OSCAR WILDE

”THE PICTURE OF
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DORIAN GRAY»
Prepare:Iovenko Margarita
 📚 About what the book? 📚
• It is one of the most famous novels of world literature, which was published in 1891 and
caused a scandal in English society. Criticism denounced it as an immoral work, yet
ordinary readers of the novel were received enthusiastically. It raises eternal questions of
humanity - about the meaning of life, about responsibility for what has been done, about
the greatness of the beauty, about the meaning of love and the destroying power of sin.
This immortal work by Oscar Wilde has been screened more than 25 times.
 📚 Book contents 📚
• Action is unfolding in England. The main character is an incredibly beautiful
young man Dorian Gray. Artist Basil once paints his portrait. Dorian in the artist
's workshop gets acquainted with Lord Henry, who immediately begins to exert
his influence on him. Looking at the finished portrait, Dorian makes an
incredible wish, which in the future will be greatly regretted. The self-loved
Dorian says aloud: If the portrait had changed, and I could always remain as it
is!
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• Dorian is interested in theatre, and therefore meets there the actress in whom
she falls in love, or rather - in her skill as an actress. The girl falls in love with the
guy and loses her gift because of love. That 's when Dorian rejects her,
abandoning her and love. That 's where it starts. The girl ends up suicide. And
then a nasty wrinkle appears on Dorian 's portrait, painted by Basil, which
makes the face - vicious and tough. But on the surface, Dorian Gray remains
beautiful and innocent.
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• Further, his heart is further tightened, and he starts doing things he never did. He tries everything he
can - in general, it is bad.
• His portrait ages for him and all the bad qualities are reflected in the portrait, not the names. And
all only because he once wished to be forever young and beautiful, and that the portrait would
age for him. One day, Dorian reaches his maximum.
• Besil, his buddy, finds a portrait and sees that one is just terrible. He begins to understand
everything, and therefore Dorian, afraid that he will tell
everything, simply kills his friend and therefore burns
his body so that there is no evidence.
📚 7 reasons to read ”The Picture of
Dorian Gray»
• 🌹 An interesting plot which course of events there is a wish to watch, it fascinating and
fascinating.

• 🌹 A good syllable of Oscar Wilde to read his work continuous pleasure. His ability to
convey the colors, mood and feelings of the characters is accurate and multifaceted
to admire.
• 🌹 Set of wise thoughts, phrases. Almost every statement - an aphorism. The novel can
be quoted infinitely that actively and is done everywhere.
• 🌹 The work is shrouded in mysticism and mystery. It forces the imagination to perceive
a little differently daily reality, attaching some magic significance to ordinary things.
• 🌹 The work is very instructive.
📚 What does the ”The Picture of
Dorian Gray»? 📚

• 🌺 At the beginning of the novel, Henry says about how youth is fine that nothing will be
compared to it, speaks also about its rapidity. And he is right. We will never be younger
than at this point. These words change the view of some things. You have to
appreciate youth, every moment of it and enjoy your life.
• 🌺 The work teaches anybody to trust, not to trust and not to create entirely to itself
authorities, always to think the head, to look at everything with his own eyes.

• 🌺 All of us know: it is worth being more careful with the desires, they are
accustomed to come true, and here this is illustrated very brightly.

• 🌺 To carefully choose to itself an environment, it strongly influences us.

• 🌺 Each act has the consequence and as a result of people pays for each choice.

• 🌺 Also how it is easily possible to spoil the soul is shown in the novel if not to resist all
temptations and sins.

• 🌺 Internal beauty is more important external, the author shows, once again
convincing us of this common truth.
 📚 Conclusions 📚

• After reading ”The Picture of Dorian Gray», it became sad only that the book was over.
This magnificent work will especially appeal to fans of Gothic novels, but will not leave
indifferent and other readers.