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DORIAN GRAY – CHAPTER NOTES AND REFERENCES TO WIDER READINGS
This chapter sets the tone of the novel
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The artist of the novel is Basil Hallward
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The intensity of his feelings for Dorian
Gray and the art that Dorian Gray inspires has to do with his sense of identity
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That is the seed of the novel
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Lord Henry is here for ironic relief and the production of aphorisms (short statements of truth) that
irony spawns
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He says, for instance, "It is only the
intellectually lost who ever argue
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" He
thinks of the luncheon he missed in lingering with Hallward
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Basil Hallward also has
his own aphoristic rules of life
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He never introduces people he likes to other people because he feels it
would be like giving them away
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The theme of this chapter is also one of the central themes of the
novel
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In the course of this chapter, he
is made self-aware
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He is prepared for this recognition by Lord Henry who, in the garden, urges him to spend
his youth on youthful pursuits, not on philanthropy, and warns him that his youth is his best gift
and that it won’t last
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At the lunch, Lord Henry charms everyone present with his Hedonistic philosophy, even those who
are staunch supporters of philanthropy
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The plan works
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He will stand up Basil Hallward, with whom he has an appointment
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For many years, England had dominated the world, invading countries
like India, Africa, and China (not to mention America and Ireland) and taking over, establishing
colonial regimes and enslaving the people of those lands or making subordinates of them
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Colonized people began
successfully to revolt and England began pulling out of these other lands
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Therefore, it needed
a moral justification for colonizing other lands
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The English were doing these colonized people a favor by bringing them the
light of a superior civilization, including a superior religion
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The colonizers realized it was
important to help those at home as well as "help" those abroad- Hence, the philanthropic societies
of the late nineteenth century
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The poor remained poor and
the rich didn’t feel quite as guilty
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Dorian has avoided Basil Hallward and has become a protégé of Lord Henry, quoting him
in everything and looking to him for guidance on all his decisions
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He is
setting up Dorian Gray with what he thinks of as premature knowledge, so that Dorian will live his
youth in the full knowledge that it is fading daily
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He isn’t jealous of Dorian’s new passion for Sibyl Vane
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He regards himself as something of a social scientist
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This chapter takes the reader to an entirely different social scene
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It serves
to humanize Sibyl for the reader by showing her in her roles as daughter and sister
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She knows nothing of the position which her social class puts her
in relation to Dorian Gray
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For her brother, she will be used
and discarded by a rich man
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The chapter closes with the revelation that James and Sibyl’s
father was an aristocrat himself and that their parents never married
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Basil seems out of the loop of Dorian’s affections almost
completely
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The engagement to Sibyl seems to be Dorian’s last hope of
regaining the innocence of youth which he has lost to Lord Henry’s theories
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Discuss the relationship between Basil and Dorian
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Analyze the Gothic elements in The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Discuss the role of Sibyl Vane in the novel
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Discuss the parallels between Dorian’s story and the Faust legend
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Why does Dorian decide to destroy the painting at the end of the novel?

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What is their relationship to
one another? To Dorian?

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Lord Henry
-He thinks the "aim of life is self development
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They clothe poor people and let their own souls starve
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Terror of God is the secret of religion and terror of society
is the basis of morals
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He urges
Dorian not to run from his youthful fears
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