Chapter 18 Quotes Flashcards
Dorian
‘Sick with a wild terror of dying and yet indifferent to life itself. The consciousness of being hunted, snared…
tracked down, had begun to dominate him.’
James says he will kill him like a dog. This fits the metaphor. He also talked of being a hunted animal when killing Basil.
Dorian
‘In the common world of fact the wicked were…
not punished, nor the good rewarded.’
Dorian
‘The mask of youth…
had saved him.’
mask- it is not the real him he is hiding inside his beauty masking his true self
Dorian
‘What sort of life would his be if, day and night, shadows of his crime were to peer at him from silent corners, to mock him from secret places, to whisper in his ear as he sat at the feast, to wake him with…
icy fingers as he lay asleep! As the thought crept through his brain, he grew pale with terror and the air seemed to him to have become suddenly colder.’
Cold air shows his fear. The ice fingers also the cold fear of being found out
Dorian
‘Out if the black cave of Time, terrible and swathed in scarlet rose the…
image of his sin.’
Analyse the colour scarlet
time personified
Fear of being found out
D about the bullet that kills James Vane
‘Don’t shoot it Geoffrey. Let it
live.’
Ironic as this action saves him, maybe inside he doesn’t want to be saved
D about the beaters death
‘It’s a bad omen, Harry, …
a very bad omen.’
He thinks he will die next
LH to D
‘Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or…
to cruel for that.’
D
‘I have no terror of Death. It is the coming of death that terrifies me. It’s monstrous wings…
seem to wheel in the leaden air around me.’
He makes Death into a beast,
Leaden air. He feels the world weighing down on him and feels hunted by death. He is vulnerable
D
‘You would sacrifice anybody, Harry, for the sake of…
an epigram.’
'’I wish I could love’, cried Dorian Gray, with a deep…
note of pathos.’
He realised what he has missed in life
D
‘My own personality has become a burden to me. I want to…
escape, to go away, to forget.’
His sinful soul has him trapped
About Duchess
‘Her teeth showed like white seeds in a …
scarlet fruit.’
She is dangerous and tempting and delicious to Dorian as someone to corrupt
D
‘Life had suddenly become too hideous a burden for him to bear. The dreadful death of the unlikely beater, shut in the thicket like…
a wild animal, had seemed to him to prefigure death for himself also.’
Wild animal, like dog
About Selby Royal
‘It was an ill omened place. Death walked here in …
the sunlight.’
He feels death is all around him
