What, who, why, how
This is the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Who is Oscar Wilde?
This guy is an artist and is 'captivated' by Dorian Gray.
Who is Basil Hallward?
This is the era during which Oscar Wilde wrote.
What is the Victorian Era?
This is the part of Freud's iceberg that controls impulses.
What is 'id'?
This is the preferred method of the characters to get themselves onto furniture.
This guy loves to fling himself onto furniture, is a bored aristocrat and influencer, and is extremely irreverent.
Who is Lord Henry?
These are two main characteristics of the Victorian Era.
What is (answers will vary) strict class structure, women and men in separate spheres, very concerned with morals etc?
This is another term for 'pact with the devil'
What is Faustian Bargain?
Lord Henry influences Dorian into believing that this is the only important thing in life.
Dorian makes a Faustian bargain for this.
What is to stay young and beautiful forever as his painting ages.
In order to understand Oscar Wilde's book, we need to understand this art movement he was a major part of, whose slogan was 'art for art's sake.'
What is aestheticism?
This is the part of Freud's iceberg that is responsible for rationality, logic, and morality.
What is the superego?
This is the way in which Lord Henry is an influencer in this way.
What is Lord Henry decides to influence Dorian Gray to convince him that he will lose everything once his beauty and youth fades? (answers will vary slightly)
This is who Dorian falls in love with, and why.
This is an example of a book we've read in the past where context helped explain the story.
What is: answers will vary.
These are the when, where, and who of Jack the Ripper.
What is 1888, in Whitechapel London, and poor working class women with a drinking problem?
This character is the 'deus ex machina' used to tell Dorian's back story.
Who is Lord Henry's uncle?
This is the type narrator the novel has.
What is third person omniscient?
This is the definition of context.
What is: answers will vary slightly but... back story, historical happenings that influence the outcomes and consequences?
What is to convey a message easily to people because they are illerate?