Chapter 7 Quotes

Question 1

Dorian meeting the Jew again

‘He felt her had come to look for Miranda but…

Answer 1

had been met by Caliban’

Shakespeare reference again.

Question 2

Description of the theatre that links to Paradise Lost

‘The heat was terribly oppressive and the huge sunlight flamed like…

Answer 2

a monstrous dahlia with petals of yellow fire.’

yellow fire- dangerous
flower imagery

Question 3

D about theatre

‘They talked to each other across the theatre, and shared their oranges with the tawdry girls beside them…

Answer 3

some women were laughing. Their voices were horribly shrill and discordant.’

discordant, the aristocratic men feel out of place, they don’t fit in

Question 4

D on Sibyl’s acting

‘They weep and laugh as she will them to do. She makes them as responsive…

Answer 4

as a violin.’

mimics lord henry ‘exquisite violin quote’. He admires Sibyl for her manipulative ability in acting.

Question 5

Lord Henry on being the same as the people in the gallery

'’The same flesh and blood as one’s self! Oh I hope not!’ exclaimed Lord Henry…

Answer 5

who was scanning the occupants if the gallery through his opera glass.’

use this on class divide.

Question 6

about Sibyl

‘There was something of the fawn in her…

Answer 6

shy grace and startled eyes.’

young and beautiful, but will later be killed as a fawn would

Question 7

about Sibyl

‘the curves of her throat were the curves of a …

Answer 7

white lily. Her hands seemed to be made of cool ivory.’

value and beauty. white -innocence

Question 8

Sibyl

‘Her gestures became …

Answer 8

absurdly artificial’

Question 9

Sibyl’s bad acting

‘painful precision of a school-girl who has been taught to recite by…

Answer 9

some second-rate professor of elocution.’

Question 10

D on Sibyl’s bad acting

‘She was a complete…

Answer 10

failure.’

Question 11

D on Sibyl’s bad acting

‘last night she was a great actress. This evening she is …

Answer 11

merely a commonplace, mediocre actress’

Question 12

D to Sibyl after her bad acting

‘You have no idea what…

Answer 12

I suffered’

he thinks only of himself, selfish

Question 13

Sibyl to Dorian about his love

‘you freed my soul from…

Answer 13

prison.’

he was her way out of her trapped life

Question 14

D to S

‘He flung himself down on the sofa, and turned away his face ‘you have…

Answer 14

killed my love’, he muttered.’

Question 15

D to S

‘You are shallow and stupid. My God! how mad I was to love you! What a fool I have been ! You are nothing to me now…

Answer 15

I will never see you again. I will never think of you.’

Question 16

D to S

‘What are you now?…

Answer 16

a third-rate actress with a pretty face.’

rhetorical q

Question 17

Sibyl to D

‘she flung herself at his feet and lay there like a …

Answer 17

trampled flower’

she has previously lots of flower imagery
she dies quickly like a flower and has beauty

Question 18

Dorian

‘his chiselled lips curled in…

Answer 18

exquisite distain.’

Question 19

D

‘he remembered walking through dimly-lit streets, past gaunt black-shadowed …

Answer 19

archways and evil looking houses.’

Dorian’s way of looking at the world changes after Sibyl, the evil in him makes him see the setting like this.

Question 20

D

‘the face appeared to him to be a little changed. The expression looked different. One would have said that there was a touch of…

Answer 20

cruelty in the mouth. It was certainly strange,.’

Question 21

‘The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if…

Answer 21

he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.’

Question 22

‘He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain young, and the portrait grow old; that his own beauty might be…

Answer 22

untarnished and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins.’

Question 23

D on the portrait and science

‘Such things were impossible. It seemed monstrous to even think of them. And, yet, there was the…

Answer 23

picture before him, with the touch of cruelty in the mouth.’

Question 24

D about S, regrets

‘He remembered with what …

Answer 24

callousness he had watched her.’

Question 25

D on the portrait

‘It held the secret of his life, and told his story. It had taught him to…

Answer 25

love his own beauty. Would it teach his to loathe his own soul?’

Question 26

D on the portrait

‘It had altered already, and would alter more. Its gold would…

Answer 26

wither into grey. Its red and white roses would die. For every sin that he committed, a stain would fleck and wreck its fairness.’