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Dorian's Manipulation In 'A Picture Of Dorian Gray'

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*Basil Hallward: “Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man’s face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices. There are no such things…Each of us has Heaven and Hell in him, Basil” cried Dorian with a wild gesture of despair. though Dorian starts this story innocent, it is under Lord Henrys influence that Dorian becomes corrupt, and inevitably corrupts others as well. Dorian is responsible for ruining the lives of others around hime, however it is at the fault of Lord Henry, who was the one ruin Dorians life in the first place. Manipulation is a key theme in this story. Though the influence of Lord Henry, Dorian then becomes a manipulator. Dorian manipulates his close friend Alan Campbell and blackmails him into covering …show more content…

I am not going to do any more. I began my good actions yesterday.” (p173) In the falling action of this story, we see dorian feel somewhat remorseful for what he has done in his life, he states that he will not do any more bad deeds and wants to have a new good start to life. He then starts doing good actions, instead of bad. 3. Wilde was to be accused, tried, and convicted of homosexual acts. This was against the law in the UK, and he was sentenced to several years of hard labor. The results of this was that he wrote about his time in prison in a long letter, de Profundis, where he described his spiritual journey during that time. 4. The media has corrupted the idea of youth and beauty. Some or many people have affected by this stigma around the medias person of youth and beauty. Most people, now feel ugly compared to what they see on their screen, which what they see is impossible standards. People are affect because they think they need to change themselves to look like what the medias standards are weather that be from surgeries, to eating disorders. This can can major depression, and very low self …show more content…

Bishop fisher who was also known as St. John Fisher or Cardinal Fisher was an English Catholic bishop, cardinal, and theologian. He kept as many of the poor in his house as there was room. The poor ate the same food as he did, and slept in comfortable, dry, and warm surroundings. If they could they helped out in the house, but ff they could not help, then he required nothing of them. 7. Henry Wotton represents London's high society and immoral views on life. The only thing valuable for him is the beauty. Which is why we see him as the main thing which spoiled Dorian. Lord Henry represents the immoral in this story. 8. Sybil’s brother James Vane was killed in the hunting incident because he stalks Dorian with the revenge for Sybil. In his pursuit of revenge on Dorian, he was anciently shot in a hunting excursion. 9. Sybil’s bad acting causes Dorian to reject her, which leads her to commit suicide. Faced with the reality of Dorian's rejection after her poor performance and Dorian leaves, she dies. 10. Even though this story was published in the 1800s, there is still relevancy in it today. A way this story is significant today may be the idea of influence. Through this story Dorian is influenced by Lord Henry. Much like our society is influenced by everyone. We are also easily influenced from other people, our friends, family, the media, magazines etc. We too also judge people off of their

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Chunk # 1 Chapters: 1 - 2 Set in Basil’s Home, Dorian and Henry first meet - Basil paints a portrait of Dorian and shows it to Henry - When Dorian arrives, the two meet (Henry and Dorian), and Henry speaks of his ideology - Fascinated, Dorian decides to go to the theatre with him, despite Basil’s objections – Basil objects, knowing that Dorian is quite naïve, and could easily be influenced by Henry’s cynicism Chunk # 2 Chapters: 3 - 4 Dorian and Henry’s relationship tightens, and Dorian falls in love - Henry visits his uncle to learn of Dorian’s past (Dead mother, father, raised by tyrant, the whole nine) - Goes, along with Dorian, to his aunt’s home at a small gathering, and he rants on about the hedonistic lifestyle - Dorian, being charmed by Henry’s ideals and way of

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Dorian Gray abandons parts of himself to please the devil figure, Lord Henry, and for his own greed for beauty and youth. In a discussion with Lord Henry about marriage, Dorian reaffirms Lord Henry’s belief and “[puts] it into practice” (34). Lord Henry has such an influence on Dorian Gray that Dorian states “I do everything you say” (34). There are several personality traits of a devil archetype: clever, charming, the ability to lie and manipulate, heartless, and mercifulness (Archetypes). Certainly Dorian Gray has his own morals, however, whenever Lord Henry is around he seems to surrenders his own to learn the corrupted perspective.

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Henry’s influence, which Basil had foreshadowed, altered the purities of Dorian into an egotistical monster. Dorian Gray’s story is a “conventionally moralistic one, preaching for the power of conscience and against vanity” (Ruddick). The vanity sparked in Dorian Gray aspires Lord Henry’s personal psychological curiosities, and he encourages Gray to follow Henry’s lead without realizing how infamously his experiment had developed. Initially, when Basil had known Dorian Gray the innocent, Basil knew the effects Lord Henry could potentially have on his artistic idol; the artwork of Gray foreshadowed the monster in Gray after Lord Henry’s speech including “The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist is, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful” alongside how beauty surpasses any other value in life-- the combination of these two speeches acts as the seed implanted to create the monstrous Dorian Gray (Wilde 13-14).

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Take ownership of your actions and man up and deal with the consequences. Lord Henry was partially responsible for Dorian’s corruption but Dorian cannot lay all the blame on him. Dorian’s the one who confused love with lust; lead a girl on, then broke her heart. He was the cause of her suicide and he was delusional to think that her life was just a fiction of his imagination. He never knew what love was because the only thing he ever knew was art.

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He was incredibly cruel towards Sibyl Vane and caused her to commit suicide. Due to Lord Henry’s influence he does not blame himself, yet he blames Sibyl for acting poorly. As the cruel actions continue Dorian gets deeper and deeper into the lifestyle of Lord Henry, to the point where he shrugs off a loved one's death as it is nothing. Sibyl’s purely innocent personality contrasted with Dorian’s cruel and hedonistic life which shows just how Dorian is developing as a

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Dorian definitely now enters the other world while also creating the “spark of a transformation”, all from the influence of Lord Henry. Dorian’s attitude and

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After the death of Sibyl, Dorian feels responsible for her death knowing that his horrible words towards her was the cause of it. Lord Henry then lends Dorian “The Yellow Book” which is about a character who is beautiful with an immoral life of sin that reminds Dorian of himself. However, the character in the book suddenly loses his beauty which terrifies Dorian thinking that the same thing would happen to him as he thought the character’s sudden change was “remarkable” (138). The Yellow Book started to influence Dorian and still continued to have a

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His idolization of Dorian causes him to let Dorian dominate him. Small as it is, it shows Dorian for the first time what his beauty can do to people. The fact that people are willing to believe and do anything for him because of his beauty. This realization causes a lot of problems later on in the storyline. Lord Henry Wotton is another influencer on Dorian Gray.

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Dorian Gray is a handsome, narcissistic young man enthralled by Lord Henry 's new enjoyment. He satisfies in every pleasure of moral and immoral life ultimately heads to death. Henry tells

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Lord Henry’s painting showed Dorian the reality of life and all the sins he had committed. With the picture, Dorian destroyed it plus his own life because he could not bear the fact that his beauty was going to fade. In addition, Henry influences Dorian by manipulating him because; he carries on with his idea of remaining youthful. This is evident when he says, "To get back to my youth, I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable" (Liebman 300). Lord Henry had everything to do with Dorian’s obsession of wanting to remain young especially with the picture and his philosophy.

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This starts to make Dorian wonder and soon will cause a great effect on Dorian. Lord Henry attempts to convince Dorian which has some effect on him but the poison needs to take its course through Dorian, before it changes him

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As the portrait significantly becomes more hideous, Dorian gradually loses his mind. The reader understands that what eventually leads Dorian to kill Basil Hallward, the only true friend he has, is the constant reminder of the evil found at the heart of Dorian’s nature, as represented by the portrait. In Dorian doing so, the reader realises that not only does Dorian kill Basil, he also kills his only chance of redemption of his soul. The reader realises that the statement that Dorian had expressed earlier in the story was the truth: “Yes, Basil could have saved him. But it was too late now.”

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