The Picture of Dorian Grey

Question 1

1.Plot

Answer 1

I’ll watch the movie lol

Question 2

2.What does Dorian Grey represent?

Answer 2

He stands for the ideal of beauty, innocence and ideal youth.

Question 3

3.What does his surname suggest?

Answer 3

It suggests that he is morally grey, nor black nor white.

Question 4

4. Who is Henry Wotton?

Answer 4

He is a brilliant talker and an amoral aesthete .He believes youth is the most important value and criticises institutions considered sacred for the people of the time.

Question 5

5. Who does Basil Hallward represent ?

Answer 5

He is an artist fascinated with Dorian’s beauty and youth

-He represents Victorian society and its hypocrisy ?

Question 6

6. What does the picture stand for ?

Answer 6

When corrupted it represents the double of Dorian so his dark side

or symbol of immorality of victorian middle class

Question 7

7. What theme is present throughout the whole novel ? What is the novel’s moral?

Answer 7

The contrast between reality and appearance

moral= every excess brings consequences

Question 8

8. What narrative technique is employed?

Answer 8

narrator= unobtrusive third-person

-paradoxes, witty dialogue + harmonious diction

-characters reveal themselves through what they say or what others say about them