Comprehension:

1. Dorian Gray during the winter opened sometimes his house to have the most celebrated musicians and his guests. In these days Dorian prepared meals with delicacy and he showed his elegance in the table. In fashionable, social life was normal created events.

2. Dorian Gray considered the greatest art the Life itself. Dorian Gray was an ideal for educated young man because he was always perfect in his manners, behavior, dress and he was a pleasant man. He was consulted because he was a pleasant man and all people looked at him as a style icon, for his glamour and education.

3. Dorian tried to find in the sense, the highest realization, but men are scared by the passions and emotions that seem o be more strong in confront of their.

4. The principles were that life were recreated and saved from the harsh and ugly Puritanism. The bases of “New Hedonism” were that no theories and limitations but experienced all the passions and moments.

Interpretation

1. The narrator is external. I feel his presence but in the way of telling the story.

2. In the final sentence of the passage is expressed that life is a moment, too fast and people should live every single moment.

3. Wilde quoted Pater because he expressed the idea of life’s rapidity.

4. The historian Arnold Hauser underlined the decline of bourgeoisie style in the younger generation, that assumed a antisocial and immoral attitudes.

5. It isn’t suitable for the younger generation of our age because there is a different way to face the life.

6. A similitary is the division between bad and good part of individual and the passion

7. Dorian Gray decided to destroy his portrait and he died. He understood that he hadn’t experienced every single year of his life but his portrait.

In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the character of Dr. Jekyll revealed in a letter, written before die, his double personality.