Chapter 17 Quotes

Question 1

‘A jaded looking man of…

Answer 1

sixty’

Shows distain towards age

Question 2

Lord Henry

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

Answer 2

as effective as the seven deadly virtues.’

Question 3

Dorian about Lord Henry

‘His name is …

Answer 3

Prince Paradox’

He says one thing and does another

Question 4

Lord Henry

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

Answer 4

what she is.’

Question 5

Duchess to Lord Henry

‘What are you?’

‘To define is…

Answer 5

to limit.’

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

Question 6

Duchess about Dorian

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

Answer 6

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

Question 7

‘A burnt child loves…

Answer 7

the fire.’

Dorian loves the sins that burn him and ruin him

Question 8

LH about Women

‘Sphinxes without…

Answer 8

secrets.’

Question 9

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

Answer 9

the face of James Vane.’

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