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The Picture of Dorian Gray

Hi there!

It’s now time for you to find out about one of the most interesting
and influential classics of the Gothic novel at the time as well as
searching for information to understand Oscar Wilde and his novels.

You are about to work in groups. Consider that the people you work with are going to influence in
the final result of your project and as a consequence, of your mark. All of the members in the
groups must be responsible and work properly as for the rest of the members. Everything will be
taken into account.

3rd A, B and C: you are going to work in groups of three this time, so make sure you work with a person
who has read the book and is going to share the tasks with you.

You have to choose a number from 1- 8 and work on the topic you have picked up. The final

date to deliver the task will be on: Sunday the 18th February (23:59pm)

The tasks which are not delivered on time will be penalized. You
need to cover all of the points required in the topic.
The format of the project is free, so you can choose how you want to do it (power
point, Prezi, lap book, movie maker, powtoon, genially, etc).

Remember you need to include:

- An index with the different sections.


- Brief information about the author and the period he was writing on and its main
characteristics, the kind of books he wrote and the main characters in his fictional novels.
- Developing the topic, you have chosen by using the questions provided in this file, and think that you
have to find some connection with the story you have read.
- Closing is important too (what you have learnt, something you want to underline from your
research, thanks to the audience, wait for their questions, …).

TAKE A LOOK:
• Extra information will be taken into account.
• Originality will be considered.
• Copy and paste will be penalized.
• The presentation must be well worked and neat.
• The oral presentation must be well prepared and you will not be able to read.
Suggested Project Topics on The Picture of Dorian Gray
You can start by giving some information about the author and the period he was writing on and its main
characteristics, the kind of books he wrote and the main characters in his fictional novels.
Then choose and develop minimum one topic from the list (more topics can be chosen as an extra mark). If
you are more than two persons in your team because of the number of people in your classroom, tell your
teacher about it before you go on.

1. The Picture of Dorian Gray is a gothic novel. Find out about the characteristic of the Gothic novel and analyze
the gothic elements in The Picture of Dorian Gray.
2. Find out about the Faust Legend and explain it, then discuss the parallels between Dorian’s story and the

Faust legend. Does Dorian make a pact with the devil?

3. THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY THEME OF YOUTH

Eternal youth is something pretty much everyone dreams of, but nobody attains – nobody, that is, except for Dorian
Gray. Sure, it sounds great. After all, youth goes hand in hand with beauty, excitement, and general all-around
lovability. Youth is glorified to an extreme degree in The Picture of Dorian Gray, as basically the most valuable quantity
known to man.
However, Dorian's eternal youth comes at a terrible price: he essentially has to sell his soul to get it (something
that never turns out well). The moral of the story is, you should enjoy and appreciate youth while you have it – but just
give it up when the time comes.

Questions About Youth

1. Is there anything more valuable than youth in Dorian's eyes?


2. Why does Dorian decide to destroy the painting at the end of the novel?
3. If Dorian had not destroyed the portrait, what do you think would have happened to him? Would he have stayed
eternally youthful?
4. What qualities does youth represent in this novel?
5. Try on an opinion or two, start a debate, or play the devil’s advocate. Dorian Gray demonstrates that the mere
image of youth is not youth itself

4. THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY THEME OF MORTALITY


Death and age really get a bad rap in The Picture of Dorian Gray. To our protagonist, the most important things in life
are youth and beauty – really, they're the only important things. Losing them is so unthinkable that he decides to sell
his soul in exchange for eternal youth.
It might just be us, but this doesn't seem like the best of bargains. Still, it's the way the story goes, and in the end, it
turns out – surprise, surprise! – that nobody can actually escape his own mortality.
Questions About Mortality

1. Why is Dorian so afraid of aging?


2. Does this novel offer us any hope for life after middle age?
3. What are the various characters' thoughts on the natural process of age and death?
4. Try on an opinion or two, start a debate, or play the devil’s advocate. The absence of appealing aging characters
might lead readers of The Picture of Dorian Gray to believe that life stops at forty.
5. Death is interestingly removed from any religious sense of the afterlife; in the novel, death is truly an ending
without the possibility of future salvation.
5. THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY THEME OF APPEARANCES

You've probably heard this saying about a billion and one times, but since it's so very correct, we think it bears
repeating: "Don't judge a book by its cover." Really, don't do it. As we see in The Picture of Dorian Gray, you can never
be sure what's lying beneath that fancy-pants, super-exciting cover – it may look gorgeous on the outside, but it could
be totally poisonous on the inside.

The protagonist of this novel, Dorian Gray himself, is a case in point: he's unbelievably beautiful on the surface, but his
soul is grosser than gross. However, throughout the novel, he gets away with the dastardliest things, simply because he
looks too innocent to do anything wrong.

Questions About Appearances

1. What is the relationship between inner and outer beauty here?


2. The novel suggests that we always mistake beautiful people for good people – do you think that's an apt
commentary on human perception?
3. Why does Dorian place so much value on his body's appearance, when he knows full well what his hideous soul
"looks" like?
4. Does Lord Henry think that there is anything beyond appearance?

6. THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY THEME OF FRIENDSHIP

As in life, everyone has different ideas about the nature of friendship in The Picture of Dorian Gray. To some, it entails
great things like devotion, admiration, and loyalty – but, to others, it means a kind of relationship of mutual interest and
temporary companionship.
To others still, "friend" might as well be totally replaced with "frenemy." However, you swing it, friendship is an
important recurring theme in Wilde's novel, and its different definitions cause a lot of conflict.

Questions About Friendship

1. What is Basil's idea of friendship? Lord Henry's? Dorian's?


2. Do we see any true version of friendship in this novel?
3. Does Dorian ultimately have any real friends?
4. In the world of the novel, is friendship important?
5. Try on an opinion or two, start a debate, or play the devil’s advocate. Wilde's characters are fundamentally
friendless and alone, and even if they don't recognize that this is a problem, it makes true happiness
impossible for any of them.

7. Book Trailer:

Create a book trailer for Dorian Gray, combining still pictures or live action with music and words to represent an
overall theme of the novel.
Obviously step one is to choose a theme (not a motif!). Your trailer needs to be engaging enough that people want to
read the novel, but shouldn’t give away all the juicy details of the plot.
Be imaginative! You must keep your trailer in a flash drive for viewing in class OR post it on YouTube. Anyway, you
need to send me the video or link to assess your project; you can use www.wetransfer.com too.
Remember: technical difficulties are not an excuse for not having a project on time. You must also include a typed
paragraph-long (at least) explanation of what your theme is, how it fits the novel as a whole, and why you created
this particular trailer.

8. Find out about these historical BACKGROUNDS of the time


•The Victorian era
•Personal servants
•Upper class English society in Oscar wilder’s time
•Shooting
•Actresses
•Tea.

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