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EZambon - 5B. From The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood to the Anti-Victorian Reaction - D.Gray's last section analysis
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Up to 5B. From The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood to the Anti-Victorian Reaction. Walter Pater - Oscar Wilde - Thomas Hardy
The extract is the final event in story line of Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.
In the first sequence is presented Dorian and his picture, his alter ego and mirror of his past guilty. Through a 3rd person omniscient narrator who speaks to the reader and the narrative technique of showing, the author explicits the problem between Dorian and his conscience. The function of this sequence is focused on Dorian's hate for himself and the problem of conscience which would be deepened in the first three decades of nineteenth century.
In the second sequence the narrator focuses the reader attention on how the world sees Dorian and his house. Mr. Wilde adopts the telling technique and an onomatopoeic uses of language. Through this technique choices the reader has the impression to hear the same sound that servants hear. The use of adjective "great" underlines how the world consider Dorian an example that must be imitate. Mr. Wilde presents also the binomial of innocence and guilty by the chromatic contrast.
In the first sequence is presented Dorian and his picture, his alter ego and mirror of his past guilty. Through a 3rd person omniscient narrator who speaks to the reader and the narrative technique of showing, the author explicits the problem between Dorian and his conscience. The function of this sequence is focused on Dorian's hate for himself and the problem of conscience which would be deepened in the first three decades of nineteenth century.
In the second sequence the narrator focuses the reader attention on how the world sees Dorian and his house. Mr. Wilde adopts the telling technique and an onomatopoeic uses of language. Through this technique choices the reader has the impression to hear the same sound that servants hear. The use of adjective "great" underlines how the world consider Dorian an example that must be imitate. Mr. Wilde presents also the binomial of innocence and guilty by the chromatic contrast.
In the last sequence the narrative technique is telling by the which the narrator brings the reader to know the end of the story. The servants recognize the dead man as Dorian only because he has his ring, the reader understands how the human features as beauty and youth are ephemerals: only a portrait can imprison them.