Sybil Vane

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Personality

Role
  • Sees the role of art and imagination as that of making life bearable.
  • Young actress.
  • 'Prince Charming' fantasy of love for Dorian.
  • Her love for Dorian opens up a new stage of personal growth with her bad performance.
  • Innocent girl destroyed by aristocratic seducer.
  • Dorian's first love.
  • Her suicide is a recognition that she has lost both love and art and there is nothing left.

Development (Growth & change)

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  • Takes for granted that love means marriage between those who love equally.
  • Love takes her talent. Loss of love denies her an outlet for her new consciousness.
  • Melodrama acted by her mother.
  • Wilde claimed he had taken the plot (about an aristocratic seducer and a poor young girl) from 'The Family Herald'.

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