Dorian Gray Picture In The Attic

And while basil is busy with the painting he introduces dorian to lord henry wotton an old oxford friend.

Dorian gray picture in the attic.

Instead of skeletons in his closet dorian has a painting in his attic. He calls for victor his servant who enters the room. For most of this chapter dorian is concerned with moving the portrait to an attic room where it will be safely hidden. The picture of dorian gray.

When dorian enters the attic room he detects a horrible smell. The book is set in 19th century england and focuses on a young man called dorian gray. Soon after this he treats a young woman cruelly and then notices that his portrait seems to look meaner than it used to. Lord henry keeps dorian company and advises dorian to appreciate his youth and beauty.

Eventually he cannot endure the portrait and hides it in the attic. Some critics have interpreted the hidden painting as a metaphor for sexuality dorian keeps his shame and guilt about his homosexual tendencies in the closet as it were. The picture of dorian gray begins on a beautiful summer day in victorian england where lord henry wotton an opinionated man is observing the sensitive artist basil hallward painting the portrait of dorian gray a handsome young man who is basil s ultimate muse. However there is no sign of basil howard.

In victorian london a beautiful young man is given a portrait of himself by an admiring artist. The scientist curtly states that he has done what he was asked to do and hopes never to see dorian again. Picture of do ri an gray the ˌpɪktʃər əv ˌdɔːriən ˈɡreɪ 1891 a novel by oscar wilde about a beautiful young man dorian gray who has a painting of himself that he keeps in the attic a room under the roof of his house. Gray unwittingly makes a faustian pact whereby his own youthful beauty remains unblemished while a portrait he hides in an attic shows the ravages visited on his face and body by his ugly.

Summary and analysis chapter 10. Dorian is waiting downstairs in the library when campbell enters pale but calm well after seven that evening.