Chapter 17 Quotes Flashcards

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Q

‘A jaded looking man of…

A

sixty’

Shows distain towards age

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Lord Henry

‘Yesterday I cut an orchid for my buttonholed. It was a marvellous spotted thing…

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as effective as the seven deadly virtues.’

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Dorian about Lord Henry

‘His name is …

A

Prince Paradox’

He says one thing and does another

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Lord Henry

‘Beer, the bible and the seven deadly virtues have made our England…

A

what she is.’

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Duchess to Lord Henry

‘What are you?’

‘To define is…

A

to limit.’

What are you not who are you, she sees his devilish ways? And he does not want a definition

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Duchess about Dorian

‘I believe he thinks that Monmouth married me in purely…

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scientific principles as the best specimen he could find of a modern butterfly.’

Shows the Victorian obsession of collecting beauty even if it means killing the thing inside (like LH with Dorian perhaps)

Also shows the objectification of women

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7
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‘A burnt child loves…

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the fire.’

Dorian loves the sins that burn him and ruin him

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8
Q

LH about Women

‘Sphinxes without…

A

secrets.’

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‘Pressed again the windows of the conservatory, like a white handkerchief. He had seen …

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the face of James Vane.’

white handkerchief - pale and ill like James for looking for Dorian

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