DG a05

Question 1

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Answer 1

Answer (Critic Name)

Question 2

Lord Henry, a Mephistophelian aesthete who seems to become Wilde’s mouthpiece

Answer 2

Alex Ross

Question 3

To Dorian, Sybil Vane is not a real person but a menagerie of differing personalities, an abstraction of passionate and dramatic love at its very essence.

Answer 3

Zis

Question 4

“She exists in a protective world of art from which she cannot emerge without dying” (363).

Answer 4

Nassar

Question 5

The novel is an illustration of the disastrous effect of art on life and of confusing ethics with aesthetics.

Answer 5

Felluga

Question 6

Sybil Vane is dehumanised since she is not regarded as a human but an object to be controlled by the protagonist.

Answer 6

Fayard

Question 7

It is no longer the physical landscape that provides the location for Gothic tales but rather, more disturbingly, the human body itself.

Answer 7

Buzwell

Question 8

Dorian enters the spatial configuration of the novel as ‘Gray’ (almost approaching the ‘white purity of boyhood’), and during the early pages of the novel, he seems to exist on a fringe between black and white.

Answer 8

Gordon

Question 9

The ID has no mortality, if every person was controlled merely by the ID; we’d all live lives like Dorian.

Answer 9

Schmidt

Question 10

Victorians, trained in moral physiognomy, believed that sin was written on the body… no one can believe anything ill of the unageing beauty of Dorian.

Answer 10

Luckhurst