EXERCISE

1.1 Lord Henry values most of all in life the beauty of life.

1.2 He exhorts Dorian to live every moment of his life deeply.

2.1 Dorian was stirred by Lord Henry's words. He was afraid of losing his beauty represented on the picture. He doesn't want a wrinkled and withered face and dim eyes.

2.2 He wishes to remain handsome forever, and the picture to become older instead of him.

2.3  Lord Henry's philosophy highlights beauty as the perfection of everything. The picture represents eternal beauty because time will not change it. For this reason he wants to own it.

•1.1   He was killed by Dorian Gray.

•1.2   Dorian destroys the picture, but in it lives his soul. When he hits the picture he dies, while the picture remains intact.

2.1 Dorian wanted to destroy the picture to erase the prove of his guilt. The consequence is that he dies.

2.3  I think the characters in the text respect the person of Dorian Gray, and they are not afraid of him.

2.4.  I think that the writer doesn't judge Dorian Gray, in line to the Aesthetic principles.