TPDG: Quotations Flashcards
1
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Setting descriptions
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- “A labyrinth of grimy streets and black grassless squares.”
- The “gaunt black-shadowed archways and evil-looking houses”.
- At the opium dens, the “moon hung low in the sky like a yellow skull”.
2
Q
Internalised conflict
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- Basil passes a “dreadful evening, half afraid that one tragedy might be followed by another”.
- Basil states that there is “something fatal” about a portrait. It has a “life of its own”.
- Dorian’s idyllic morning is ruined by the “silent, blood-stained feet into his brain” which “reconstructed themselves” with a “terrible distinctness”.
3
Q
Depredation of people
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- Dorian mocks Basil’s “misshapen body and the failing limbs” with his “white hands”.
- The street goers are described as “dark”, “monstrous”, “grotesque” and “evil-looking”.
- “He knew what was waiting for him there; saw it, indeed, and, shuddering, crushed with dank hands his burning lids as though he would have robbed the very brain of sight and driven the eyeballs back into the cave”.
