Dorian Gray

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Personality

Role

  • Immature - awareness of the power he holds over Basil who loves him: "Now and then... he seems to take a real delight in giving me pain".
  • Physically beautiful and charming.
  • Feels pity (e.g. for Alan Campbell) but never empathy.
  • Self-centred. Thinks about how Sybil's art makes him feel ratehr than her achievements: "the world would have worshipped you, and you would have borne my name".
  • Seemingly limitless wealth
  • Eponymous character.
  • Role of the Faust.
  • 'Sold his soul to the Devil'

Development (Growth & change)

Other information              

  • When we first see him Dorian is very young, even for his age.
  • Dorian feels terror but not remorse at the crimes he has committed.
  • Anti-Semitic - engages in a power struggle with "the Jew" who manages Sybil's work.
  • Story is often likened to the Fall. However, Adam and Eve fell into knowledge and understanding, whereas Dorian's fall is into the knowledge of his own power.

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