The Picture Of Dorian Gray

About Author:
Oscar Wilde(1854-1900): Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish
playwright, novelist, short story writer and poet. With his needlelike style, he
became one of the most successful and famous writers of Decadent Victorian
Great Britain. When he was found guilty of actual living and immorality as a
result of a trial, he had a big fall and died in a poor hotel room in Paris, in
complete contrast to the environment in which he was born.
Subject:
The Portrait of Dorian Gray is a philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, published in
1891. It is Wilde's only published novel. It is about a handsome man who is a
Junkie and a lover of pleasure and beauty who wishes that his portrait on the
canvas would age instead of him and when this wish is realized, he goes astray
and degenerates.
Characters:
Dorian Gray - A handsome young man who was influenced by Lord Henry's
thoughts about Hedonism. He begins to become open to all pleasures, moral or
immoral.
Basil Hallward - The painter who became addicted to Dorian's beauty. Dorian
helps Basil to see his artistic potential. The portrait of Dorian becomes Basil's
best work.
Lord Henry Harry Wotton - The nobleman who was Basil's friend at the
beginning of the book. Only later is he impressed by Dorian's beauty and purity.
Quite a ready answer. Lord Henry is seen as an interpretation of Victorian
culture at the end of the century. He has adopted hedonism. He pulls Dorian
into his own worldview. The more Dorian tries to look like him, the more he
starts to degenerate.
Other characters:
Sybil Vane - The rather talented, beautiful, but extremely poor actress with
whom Dorian fell in love. Her love for Dorian destroys her acting ability due to
inability to enjoy portraying fictional love while learning about love in real life.
When she realizes that Dorian no longer loves her, she commits suicide.
James Vane - Sybil's hungry-eyed older brother.
Alan Campbell - Chemist who used to be Dorian's good friend. When Dorian's
reputation begins to be questioned, he ends their friendship. He committed
suicide without revealing Dorian's secret to anyone.
Summary:
Dorian Gray is a high-class and quite handsome young man. Its flawless and
charming appearance impresses everyone. One of the people who was
influenced by the beauty of Dorian Gray is a painter named Basil Hallward. The
painter is so impressed by Dorian's appearance that he wants to keep Dorian
close to him at all times. He mentions Dorian as “my inspiration”. He even made
a portrait of Dorian that is quite close to the truth. One of the days when Basil
doesn’t let Dorian leave his side, Dorian meets Lord Henry, who is Basil's close
friend. Lord Henry embraced hedonism and based his life solely on beauty,
youth, pleasure and pleasure. He believes that everything else is a scam. Lord
Henry told Dorian that youth is the most precious thing to have, one day you
can't laugh when wrinkled, beauty is the greatest of miracles, but time is
fighting Dorian's beauty, one day he will lose his beauty and suffer a lot. Dorian
was so impressed by Lord Henry's words that when he went home, he stood in
front of the impeccably beautiful portrait and prayed. Although he has passed
years of defying time without compromising his youth at all, he wished to
remain the same beauty, to be haunted by all the effects of time, all the
ugliness that awaits him, only the portrait.
Dorian's wish will be granted. Now the only thing that time and ugly, bad
feelings in a person can influence is the portrait of Dorian Gray. Dorian,
unaware of what will happen to him, falls in love with a young girl named Sibly
Vane in the heat of youth. The young girl is also attached to Dorian with an
indescribable love. Sibly is a theater actress who is at the beginning of her
career. Despite her young age, she is able to influence those who watch her on
stage. Dorian takes his friends Basil and Lord Henry to the theater to watch the
young girl. A young girl cannot give credit for the role she plays with the
influence of love in her. She even exhibits a disgraceful game. Dorian, who is a
disgrace to his friends, gets very angry with the young girl and leaves her
backstage and leaves the theater building.
Dorian, who left the young girl under the influence of Lord Henry, wakes up and
sees Lord Henry again. Lord Henry has bad news: “Sibly Vane has killed herself.”
Dorian, far from being upset, was angry at the young girl. He didn’t even want
to remember the poor girl, whom he had left under suspicion and because of
her weakness. Dorian sensed a change in the picture while all this was
happening. The painting has become ugly and there is almost a devilishness in
the look of the portrait. Although Dorian initially thought he was losing his
mind, he considered himself lucky that his wish was granted. Thinking that he
should hide the painting, he carried the painting with a blanket over it to that
gloomy room where his grandfather had almost imprisoned him. When Basil
visits Dorian, who he expected to be sad, he is very surprised at the person this
innocent and kind-hearted boy has turned into when he first got to know him.
Dorian talks about Sibly without the slightest sadness, as if all this happened
years ago, not as if it happened two days ago. Basil, who has difficulty
recognizing the person in front of him, is very upset about the state of his
friend.
Since that day, Dorian has led a life full of evil in pursuit of pleasure and
pleasure. Although he has reached the age of 40, there are no signs of old age
on his face, but the portrait has become so terrible that it has become
impossible to look at, just like the ugliness of Dorian's heart's conscience.
One night when Basil visited Dorian, Dorian couldn't take it anymore. Both the
burden of this secret and the anger he feels towards Basil, the painter of the
portrait, whom he sees as the reason why everything started, made him want
to show his portrait to Basil and confront him. Basil was horrified by what he
saw and offered Dorian to pray and pray together for God to forgive him. Dorian
felt such anger inside that he plunged a knife into Basil's neck. Basil died there.
Dorian has arranged everything without leaving any traces behind. Through
threats, his chemist friend Alan Campbell had the body disposed of. Then the
poor man took his own life. While all this is happening, the portrait is getting
uglier and a red stain appears on the portrait after the murder.
While Dorian continues his life, Sibly's brother is after him. He is saved from the
hands of this man who has sworn to avenge his brother thanks to his young
face, but the man is told that Dorian “stayed young by selling his soul to the
devil”. Dorian is very nervous at any moment. One day, while attending a
hunting ceremony, a man is shot while shooting at a rabbit; the man is Sibl's
brother, who is after Dorian. Dorian thinks that life has given him his freedom
again and decides to become a good person. He leaves after the girl who is still
a child when they decide to run away. Lord Henry, on the other hand, says that
this is not about kindness, but only about Dorian's arrogance. Dorian thinks he
is doing a favor, and when he goes home, he walks across the portrait, but
instead of getting better in the portrait, he sees that the red stain is getting
bigger. He takes the knife and stabs her in the heart. When the servants enter
the room, they encounter Dorian's flawless portrait. And on the floor there is
an old terrible-looking man lying.

My opinions about this book:

The book has a fascinating feature with both its psychological elements and its
literary value, which left a great impression on me. I would love to have the
chance to chat with Oscar Wilde about the book, because the idea of chatting
with someone who has such a sharp grasp of the state of being a human being
in the face of worldly pleasures and situations excites me tremendously. Dorian
has sometimes chosen to act pleasure-oriented, as we have been in situations.
Unlike us; Dorian carries all the ugliness and evil not in and on his body, but on
a portrait of him. Instead of wearing out Dorian, the conscientious burden of
his evil deeds wears out a portrait hanging on the wall. With this book, we are
told in a chilling way what the world will be like if a person's desire for eternal
life and youth is realized without the distortions in the conscience and body.
Grammar Reference:
A. Put a relative pronoun who, whom, whose, which or that into these
sentences (if necessary).

1. We don’t know the man whom lives here.

2. The boy, who book is so dirty, must do this work again.
3. Have you seen the book which i left on this table?
4. The policeman is looking for the man whom left his car in the street.
5. I gave him the book which i was reading.