Dorian Gray Critic Quotes

Question 1

MIGHAILL

Answer 1

The novel suggests duplicity was an essential part of existence in late Victorian society

Question 2

ACKROYD

Answer 2

An image of the double life that Wilde was leading at the time

Question 3

MAUDSLEY

Answer 3

Beneath every face are the latent faces of ancestors, beneath every character their character

Question 4

DRYDEN

Answer 4

The divide between good and evil is not clear-cut

Question 5

HALBERSTAM

Answer 5

Dorian is monstrous because an exterior hides a corrupt self

Question 6

SMITH (WOMEN)

Answer 6

helpless creatures with no power and control in their own lives

Question 7

PARENT

Answer 7

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

Question 8

BAKER

Answer 8

‘art can regain its purity only when the corrupting influence has been destroyed’

Question 9

LUCKHURST

Answer 9

‘It is Stevenson’s story of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde told in reverse, Dorian keeping perfect public command of himself while his double rots in secret’

Question 10

GILMOUR

Answer 10

‘The setting of the story seems to parallel the protagonist in many instances’