Themes A05 DG/BC Flashcards
1
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Raitt
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His new type of pleasure is in fact a regressive move into more primitive, even bestial modes of being
2
Q
Herdman
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the concept of moral evil became associated with the primitive, the savage and the untamed in the human spirit”
3
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Maudsley
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‘behind each face is the latent faces of ancestors ‘
4
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Savoy on HOL
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“haunted by an inconsistent past”
5
Q
- Wilde himself asserts ‘critic of the artist (1891)-
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- the scientific principle of Heredity… has shown us that we are never less free than when we try to act.
6
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James
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Dorian is both master and servant to his portrait. The portrait symbolizes the duality of his existence: outwardly powerful and eternally young, but inwardly enslaved by his own desires,
7
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Ellman
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Dorian’s betrayal is not only of others but of his own soul,
