Saturday, May 24, 2014

The picture of Dorian Gray, first chapter mind map

The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 issue of this magazine.The main theme of the novel is aestheticism and duplicity (mainly a double life) This is the first chapter of the novel were the main plot is the interactions between Basil Hallward and Lord Henry Wotton and a short story of basil when he first met Dorian Grey.

This is the link for the first chapter mind map:
In the mind map are the following themes 
"all art is quite useless" 
The personality traits of the character in the first chapter (Dorian Grey, Lord Henry and Basil Hallward).
Oscar Wilde
The aesthetic movement 
The Victorian times 

Link:
http://www.mindmeister.com/418062835/the-picture-of-dorian-gray



The novel link
http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/oscar-wilde/dorian-gray.pdf

Bibliography  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray#Themes
http://www.shmoop.com/picture-dorian-gray/basil-hallward.html
http://courses.wcupa.edu/fletcher/britlitweb/cklinb.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_literature#The_style_of_the_Victorian_novel
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Art_for_art's_sake
http://www.cranleighdfas.org/rev1101.htm

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