits him he discovers the painting has has completed of Dorian Gray. Lord Henry suggests to Basil that he should send it to The Grosvenor where many people can gaze and see his wonderful masterpiece. basil doesn't feel the need to send it because he doesn't want others to see that he put to much of himself into the painting. After Lord Henry is unsuccessful at this he feels he must meet Dorian to see the thing that Basil paints. His first impression of Dorian is jealousy. Dorian has a complexion of youth and doesn't appear to have any signs of aging. Lord Henry feels that it is necessary for him to sit in on a session of Basil painting Dorian. Basil doesn't want him there because he will be a distraction to Dorian making it harder for Vail to capture the best picture possible. Basil fails at his attempt to get him to leave because Dorian insists that he stays. While Dorian and Lord Henry are talking, Lord Henry can not get over the fact of how good Dorian looks. He mentions to Dorian that in a few years that complexion will start to fade and he will begin to get wrinkles and age like and other person. When Basil finishes the painting Dorian looks at and remembers what Lord Henry had said to him. Dorian becomes angry because the picture will always look young and he will begin to look old in a few years. He makes a wish that the picture will become old and he will stay young.

A few years pass and Dorian still looks the same. He meets this girl named Sibyl Vane. She is an actress in the plays that Dorian attends nightly. Watching her act makes him instantaneously fall in love with her. When she realizes that she too is in love with him she begins to act horribly so that she no longer as to act and can spend time with Dorian. When Dorian sees this he falls out of lover and tells her that he no longer wants to see her of she is going to be a horrible actress. She takes this in the worst way possible. The next day Lord Henry comes to his home and tells him that Sibyl has died and no one knows why. Only Dorian knows the real reason and he is to ashamed to tell anyone.

Later, Dorian starts to realize that he is not aging. He remembers the wish he made about the picture aging instead of him and he foes to look at it. He sees that his face has an older appearance and he immediately covers it with a cloth. He keeps it covered for a few months and doesn't pay attention to the way its aging. Basil comes to Dorian's house to get the picture because he wants to bring it to Paris with him for six months, but Dorian can't give him the picture because its aged. Dorian shows him the picture and Basil can't believe what he sees. He becomes flustered and starts ti yell at Dorian. Dorian can't take it anymore and takes a knife and stabs Basil with it. Dorian gets rid of the body and all the possessions and makes it seem like he was never there.

For awhile Dorian has nothing to worry about then things form the past start to come up and people start to ask questions. There main question is hwy Dorian hasn't aged in about twenty years. He becomes self conscious of what everyone is saying about him. He locks himself in the room where the picture is and uncovers it. He takes and knife and stabs himself in the heart. When he does this all the old form the picture goes into his appearance making him look like an old man and the picture is now of a young Dorian Gray.

=<span style="color: rgb(248, 246, 27)"><span style="color: rgb(252, 246, 100)"><span style="color: rgb(248, 245, 68)"><span style="color: rgb(250, 244, 76)"><span style="color: rgb(253, 249, 99)"><span style="color: rgb(245, 251, 75)"><span style="color: rgb(247, 239, 34)"><span style="color: rgb(246, 248, 58)"><span style="color: rgb(247, 38, 203)"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(250, 255, 0)">Criticism         = <span style="color: rgb(250, 244, 76)"><span style="color: rgb(245, 251, 75)"><span style="color: rgb(248, 245, 68)"><span style="color: rgb(253, 249, 99)"><span style="color: rgb(247, 239, 34)"><span style="color: rgb(246, 248, 58)"><span style="color: rgb(247, 38, 203)"><span style="color: rgb(252, 246, 100)">__The Picture of<span style="color: rgb(255, 247, 102)"> Dorian Gray __<span style="color: rgb(255, 247, 102)"> was a very good. The beginning of the book starts off with lots of detail of each character and lets you see what each character is like. It doesn't just flat out say the characteristics of each character. Wilde used the characters behaviors to show this. In each situation you got a feel <span style="color: rgb(250, 244, 66)"> of the personality of each character and you grew to know each character on how they acted. As the book progresses it shows madness and suspense and you never know what happens next. Although this book was outstanding Wilde put information in that wasn't necessarily needed in the amou nt that he used. If he would of taken some of the extra information out or summarized it readers wouldn't' lose focus or get confused.

=<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(131, 252, 39)">Recommendation = <span style="color: rgb(50, 246, 49)">This book was very interesting which makes it hard to put down. I would recommend this book to anyone, especially those who enjoy reading suspense or books about people going mad.To watch a man start off so together and then as the book progresses watch him fall apart piece by piece is interesting. You see his emotions and how he becomes paranoid of everything around him. I recommend that you take the time to read this book for yourself and experience everything this man went through.

=<span style="color: rgb(86, 228, 68); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Why is it Outstanding? = <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(13, 253, 51)">I believe that this book is outstanding for several reasons. It shows that anything someone says can be taken to an extreme even though it may not have been meant to taken than way. This shows that as you go through life you shouldn't take what everyone says seriously. Just live life the best you can and not worry about the future because you can't control it. =<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(180, 37, 187)">Literacy Information = >    <span style="color: rgb(226, 29, 206)"> <span style="color: rgb(226, 29, 206)"> <span style="color: rgb(226, 29, 206)"> <span style="color: rgb(226, 29, 206)"> <span style="color: rgb(226, 29, 206)"> <span style="color: rgb(226, 29, 206)"> <span style="color: rgb(217, 27, 218)"><span style="color: rgb(226, 29, 221)"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(181, 47, 182)">
 * <span style="color: rgb(231, 37, 233)"><span style="color: rgb(230, 55, 229)"><span style="color: rgb(217, 27, 218)"><span style="color: rgb(241, 43, 243)"><span style="color: rgb(234, 57, 224)">Genre: Gothic, philosophical, comedy of manners<span style="color: rgb(226, 29, 221)">   <span style="color: rgb(234, 57, 224)">
 * <span style="color: rgb(231, 37, 233)"><span style="color: rgb(230, 55, 229)"><span style="color: rgb(234, 57, 224)"> <span style="color: rgb(217, 27, 218)"><span style="color: rgb(241, 43, 243)"><span style="color: rgb(226, 29, 221)">Setting: 1890's in London, England
 * <span style="color: rgb(231, 37, 233)"><span style="color: rgb(230, 55, 229)"><span style="color: rgb(234, 57, 224)"><span style="color: rgb(217, 27, 218)"><span style="color: rgb(241, 43, 243)"><span style="color: rgb(226, 29, 221)">  <span style="color: rgb(217, 27, 218)"><span style="color: rgb(241, 43, 243)"><span style="color: rgb(226, 29, 221)">Main Characters: Basil Hallward, Dorian Gray, & Lord Henry Wotton.
 * <span style="color: rgb(231, 37, 233)"><span style="color: rgb(234, 57, 224)">Minor Characters: Sybil Vane, James Vane, Mrs., Vane, Alan Campbell, Lady Agatha, Lord Fermor, Lady Victoria Wotton, &Victor<span style="color: rgb(230, 55, 229)">
 * <span style="color: rgb(231, 37, 233)">Point of View: Third Person<span style="color: rgb(217, 27, 218)"><span style="color: rgb(241, 43, 243)"><span style="color: rgb(226, 29, 221)"><span style="color: rgb(223, 48, 203)">
 * <span style="color: rgb(231, 37, 233)"><span style="color: rgb(217, 27, 218)"><span style="color: rgb(241, 43, 243)"><span style="color: rgb(226, 29, 221)"><span style="color: rgb(223, 48, 203)">   <span style="color: rgb(217, 27, 218)"><span style="color: rgb(241, 43, 243)"><span style="color: rgb(226, 29, 221)">   <span style="color: rgb(230, 55, 229)"> <span style="color: rgb(230, 55, 229)"> <span style="color: rgb(217, 27, 218)"><span style="color: rgb(241, 43, 243)"><span style="color: rgb(226, 29, 221)">   <span style="color: rgb(217, 27, 218)"><span style="color: rgb(241, 43, 243)">  <span style="color: rgb(226, 29, 206)"><span style="color: rgb(217, 27, 218)"><span style="color: rgb(241, 43, 243)"><span style="color: rgb(226, 29, 221)">  <span style="color: rgb(226, 29, 221)">The only novel that was ever published that was written by Oscar Wilde.   <span style="color: rgb(230, 55, 229)"><span style="color: rgb(217, 27, 218)"><span style="color: rgb(241, 43, 243)"><span style="color: rgb(226, 29, 221)">
 * <span style="color: rgb(231, 37, 233)"><span style="color: rgb(234, 57, 224)"> <span style="color: rgb(226, 29, 206)"><span style="color: rgb(218, 16, 204)">Turned into a movie in 1945 directed by Albert Lewin
 * <span style="color: rgb(231, 37, 233)"><span style="color: rgb(226, 29, 206)"> <span style="color: rgb(234, 57, 224)"><span style="color: rgb(230, 55, 229)"><span style="color: rgb(217, 27, 218)"><span style="color: rgb(226, 29, 221)"> It won and Oscar and two other awards and two more nominations

=<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(181, 47, 182)">Themes = <span style="color: rgb(239, 26, 213)"> <span style="color: rgb(239, 26, 213)"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(12, 29, 237)"> <span style="color: rgb(234, 31, 204)"> <span style="color: rgb(234, 31, 204)"> <span style="color: rgb(217, 27, 218)"><span style="color: rgb(241, 43, 243)"><span style="color: rgb(226, 29, 221)"><span style="color: rgb(224, 41, 217)">    <span style="color: rgb(217, 27, 218)"><span style="color: rgb(241, 43, 243)"><span style="color: rgb(226, 29, 221)"><span style="color: rgb(224, 41, 217)">    <span style="color: rgb(215, 25, 213)"> <span style="color: rgb(230, 45, 221)"><span style="color: rgb(227, 28, 216)"><span style="color: rgb(215, 25, 213)"> = <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(12, 29, 237)">Movie Trailer = = = media type="youtube" key="L__lJLqwTSQ" height="344" width="425" =<span style="color: rgb(241, 43, 243)"> =
 * <span style="color: rgb(230, 45, 221)"><span style="color: rgb(227, 28, 216)"><span style="color: rgb(215, 25, 213)"><span style="color: rgb(234, 31, 204)"><span style="color: rgb(240, 36, 233)">T<span style="color: rgb(228, 27, 224)">he purpose of art
 * <span style="color: rgb(228, 27, 224)">The supremacy of youth and beauty<span style="color: rgb(234, 31, 204)"> <span style="color: rgb(230, 45, 221)"><span style="color: rgb(227, 28, 216)"><span style="color: rgb(215, 25, 213)"><span style="color: rgb(234, 31, 204)"><span style="color: rgb(224, 41, 217)">
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 * <span style="color: rgb(228, 27, 224)">The negative consequences of influence

= = =<span style="color: rgb(53, 182, 237)"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(36, 195, 229)">Biography = <span style="color: rgb(53, 182, 237)"><span style="color: rgb(7, 143, 242)"><span style="color: rgb(29, 166, 237)"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(254, 72, 169)"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 155, 255)"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Oscar Wilde was born o n October 16, 1854 in Dublin. He attended Trinity College, and Magdalen College, Oxford. He lived in London and was married to Constance Lloyd in 1884. He was known for his biting wit. He became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victoria    <span style="color: rgb(7, 143, 242)"> <span style="color: rgb(53, 182, 237)"><span style="color: rgb(7, 143, 242)"><span style="color: rgb(29, 166, 237)"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(254, 72, 169)"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 155, 255)">n Era in London. He was also one of the greatest cele    <span style="color: rgb(7, 143, 242)"> <span style="color: rgb(53, 182, 237)"><span style="color: rgb(7, 143, 242)"><span style="color: rgb(29, 166, 237)"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(254, 72, 169)"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 155, 255)">braties of his day. His novel, //__The Picture of Dorian Gray__//, was first published in __Lippincot__    <span style="color: rgb(7, 143, 242)"> <span style="color: rgb(53, 182, 237)"><span style="color: rgb(7, 143, 242)"><span style="color: rgb(29, 166, 237)"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(254, 72, 169)"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 155, 255)">__t's Monthly Magazine__ in 1890.The revised and expanded edition was published in 1891 because he was getting a negative response which criticized the book's immortality. In 1895, after a public scandal with Lord Alfred Douglas, he was sentenced to two years' hard labor    <span style="color: rgb(7, 143, 242)"> <span style="color: rgb(53, 182, 237)"><span style="color: rgb(7, 143, 242)"><span style="color: rgb(29, 166, 237)"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(254, 72, 169)"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 155, 255)"> in Reading Gaol for 'gross indecency'. He wrote a poem called //The Ballad of Reading Gaol// that was based on his experiences in prison. It w    <span style="color: rgb(7, 143, 242)"><span style="color: rgb(29, 166, 237)"><span style="color: rgb(53, 182, 237)"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(254, 72, 169)"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 155, 255)">as published in 1898. After he was released he never lived in England again. He died in Paris on November 30, 1900. He <span style="color: rgb(58, 164, 233)">was buried in Pere Lachaise cemetery.

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