Chapter 14 Quotes Flashcards
Dorian after the night he killed Basil
‘a faint smile passed across his lips, as though he had…
been lost in some delightful dream,’
The murder has not affected him, he Is not wracked with guilt.
‘the events of the previous night crept with silent…
blood stained feet into his brain.’
personified the events
stain= stain of his conscious
but silent, he does not feel huge guilt
‘he remarked that every face he drew seemed to have a fantastic likeness to …
Basil Hallward’
He is subconsciously feeling the guilt
‘Poor Basil! what a horrible way for a man…
to die.’
He almost does not acknowledge that it is him who commits the murder, due to his duality it is almost the portrait that does it.
Dorian
‘began to pace up and down the room, looking like a …
beautiful caged thing.’
Dorian is stuck in this cage of sin, he thinks he is free to do what he likes but he can not escape his cage. Bird imagery, related to Sibyl being like a caged bird too.
Dorian to Alan Campbell
‘What you have got to do is to destroy the thing that is upstairs- to destroy it so that
not a vestige of it will be left.’
Still calling it a thing, can’t acknowledge it as a body.
By destroying the body in Victorian belief this means he also destroys Basil’s chance of going to heaven and Dorian denies him a proper burial.
Alan Campbell to Dorian
‘What is it to me what…
devil’s work you are up to?’
Alan sees Dorian as Devil like, he has tried to escape his influence. Impression they were once in a homosexual relationship.
‘he felt as if his heart was beating itself to death in…
some empty hollow.’
Foreshadows Alan’s suicide, becomes clear that Dorian is blackmailing him. Alan feels anxiety and alone.
‘The hand upon his shoulder weighed like a hand of lead. It was intolerable. It…
seemed to crush him.’
Dorian places heavy and shame on Alan Campbell’s shoulders in order to control and manipulate him. Dorian’s hand is cold like metal showing he heartless ness and cold demeanour. He can crush Alan and does when he later commits suicide when he can’t bear the pressure.
Alan to Dorian
‘You have gone from corruption to corruption and now you …
have culminated in crime’
makes it sound inevitable.
‘Campbell felt…
dominated by him.’
’ What was that loathsome red dew that gleamed wet and glistening, …
on one of the hands, as though the canvas had sweated blood.’
Dorian’s soul now has blood on his hand. Macbeth imagery? He has directly committed murder.
‘the thing that had been sitting at the table…
was gone.’
