Dorian gray - a05

Question 1

Delman

Answer 1

• Dorian’s consumer-drive forces him to reject the natural /painting gives Dorian license to turn against the natural laws of society without punishment

Question 2

James

Answer 2

‘dorian is both servant and master to his portiait, shows the duality of being’

Question 3

Cohen-Portait

Answer 3

born of the conjunction between Basil’s visual embodiment of erotic
desire for Dorian and Lord Henry’s verbal sublimation of such desire”

Wilde communicates homosexual by
“suggested by a verbally unrepresentable medium, the painting” (806)

Question 4

Parent

Answer 4

• Wotton’s influence planted a deviant seed but it was Gray who chose to nourish it

Question 5

Schmidt

Answer 5

In Freud’s theory of personality, Dorian’s character identifies deeply with the ID… has no morality and no personal idenitity’