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The Picture of Dorian Gray Symbols and Motifs Worksheet The Picture of Dorian Gray Symbols and Motifs Worksheet SYMBOL – A literal object, person, place etc. that represents a figurative idea/concept/emotion. MOTIF – a recurring image or concept that reiterates an idea/concept/emotion. Read the information about each element (supplied below) and summarise the important points (and add your own) to fill in this table. Symbol/Motif What it Significance to our represents understanding of the novel E.g. The painting Beauty, vanity, The presence of the painting is a the passing of time constant reminder of the true result and conscience. of Dorian’s actions. It allows him to act without thought of the consequences and to only worry about his own pleasure, but he cannot hide from it forever. Eventually the painting’s mere existence comes to torture Dorian. Flowers The book The opium dens James Vane Red and white SOURCE 1: Course Hero The Painting By far the most important symbol in the novel is Basil's portrait of Dorian. The centrepiece of the plot, the portrait interacts with Dorian throughout the narrative. When Dorian does something immoral, the results show up on the painting, while Dorian's own face stays unmarked and beautiful. This painting is Basil's best work, but must, because of its magical power, remain unseen by everyone except Dorian. Basil and Henry saw the portrait when it was first complete. Though it is rarely seen, this picture looms symbolically and metaphorically over the entire book. The picture takes the Victorian ideal of art to its logical extreme. If art is useful because it teaches a moral lesson, how perfect must this painting be since it is an immediate barometer of ethical changes? Basil's final glimpse of his masterpiece occurs when he says that to know Dorian he must see his soul. This viewing proves to be the artist's undoing; his horrified reaction to the portrait leads Dorian to murder his friend. Flowers Though they are far less important than the picture, flowers appear throughout the book. The opening line mentions "the rich odour of roses," and it is to flowers that Dorian turns in Chapter 2 to relieve his soul after Henry awakens him to the power and brevity of beauty. Dorian buys or orders orchids at key moments, such as when he's blackmailing Alan Campbell into disposing of Basil's body for him. Flowers symbolize beauty and how briefly it lasts. Their fleeting beauty stands in stark contrast to the enduring ugliness that is captured in Dorian's portrait. The title character clings to something that is not meant to last, which brings inevitable repercussions. The Book In Chapter 10 just after Dorian hides his portrait and learns the results of Sibyl Vane's inquest, he reads the "yellow book" Henry sent him. This novel changes Dorian's life. He buys multiple copies, rereads it, and lives its philosophy. This book, which he carries with him wherever he goes, symbolizes several closely linked meanings. Most directly it represents Henry's influence over Dorian. Generally, "controversial French novels" were bound in yellow during this period, so this book represents the influence of French literature. These yellow bound books were considered sensational at best, and decadent and immoral at worst, promoting both sexual and philosophical deviance. Most specifically, this can be read as Joris-Karl Huysmans's À Rebours, a book of the decadent movement that Wilde read (and greatly admired) on his honeymoon. Once this book enters Dorian's life, he begins to live like he is part of the aesthetic movement. He is much more hedonistic. It also provides a means by which Dorian can practice Henry's belief about curing "the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul." https://www.coursehero.com/lit/The-Picture-of-Dorian-Gray/symbols/ SOURCE 2: SparkNotes The Opium Dens The opium dens, located in a remote and derelict section of London, represent the sordid state of Dorian’s mind. He flees to them at a crucial moment. After killing Basil, Dorian seeks to forget the awfulness of his crimes by losing consciousness in a drug-induced stupor. Although he has a canister of opium in his home, he leaves the safety of his neat and proper parlour to travel to the dark dens that reflect the degradation of his soul. James Vane James Vane is less a believable character than an embodiment of Dorian’s tortured conscience. As Sibyl’s brother, he is a rather flat caricature of the avenging relative. Still, Wilde saw him as essential to the story, adding his character during his revision of 1891. Appearing at the dock and later at Dorian’s country estate, James has an almost spectral quality. Like the ghost of Jacob Marley in Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, who warns Scrooge of the sins he will have to face, James appears with his face “like a white handkerchief” to goad Dorian into accepting responsibility for the crimes he has committed. The Yellow Book Lord Henry gives Dorian a copy of the yellow book as a gift. Although he never gives the title, Wilde describes the book as a French novel that charts the outrageous experiences of its pleasure-seeking protagonist (we can fairly assume that the book in question is Joris-Karl Huysman’s decadent nineteenth-century novel À Rebours, translated as “Against the Grain” or “Against Nature”). The book becomes like holy scripture to Dorian, who buys nearly a dozen copies and bases his life and actions on it. The book represents the profound and damaging influence that art can have over an individual and serves as a warning to those who would surrender themselves so completely to such an influence The Colour White Interestingly, Dorian’s trajectory from figure of innocence to figure of degradation can be charted by Wilde’s use of the colour white. White usually connotes innocence and blankness, as it does when Dorian is first introduced. It is, in fact, “the white purity” of Dorian’s boyhood that Lord Henry finds so captivating. Basil invokes whiteness when he learns that Dorian has sacrificed his innocence, and, as the artist stares in horror at the ruined portrait, he quotes a biblical verse from the Book of Isaiah: “Though your sins be as scarlet, yet I will make them as white as snow.” But the days of Dorian’s innocence are over. It is a quality he now eschews, and, tellingly, when he orders flowers, he demands “as few white ones as possible.” https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/doriangray/symbols/ https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/doriangray/motifs/ SOURCE 3: Lit Charts White and Red Colours symbolic of purity and innocence and sin and gore populate the story at crucial moments. One of the first noticeable examples is when Sybil’s Vane’s body is described as “little” and “white”, emphasizing her ruined purity. Dorian’s devolvement into a monstrous, unnatural figure is stained with bloody colours. Increasingly, as we move towards the climax of the novel, redness seems to gather until Dorian starts to see blood-like marks on his portrait. These colour symbols create a visual surface in the text, showing us clearly the difference between right and wrong and giving the action a kind of painted effect. The Painting The painting itself is an overarching, ever-present symbol in The Picture of Dorian Gray, not just in the text but to nearly all of its characters. Though physically it is nothing more than a two- dimensional object, it becomes the main antagonist of their lives and has such far-reaching and powerful influences that it seems almost to be more alive than Dorian himself. It represents beauty, mortality, time, and art, all the major themes of the book, and its degradation literally presents to us the dangers inherent in these ideas. Parfitt, Georgina. "The Picture of Dorian Gray Symbols." LitCharts. LitCharts LLC, 17 Sep 2013. Web. 17 Jun 2020. https://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-picture-of-dorian-gray/symbols .
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