Only Dull People are Brilliant at Breakfast
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
The portrait ages; the man does not.
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A young man's portrait bears the changes that his own appearance escapes. Wilde uses Dorian's pursuit of pleasure and beauty to examine influence, conscience, and moral consequences.
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Basil Hallward paints a portrait of the young Dorian Gray, and Lord Henry Wotton teaches him to value beauty and sensation above everything else. Dorian wishes the picture would age in his place, and it does, recording every cruelty while his own face stays untouched.
Wilde’s only novel caused a scandal in 1890 and is still the sharpest fictional treatment of aestheticism, carried by Lord Henry’s epigrams, which are funny for a long time before they turn out to be dangerous.
- How Lord Henry’s epigrams work as seduction, and where the wit stops being harmless.
- What the portrait records, and why Wilde makes conscience a physical object.
- The difference between Basil’s admiration and Lord Henry’s influence on Dorian.
- How Wilde treats aestheticism as both genuinely attractive and genuinely corrosive.
- Why the novel was thought scandalous in 1890, and what was cut from the first version.
- How the ending settles the argument the book has been running throughout.
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- Author
- Oscar Wilde
- Publisher
- Lexicon Publishing
- Language
- English
- Format
- Paperback
Oscar Wilde was an Irish playwright, novelist, and poet known for his wit and flamboyant style. He is a leading figure in the Aesthetic movement and wrote works such as The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Salome. His genres include comedy, tragedy, and social satire.
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