Chapter 6 Quotes Flashcards
Basil
‘But think of Dorian’s birth, and position, and wealth. It would be absurd…
for him to marry so much beneath him’
Victorian attitude to inter class marriage
Lord Henry about Dorian
‘He would be a …
wonderful study’
to LH D is an experiment in manipulation
Dorian about Sibyl
‘Her hair clustered around her face like …
dark leaves round a pale rose’
similar imagery to that to describe Dorian. Like LH manipulates Dorian, Dorian seeks to manipulate the innocent Sibyl.
Dorian on kissing Sibyl
‘It seemed to me that all my life had been narrowed to one perfect point of…
rose coloured joy’
he is looking at the situation through ‘rose coloured spectacles’ everything is not as good as they think
Dorian about Sibyl
‘I have had the arms of Rosalind around me and kissed…
Juliet on the mouth’
he sees her as Shakespeare’s characters and not who she really is. He is in a fantasy world
Dorian
‘When you see Sibyl Vane you will feel that a man who could wrong her would be a …
beast, a beast without a heart’
Ironic and foreshadowing. Dorian loses his soul and ‘heart’ where the soul id thought to be located.
Dorian
‘I love Sibyl Vane. I want to place her on a …
pedestal of gold, and see the world worship the woman who is mine’
Sexist objectification, sees her as another thing to buy of beauty. Gold shows her worth and beauty.
Lord Henry
‘I should fancy that the real tragedy of the poor is they can afford nothing but…
self-denial. Beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich’
class divide
Dorian on married women
‘Women give the very gold…
of their lives’
Basil on finding out about Dorians love for Sibyl
‘A strange sense of …
loss came over him’
homosexual
