Dorian Gray Chapter 20

Question 1

What does Dorian hope to see when he looks at his portrait once again?

Answer 1

He hopes it doesn’t look as horrible as it did since he helped Hetty. He hopes that those “signs of evil” have disappeared

Question 2

Does Dorian Gray intend to kill himself?

Answer 2

He actually didn’t as he intended to destroy the portrait, but doing so broke the Faustian pact. Thus when he tried to destroy the painting, he actually killed himself. The portrait became normal, and Dorian Gray died an old and wrinkled man.

Question 3

What appears lost to Dorian?

Answer 3

Every pleasure

Question 4

What does Dorian ponder at night in his home?

Answer 4

Whether Henry’s words that one could never change hold any truth

Question 5

What does Dorian long to reclaim?

Answer 5

The pure emotions of his childhood

Question 6

What does Dorian now feel about the pact he made?

Answer 6

He deeply regrets the ill-fated wish he made to the portrait, for it would be marvelous now to experience each repercussion for each transgression in a natural form of justice.

Question 7

What does Dorian feel when he looks into the mirror Henry had given him?

Answer 7

He recalls the words of a former lover, claiming that the allure of his features has altered history.

Question 8

How does Dorian now feel about his appearance?

Answer 8

He now despises it feeling it to be his adversary

Question 9

What does Dorian dedicate himself to do?

Answer 9

He cannot permit himself to dwell on the past so he decides once more to embark on a new way of life, hoping that if he lives virtuously enough, the portrait will eventually revert to its original state.

Question 10

What does Dorian see when he pulls back the cover of the painting?

Answer 10

The figure appears even more repulsive than before observing that red stains have appeared on the painting, resembling blood.

Question 11

Why does Dorian think the portrait has not changed?

Answer 11

Perhaps it is his recent commitment to righteousness, suspecting that perhaps it’s vain to think he could possibly right his wrongs.

Question 12

What is now entirely obscure to Dorian?

Answer 12

His motives

Question 13

What does Dorian do in a moment of agitation?

Answer 13

He seizes a knife and intends to destroy the painting which has ruined his existence

Question 14

What alerts the servants to Dorian’s room? How do they enter?

Answer 14

A loud and terrible scream, unable to open the door they enter through a balcony

Question 15

How do Dorian’s servants recognize the horrid and misshapen corpse to be Dorian’s?

Answer 15

The grotesque and aged body is found to be Dorian’s only by the rings on his finger

Question 16

What happens to the portrait when Dorian stabs it?

Answer 16

It has become a young and handsome man?

Question 17

What does Dorian feel tired of?

Answer 17

As he walks to his home he hears a man utter whether they just saw Dorian Gray to which he remembers the pleasure he felt at such occurences but now he just feels tired at hearing his name

Question 18

What was the charm Dorian felt when he was in the country village?

Answer 18

That no one knew his name, they thought he was just another poor country boy

Question 19

What words from Dorian’s lover does he still think of?

Answer 19

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history

Question 20

What does Dorian think has ruined him?

Answer 20

His beauty

Question 21

What does Dorian think of when remembering his past transgressions?

Answer 21

James Vanes’s death
Alan Campbell’s suicide
Basil’s murder & coverup
The death of his own soul, that was the gravest

Question 22

Why does Dorian think Alan killed himself?

Answer 22

He killed himself in his laboratory after destroying Basil’s body

Question 23

Why can Dorian not forgive Basil?

Answer 23

Because he made the painting for Dorian and the painting is what Dorian think marred his life

Question 24

How does Dorian try and justify the deaths of Basil and Allen?

Answer 24

Allen killed himself on his own volition and Basil’s was simply a moment of madness

Question 25

Why does Dorian want to destory the painting?

Answer 25

It was the only piece of evidence left against him
It ceased to give him pleasure
It had been like a conscience to him

Question 26

What is interesting about the act of Dorian destroying the portrait?

Answer 26

He uses the same knife he killed Basil with

Question 27

When Dorian screams, who outside hears it?

Answer 27

A constable and 2 old men, one of which is Henry Ashton’s uncle which disparages against the constable doing anything in response to the scream