ENGA10H3 Lecture 2: ENGA10 lec 2 notes The picture of Dorian Gray
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Enga10-lecture 2-the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde. To dorian gray, you are what other people makes you feel. God-soul relationship (god-lord henry and soul-dorian gray) theme. Comfortably numb by pink floyd: the manager in the song represents lord henry. And when the singer is not on the spotlight, he is overwhelmed by everything, similar to dorian gray. Back to vampiric relationship: lord henry is basically a zombie living off of dorian gray. Henry is too old to feel all this sensual pleasures, and so he lives those pleasures through dorian instead. Nietzsche- (cid:862)god is dead(cid:863) (cid:449)as a paradig(cid:373) for people. Lord henry also keeps a wall to keep everyone out. He says all this big philosophical things and yet we as readers never learn much about him, neither does dorian. Doria(cid:374)"s self or (cid:862)the (cid:272)apitalist (cid:449)ithi(cid:374) hi(cid:373)(cid:863) is (cid:374)e(cid:448)er satisfied, a(cid:374)d so al(cid:449)a(cid:455)s (cid:272)o(cid:374)su(cid:373)es, si(cid:373)ilar to the culture we have now.
