Question

I forgot to include these last sentences. I really hope you look at them, too.

1) Dorian and his pure, innocent appearance are symbols of bourgeois hypocrisy whereas the corrupting picture could be regarded as a symbol of the immorality of the Victorian middle class.
2) The story is told by a third person narrator, who is unobtrusive since he never intervenes in the narration and he never addresses the reader directly.
3) The point of view adopted is Lord Henry’s in the first part and Dorian’s in the second part of the story. This allows a process of identification between the reader and the character. 4) The settings are described with words appealing to the senses and the characters reveal themselves through what they say or what other people say of them, according to a technique which is typical of drama.
5)The story is profoundly allegorical as it can be interpreted as a 19-th century version of the myth of Faust, who sells his soul to the devil in order to satisfy all his desires. (so that all his desires are satisfied/in return for?).
6) His soul can be compared to Dorian’s picture, which records the signs of time and corruption hidden behind Dorian’s eternal beauty.
7) He also produced a series of plays, among which The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) which became his masterpiece. His novel was accused of immorality whereas his play of obscenity.
8)In 1891 he became infatuated with a boy, Alfred Douglas, with whom he had a sexual affair.
9) Forced to a public trial by the boy’s father, Wilde was convicted of homosexuality (?) and sentenced to two years of hard labour. When released from prison, he went to live in Paris under an

Answer 1

Choose no more than 5 that you are unsure of.