Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Quicklet on The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (CliffNotes-like Summary and Analysis)
    Unavailable
    Quicklet on The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (CliffNotes-like Summary and Analysis)
    Unavailable
    Quicklet on The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (CliffNotes-like Summary and Analysis)
    Ebook63 pages46 minutes

    Quicklet on The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (CliffNotes-like Summary and Analysis)

    By Lacey Kohlmoos

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?

    If you could drink, smoke, and eat as much as you wanted and see no change in your appearance, would you indulge? If you could cheat, steal, and even murder without any consequences, would you do it? What would you sacrifice for eternal youth and beauty? Is your soul too much of a price to pay?

    With The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde weaves a tale of love, betrayal, murder, and revenge that delves into all these questions and more. When Dorian sees a portrait of himself and becomes aware of his own intense youth and beauty, he proclaims that he would give anything to preserve his looks and let the portrait grow old instead. This simple wish uttered in a moment of passion changes his life forever. As the portrait grows old over time and bears the marks of Dorian’s bad habits and cruelty, his innocent and youthful face never changes. As he sets out on a mission to experience every type of pleasure that the world has to offer, he discovers that he can get away with anything. Even murder.

    The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde’s only novel. When it was first released, its homoerotic undertones and harsh criticism of strict Victorian morality made it wildly controversial. The novel was even used as evidence against Wilde when he was tried for “gross indecency.” Today it is considered classic literature and often read in high school and college English classes. The book’s themes, as well as the author himself, continue to intrigue readers. Wilde challenges people to look at the way they live their lives and question their happiness. Are they freely pursuing happiness or constricting their personal growth by repressing their desires?

    Although written over 100 years ago, the story’s intrigue still holds up and even manages to deliver quite a few shocking moments. As Dorian plunges into the grimy underworld of Victorian London, he does things that many people would condemn in public while secretly wishing that they could do the same. Perhaps this is why The Picture of Dorian Gray has been adapted into numerous movies. There is nothing sweeter than forbidden fruit.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHyperink
    Release dateJul 26, 2012
    ISBN9781614645252
    Unavailable
    Quicklet on The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (CliffNotes-like Summary and Analysis)

    Related to Quicklet on The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (CliffNotes-like Summary and Analysis)

    Related ebooks

    Literary Criticism For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      James Baldwin, Restored

      Feb 15, 2019

      James Baldwin, Restored
      9 min read

    • Article

      Television

      Mar 8, 2023

      ‘Why do we still idolise this mixed-up mess of contradictions?' the poor viewers are asked at the start of Becoming Frida Kahlo (BBC2). ‘And why can't we take our eyes off her?' What follows are three hour-long episodes composed of footage of the fam

      3 min read

    • Article

      Historical Fiction

      Dec 28, 2022

      Historical Fiction
      2 min read

    • Article

      OUT SIDE the LINES

      Jan 26, 2021

      OUT SIDE the LINES
      13 min read

    • Article

      10 Literary Diss Tracks

      Apr 9, 2018

      10 Literary Diss Tracks
      11 min read

    • Article

      Better Books

      Aug 20, 2020

      by Robert Wainwright, $32.99 Enid was the dazzling eldest daughter of the well-to-do Lindeman family, from the Hunter Valley wine fortune. She was married off in January 1913, after just turning 21, to a wealthy American, Roderick Cameron, who was tw

      2 min read

    • Article

      I Used to Live Here: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys

      May 4, 2022

      Collins £22 Jean Rhys (1890-1979) was born in Dominica to a white Creole mother who was, by her daughter’s account, hard and cruel. ‘I’ve done my best, ’ her mother told her after yet another whipping. ‘You’ll never be like other people.’ Her father,

      3 min read

    • Article

      Asylum Seeker To Fashion Maven

      Oct 13, 2022

      A Visible Man Edward Enninful/Bloomsbury The memoir from Edward Enninful OBE, the ground-breaking, new-generation editor-in-chief of British Vogue is open-hearted and arrestingly detailed. Written to inspire others to dream big, work hard and draw st

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Equality of Shame: On ‘The Heart’s Invisible Furies’ by John Boyne

      Aug 30, 2017

      With intricate, narrative precision, The Heart’s Invisible Furies cuts to the heart of what family is, how it is chosen, and how it endures. The post The Equality of Shame: On ‘The Heart’s Invisible Furies’ by John Boyne appeared fi

      4 min read

    • Article

      Devil’s Advocate

      Oct 12, 2023

      Why is it that the wellspoken British baddie has become such a stock character in Hollywood movies? (Alan Rickman in Die Hard; Ian Holm in Alien; George Sanders voicing Shere Khan in The Jungle Book; Peter Cushing, Ian McDiarmid and Christopher Lee i

      2 min read

    • Article

      Joan DIDION

      May 12, 2021

      Joan DIDION
      6 min read

    • Article

      Tilda SWINTON

      Dec 9, 2020

      Tilda SWINTON
      5 min read

    • Article

      Hollywood Bard, Muse And Reveler Eve Babitz Dies At 78

      Dec 18, 2021

      With warmth and candor, Eve Babitz chronicled the excesses of her native world in the 1960s and 1970s and became a cult figure to generations of readers.

      4 min read

    Reviews for Quicklet on The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (CliffNotes-like Summary and Analysis)

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words