Setting
Define setting.
Setting in a piece of literature is the time and place in which the story takes place.
How is a simile different from a metaphor?
Both similes and metaphors are literary techniques used to compare two differentthings; however, they do so differently. A simile is a comparison that uses "like" or "as" in the comparison. A metaphor is a comparison that says something is something else.
What are the two settings which represent Dorian's dual character/ two sides?
West End
East end
What is synecdoche?
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in England lost by six wickets (meaning ‘ the English cricket team’).
What does the East End in the novel represent?
The decrepit East End represents Dorian's creepy, evil side, where he usually goes to try to forget his criminal life.
How is time personified in the novel?
It gave it the quality of being jealous of beauty; it will not let any beauty stand its test.
The focal point of the novel from chapters 6-13 is ______.
the playroom
"he had lived centuries of pain, aeon upon aeon of torture"
what is the effect of the hyperbole used ...stressing the horridness of the play.
enhances the extremity of his discontent with the show.
The Playroom once used to be Dorian's _____.
It used to be his study room during his childhood.
Oscar Wilde also uses connotative words like reverie, dreaming, and unconscious is an example of which figurative device?
Diction
Name two settings from chapter 6-10 other than the following:
East end
West End
Playroom
The library, The living room (both in Dorian's house), and the streets of London.
" I was wrong. It has destroyed me." ... "It is the face of my soul."
What is the Dorian's Portrait a symbol of?
The painting is a symbol of Dorian's demise, and the increasing amount of sin in his life.
What is Paul Newland's view on how the East end is portrayed in the novel?
He believes that the novel imagines the East End as a space in which exotic middle class fantasies can be played out and a place for hedonistic indulgences.
" I must sow poppies in my garden"
What do poppies represent?
what does garden represent?
poppies represent mourning and "garden" represents life.
What did the playroom symbolize in Dorian's past? In his present?
The playroom in the past was his refuge and a symbol of his purity, in the present, it becomes the scene of his crime and of his morbid delight in his growing depravity.
What is the irony portrayed in the novel?
Dorian's portrait vs. his soul
What is evidence from the novel that supports this statement, "all the other settings form concentric circles around the playroom."
This is supported by the fact that whenever Dorian leaves the house or London for any length of time, he is drawn back as if by magic to this room.
Dorian’s travels between East and West London pose a threat to the society of West London. Why?
Whilst Dorian’s travels between East and West London pose a threat to the society of West London, what is shown to be most damaging about the East is that it results in a loss of identity, creating an ‘othering’ of the self.