• What are you told of Dorian's lifestyle?

Dorian Gray lives a life of luxury. He opens his beautiful house once or twice every month during the winter, so his house is full of wonderful things like a museum. When he hosts his guests, he has the best musicians to entertain them; the food and the decoration of his table during the dinner are opulent and every people dream to be invited to these party. Dorian is a man of grace and perfect manners, he dresses in a fashion way so everybody try to imitate him.

• What is for him the greatest of arts?
  

For Dorian Gray the greatest art is Life itself, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation. So Dorian Gray exalts human senses.

• Why is Dorian Gray an ideal for educated young man? Why is being consulted on matters of fashion not enough for Dorian?

Dorian is an ideal for educated young man because he is the true realization of a type of which they had often dreamed at the major school they frequented; Dorian is the combination of the real culture of the scholar with all the grace and distinction and perfect manner of a citizen of the world. But being consulted on matters of fashion is not enough for Dorian because he wants to become most famous or an idol for the London of his own day.

• What is the common attitude to "the worship of the senses" and what has this attitude caused?

The common attitude to "the worship of the senses" is of criticism because e men feels a natural instinct of terror toward passions and sensations. This causes an ignorance of the human senses for people who try to submits them.

• What are the principles of Dorian's "new Hedonism"?

The principles of Dorian's "new Hedonism" are: to recreate life, to save it from the hardness of judgements toward passions and feelings and to teach man to concentrate himself upon the moments of a life that is itself a moment.

INTERPRETATION

• What kind of narrator does Wild use in his novel? Do you feel his presence?

Oscar Wild uses a third person omniscient narrator; the reader can feel his presence.

• Where in the last paragraph does Wilde quote Pater?

Wilde quote Pater in line 65 when he writes: "Its aim, indeed, was to be experience itself, and not the fruits of experience, sweet or bitter as they might be".

• What does the historian Arnold Hauser underline about the 1880s in the following paragraph?

The historian Arnold Hauser underline about the 1880s the exaggerated desire to enjoy life and senses, to exalt beauty and passions.

• Could this sort of fin-de-siècle hedonism be a suitable term for the younger generation of your age?

I think that this sort of fin-de-siècle hedonism can be suitable for the younger generation of all the ages because it is natural to guys to desire unforgettable experiences and to desire amusement.

• Considering the ending of the novel, how can this story be interpreted?

This story can be interpreted as a criticism of superficial hedonism and self-love.