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CHAPTER 3INTRODUCTION PAGE 46
Henry arrives at his aunt – ‘’late as usual Harry” –
Luncheon at lady Agatha – high Victorian society shows he doesn’t care – seen before in his character
PAGE 44
Next couple paragraphs is where we look for satire
‘’So that was the story of Dorian Gray's parentage. We get insight to their attitude towards Americans
Crudely as it had been told to him, it had yet stirred
him by its suggestion of a strange, almost modern PAGE 48/ 49
romance. A beautiful woman risking everything for a Colonial attitudes – satire about their fashion
mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut We get a comment from Lady Agatha - ‘’Oh! Harry, I
am quite vexed with you. Why do you try to
short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of
persuade our nice Dorian Gray to give up East End? I
voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain. The
assure you he would be quite invaluable. They would
mother snatched away by death, the boy left to
love his playing’’
solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man’’ Henrys response ‘’I want him to play to me’’ – shows
– summary of the background of Dorians life – gives how he wants to be Dorians muse
us insight to why he behaves the way that he does ‘’but they are so unhappy in Whitechapel’’ – worst
part of the poorest area – disease and poverty – the
Henrys reaction – we see the way that he objectifies
dregs of society – he see the contrast between Lady
Dorian – his unwillingness to connect with other
Agatha philanthropy and the rest of Victorian society
people – Dorian only being a character of a romance – NB is important – because Dorian goes to the opium
Get an insight into the grandfather who raises Dorian chapel in Blue fields – aristocrats despise the people
– he was deprived of love as a boy – only had a there
Henrys response ‘’I can sympathise with everything
grandfather that resented him because of his father –
except suffering’’ he is a representative of a typical
we see that when Dorian first hides the painting away
Victorian aristocrat attitude with his dismissal of the
PAGE 45 poor and thus influences Dorian – ironic as Dorian
becomes something like them as the novel progresses
‘’Talking to him was like playing upon an exquisite
violin. He answered to every touch and thrill of the PAGE 50/51
bow.... There was something terribly enthralling in Duchess has come in - we get on of Henry’s epigram
the exercise of influence. No other activity was like ‘’to get back ones youth, one has merely to repeat
it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and ones follies’’ he says that one must pursue
let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own HEDONISM – go back to where you made mistakes
intellectual views echoed back to one with all the and did things spontaneously and repeat them
added music of passion and youth’’ - you can see the Lady Agatha disagrees with his views, but cant help be
manipulator in Henry – Dorian becomes a piece of art enchanted – Henry plays with the fact that he has a
to him – he recognizes the vulnerability in him the captive audience
moment he set eyes on Dorian – from that moment ‘’that is one of the great secrets of life. Nowadays
he started the shaping Dorian – he will become an most people die of a sort of creeping common sense
icon because henry will make him that icon ‘’he could and discover when it is too late that the only things
be a titan or a toy’’ one never regrets are ones mistakes’’ – they respond
with a laugh
‘’and basil? From a physiological point of view, how Henry then has a long philosophical speech – FOCUS
interesting he was” – Henry is fascinated that Dorian ON DORIANS REACTION
has had such a large impact on Basil ‘’He felt that the eyes of Dorian Gray were fixed on
him and the consciousness that amongst his
‘’he would try to be to Dorian Gray what, without audience there was one whose temperament he
knowing it, the lad was to the painter, who has wished to fascinate’’
fashioned the wonderful portrait” – henry wants to ‘’Dorian never took his gaze off of him, but sat like
become Dorian Gray’s muse and inspire Dorian to one under his spell, smiles chasing each other over
greater works of hedonism – Dorian is a piece of clay his lips, and wonder growing grave in his darkening
being moulded eyes’’ – this is what motivates Henry on carrying on –
Dorian hangs on his every word – he has drawn Dorian
in – he will believe every word that he tells him
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