ENGA10H3- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 54 pages long!)
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Enga10 midterm- books: the picture of dorian gray, heart of. The narrator chronicles both the objective or external world and the subjective or internal thoughts and feelings of the characters. In the stately london home of his aunt, lady brandon, the well-known artist basil hallward meets dorian gray. Dorian is a cultured, wealthy, and impossibly beautiful young man who immediately captures basil"s artistic imagination. Dorian sits for several portraits, and basil often depicts him as an ancient greek hero or a mythological figure. Lord henry, a famous wit who enjoys scandalizing his friends by celebrating youth, beauty, and the selfish pursuit of pleasure, disagrees, claiming that the portrait is basil"s masterpiece. Dorian arrives at the studio, and basil reluctantly introduces him to lord henry, who he fears will have a damaging influence on the impressionable, young dorian. Basil"s fears are well founded; before the end of their first conversation, lord.
