Dorian Gray
- Created by: Millie Kilbride
- Created on: 17-03-14 20:55
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- Dorian Gray
- Late Victorian Era
- Development in science
- Christianity being questioned
- Homosexuality is not condoned
- Shift in content
- Society is changing partly because of the industrial revolution
- Role of women changing ultimately leads to suffragism
- Development in science
- Characterisation
- Based on visual imagery
- Focus on the aesthetics
- Third person narration. This allows us to know much more about the thoughts and motivations of the characters
- Omniscient
- Narcissistic
- Romance with Sybil. It was love at first sight in a youthful and exuberant way
- Niaive
- Dorian is exuberant and enthusiastic initially, similarly to how Sybil is also wildly impressed "prince"
- Dorian tires and bores of her after Henry comments negatively
- Shows how fickle, transient and short-lived Dorian is. COMPARE this to Jed's deeply embedded love of both Joe and God
- Based on visual imagery
- Late Victorian Era
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