dorians narcissistic love

Question 1

at beginning, dorians self love is innocent as he’s unaware of his own beauty

Question 2

visible change in personality after seeing painting of himself

Question 3

dorian becomes aware of people’s admiration for his looks. compares himself to bronze figures, an ivory hermès and a silver faun

Question 4

only noticed and complimented for his appearance

Question 5

shows he only cared for sibyl vane as someone who could portray timeless heroines after breaking engagement off

Question 6

sibyl gained worth in that she too, even for a short while, froze time to present the timeless historical heroines

Question 7

dorian becomes the person henry himself dreams of being

Question 8

dorian first blames sibyl for changes in picture but realizes it’s his own doing

Question 9

constantly puts blame on others. also blames basil saying that if he’d not created the painting dorian’s soul would still be safe

Question 10

his self love can be compared to narcissus

Question 11

dorian and narcissus are overly in love with themselves and hold pride in their beauty

Question 12

dorian and narcissus are in love with their reflections: dorians being his portrait and narcissus being his face reflected in the water

Question 13

dorian and narcissus both kill themselves, dorian because of his obsession with the painting and narcissus because he can’t obtain the object of his desire

Question 14

wilde focuses on art as a mirror to false and true images of the self

Question 15

a moder day narcissus, dorian exchanges his “original self”/soul

Question 16

yellow book given by lord henry symbolizes henry’s narcissistic perspective on art and life which dorian gets influenced by and drawn into

Question 17

not horrified or emotionally shaken by basils death, what horrified him is the changes the painting underwent

Question 18

dorian refers to basils corpse as a “thing”. “there was a horrible smell of nitric acid in the room. but the thing that had been sitting at the table was gone”

Question 19

by end of novel dorian resents his youth and starts seeing it as negative and repulsive

Question 20

dorians self love is based on his narcissism that ultimately proves fatal as it provides an image of the self and what it’s not. it distorts as it reflects

Question 21

his attempt to annihilate his true image and its visible emblem results in his own annihilating , a cracked looking glass of the self