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'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde (Pt. 4)
a day ago
We are now going to look at The Picture of Dorian Gray in comparison to two other texts presenting to us the destruction of character. Dorian is a tragedy, that much is true, but we will look at other...
'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde (Pt. 3)
3 days ago
Now that we have gone through how Dorian's identity is changed and influenced, we are going to look through some lenses to do with the novel and the character of Dorian. The two lenses we will use are...
'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde (Pt. 2)
5 days ago
We are now going to go through what circumstances, situations and events change and mould Dorian's personality. We will find this out by analysing the first few chapters and what they tell us about th...
An Introduction to William Wordsworth
6 days ago
Most commonly known as one of the greatest poets of the English Language, William Wordsworth was also a philosophical man, writing famously in his preface to the co-authored work The Lyrical Ballads t...
Machiavellian Authority on the Renaissance Stage
6 days ago
It is commonly interpreted in Early Modern Drama that Machiavelli "appears as the Devil incarnate, or at least as the incorporation of all hypocrisy" (Meyer, 1969). According to the Oxford English Dic...
'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde
7 days ago
The Picture of Dorian Gray is possibly one of the most controversial and scandalous pieces of Victorian fiction. There are many reasons for this, and yet we need only explore one of them to get the no...