The Bloody Chamber/ Dorian Gray Flashcards
Critics - Dorian Gray
Irvine Welsh
“the portrait sinisterly ages; growing more debased in concert with the protagonists moral decline, even as Gray himself continues to appear unsullied and innocent”
Roger Lockhurst
“Victorians trained in moral physiognomy, believed that sin was written on the body, so despite the ugly rumours, no-one can believe anything ill of the unageing beauty of Dorian”
Alex Ross
“Lord Henry, a mephistophelian aesthete who seems to become Wilde’s mouthpiece”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“man is not truly one but truly two”
Ann Radcliffe
“Terror and horror are so far opposite that the first expands the soul, and awakens the faculties to a high degree of life; the other contracts, freezes and nearly annihilates them”
The daily chronicle
“Dullness and dirt are the chief features of Lippincott’s this month”
Greg Buzwell
Dark desires and forbidden pleasures are at the centre of The picture of Dorian Gray”
Greg Buzwell
“It is no longer the physical landscape that provides the location for Gothic tales but rather, more disturbingly, the human body itself”
Barbara Gates
“Wilde reveals a fractured place where everyone is doomed to untimely death”
Greg Buzwell
“Urban slums with their dark labyrinthine streets and seedy areas of vice and squalor supplanted ivy-clad castles and catacombs as the settings for Gothic terror”
St James’ Gazette
“It constantly hints at disgusting sins and abominable crimes”
Scot’s observer
“Why go grubbing in muck heaps? Mr. Oscar Wilde has been writing stuff that were better unwritten”
