Chapter 7 Quotes Flashcards
Dorian meeting the Jew again
‘He felt her had come to look for Miranda but…
had been met by Caliban’
Shakespeare reference again.
Description of the theatre that links to Paradise Lost
‘The heat was terribly oppressive and the huge sunlight flamed like…
a monstrous dahlia with petals of yellow fire.’
yellow fire- dangerous
flower imagery
D about theatre
‘They talked to each other across the theatre, and shared their oranges with the tawdry girls beside them…
some women were laughing. Their voices were horribly shrill and discordant.’
discordant, the aristocratic men feel out of place, they don’t fit in
D on Sibyl’s acting
‘They weep and laugh as she will them to do. She makes them as responsive…
as a violin.’
mimics lord henry ‘exquisite violin quote’. He admires Sibyl for her manipulative ability in acting.
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…
who was scanning the occupants if the gallery through his opera glass.’
use this on class divide.
about Sibyl
‘There was something of the fawn in her…
shy grace and startled eyes.’
young and beautiful, but will later be killed as a fawn would
about Sibyl
‘the curves of her throat were the curves of a …
white lily. Her hands seemed to be made of cool ivory.’
value and beauty. white -innocence
Sibyl
‘Her gestures became …
absurdly artificial’
Sibyl’s bad acting
‘painful precision of a school-girl who has been taught to recite by…
some second-rate professor of elocution.’
D on Sibyl’s bad acting
‘She was a complete…
failure.’
D on Sibyl’s bad acting
‘last night she was a great actress. This evening she is …
merely a commonplace, mediocre actress’
D to Sibyl after her bad acting
‘You have no idea what…
I suffered’
he thinks only of himself, selfish
Sibyl to Dorian about his love
‘you freed my soul from…
prison.’
he was her way out of her trapped life
D to S
‘He flung himself down on the sofa, and turned away his face ‘you have…
killed my love’, he muttered.’
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…
I will never see you again. I will never think of you.’
D to S
‘What are you now?…
a third-rate actress with a pretty face.’
rhetorical q
Sibyl to D
‘she flung herself at his feet and lay there like a …
trampled flower’
she has previously lots of flower imagery
she dies quickly like a flower and has beauty
Dorian
‘his chiselled lips curled in…
exquisite distain.’
D
‘he remembered walking through dimly-lit streets, past gaunt black-shadowed …
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.
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…
cruelty in the mouth. It was certainly strange,.’
‘The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if…
he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.’
‘He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain young, and the portrait grow old; that his own beauty might be…
untarnished and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins.’
D on the portrait and science
‘Such things were impossible. It seemed monstrous to even think of them. And, yet, there was the…
picture before him, with the touch of cruelty in the mouth.’
D about S, regrets
‘He remembered with what …
callousness he had watched her.’
D on the portrait
‘It held the secret of his life, and told his story. It had taught him to…
love his own beauty. Would it teach his to loathe his own soul?’
D on the portrait
‘It had altered already, and would alter more. Its gold would…
wither into grey. Its red and white roses would die. For every sin that he committed, a stain would fleck and wreck its fairness.’
