The Picture of Dorian Gray book review

The Picture of Dorian Gray book review

The author of the book ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray,’ Oscar Wilde, follows all the steps of the narrative structure in every chapter of his narrative hence masking th novel t be very credible. The novel is set during the nineteenth century in London, England . from the understanding of the story, the setting of the book is not based on fiction basis since the narration is of real-world place I,e London England. Besides, the author has attained credibility in his setting by use of the fact-based on the lives of Dorian i.e., by li9ving on the upper west side where he lived a wealthy, pleasure, and luxurious experience. The entire setting of this novel, therefore, holds greater importance based on narrative writing since, the place where Dorian is living, he can quickly move between the major parts of London i.e., both the frail and wealthy West End.

While in the West End, especially at the district of super ritzy Mayfair, Dorian becomes capable of establishing his home through symphony hones, theatres, and various clubs of the gentlemen. At the dock within East End, Dorian, who can be considered as a disguised person, steals through grotesque for the occasional disgusted elbows characterized by different and several characters with destroyed lives. The two sides depicted from the novel directly represent the two sides of Dorian. On the hands of the West End, he is cultured aristocrat, fashionable, and giant gentleman with c celebrity. E enjoys every aspect of civilization art forms to the fullest point, hence enabling him to refine his appetite ultimately. On the other side, he is skulking, creepy, and unambiguous evil spectator on the other side of the world i. in the East End. Through this action of double-sided, the main aim of the author is to create a double setting specifically for the double life vividly. Besides, the book has also attained the following steps of narrative structure based on the climax, resolution/denouement, exposition, rising and following actions, as explained below.

The narration reaches its climax in the following different ways; first, during the turning point where the conflicts completely resolve itself without consideration of the situation and the possible outcome, secondly, during the most and the exciting series of events that occurred through the main character. Based on the first definition from The Picture of Dorian Gray, Climax occurs when the main character, Dorian, first notices the portrait change just after Sybil Vanes’ death (Wilde, 179). During the occasion, Dorian realizes that he is genuinely within the swamp of evil. Besides, the second definition shows that the occurrence of climax from the novel is when the main character kills himself instead of shooting the portraits. In other words, the climax point becomes visible when Dorian is so nefarious hence killing Basil, the best friend at the final stage of corruption. After committing such sin, he assumed to be innocent about it as e blackmail Lord Henry.

The author attains the rising action in the following different aspects. Dorian Gray meets with Hallward Basil in aunt’s home. At this point, Dorian experiences various portraits hence making Baasil pant him as a figure of myths. Basil, therefore, finally paints the value based on the authentic characters of Dorian as he believes that the picture would re-grab too much of himself (Wilde 132). Dorian is reluctantly introduced to Lord Henry, who believes that the portrait is based ion the masterpiece made by Basil. Lord Henry, therefore, upsets Dorian by giving a concentration and much information on how brief youth and beauty are. The information received makes Dorian to many curses his portrait while wishing to be young forever in his life. Basil gives Dorian the picture besides experiencing the growing influence of Lord Henry. He then dedicates his life to pursuit pleasure, which made him fall in love with Vane Sibyl. They both fall in love with each other, as the lady considers Dorian to be the prince charm of her life. Before her brother lives for his life at sea, he tried to worn Vane against the relationship. With much excitement, Dorian openly tells HJenry and Basil concerning the love he has for Sibly as they watch the performance of Sibly at the stage. The performance action became very horrible hence making Dorian change his mind and cruelly break the engagement. The work made Sibly kill herself as Dorian was required by Lord Henry to look upon the death of Sibly( Wilde, 99). It can be concluded that the rising action of the novel occurs at the time when Dorian starts to change and honestly think much concerning his life, inconsiderate, and turn mean. He decided to be very secretive from known friends, hence making it hard for the friend s to stop any form of action that he would like to perform.

Falling action from the novel occurs when the main character moves to the opium for the purpose of relieving the guilt and stress, which has resulted from the killing of Basil (Wilde, 216). James Vane then hunts him down though he manages to escape by showing his young and never aging face while claiming that he is too young to commit such action (Wilde, 210). Besides, another aspect of falling action is when James Vane caught Dorian while operating on the dark way of an alley.

The author obtains a resolution style towards the ending of the novel. It can be realized that Dorian gray stabs the portrait towards the ending of the book. The action makes Dorian to finally kill himself due to t the existing mysterious bond between him and the picture he stabbed (Wilde, 253). Resolution can, therefore, be depicted at this point when Dorian commits suicide by stabbing the portrait, which was drawn by Basil, which letter changed living Dorian the same way.

Exposition is attained when Basil concentrates on painting the portrait of Dorian, which in turn would be cursed by Dorian after being told that the painting will ever be young, but his beauty would wither. This makes Dorian wish that the portrait would carry the age burden as he remains young forever.

Work cited

Wilde, Oscar. The picture of Dorian gray. OUP Oxford, 2006.