The sequence that I'm going to analyze is taken from The Picture of Dorian Gray written by Oscar Wilde in 1890. it is the end of the novel.
Dorian comes to realize that his beauty had just been vanity and nothing more. He longs for the innocence of his youth. He returns to his home and after looking in the mirror smashes the mirror. The living death of his soul troubled him. He pulls the cover off of his picture intent on turning over a new life. The thing in the picture looks at him. It is gruesome. It is holding a knife that drips blood. A cry and crash is heard by the servants. When the policeman and the servants enter the room they see a youthful beautiful picture of Dorian on the wall. On the floor lies a dead man shriveled, in evening dress. He has a knife embedded in his heart. They did not know it was Dorian until they identify the rings on the man.
Dorian had killed the artist who created the portrait. The portrait was the symbol of his conscience so he cannot stand it. He couldn't bear his conscience.
The image is not the essence: if you raise the past, it comes out in the present.
Thanks to gentlemen an external perspective in the outside of the house is given
The use of image of knife reminds to Shakespeare's Macbeth.
There is an atmosphere of mystery: the idea of the contrast is prepared. There is the contrast between dark and light - innocence and evil, that reminds to gothic novels
The narrator is a third person omniscient narrator. The technique used is the technique of telling.
It is used the language of sense impressions. There is an alliterative use of language. There are also some onomatopoeia, like crash that implies suffering
The word "visage" is usually used for faces of sculptures.
Sequences at simple past give likeness.