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Description of the east end

‘A cold rain began to fall and the blurred streetlamps looked…

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ghastly in the dripping mist.’

Dorian’s judgement is clouded again, shown by the mist. The east end seems like a dire place.

2
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‘Dorian Gray watched with listless eyes the…

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sordid shame of the great city.’

Listless- all passion of life gone
shows a duality in London, east end represents Dorian’s sinful side while the west end represents his beautiful outer shell

3
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‘There were opium dens where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness …

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of sins that were new.’

trying to get over his guilt of past sins (Basil) by sinning more. slippery slope.

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‘The moon hung low in the sky like…

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a yellow skull.’

an omen, there is about to be an attempt on Dorian’s life by James Vane. Yellow is a dirty colour, this skull is stained and impure, like Dorian’s perhaps. Also shows the badness Dorian sees in the world around him and how his perspective has changed.

5
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‘The side windows of the hansom were clogged …

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with a grey flannel mist.’

Mist clouds Dorian’s judgement. Grey flannel image of prison and sin, dire and ugly

6
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‘His soul, certainly, was ….

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sick to death.’

He feels dead

7
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‘The hideous hunger for opium began to…

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gnaw at him.’

makes his hunger and desire into an animal that hurts him until it’s satisfied

8
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‘he could see the strange bottle shaped kilns with their orange…

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fan-like tongues of fire’

He makes the setting into a monster. orange is a colour of danger and fear. Fire is scary ect

9
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‘Wreaths of white mist clung like ghostly…

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sails to the yards.’

James Vane is a sailor. Is the setting trying to alert Dorian to the danger or is it irony.

10
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‘The slimy pavement looked like a …

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wet mackintosh.’

Sailor imagery

11
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‘From time to time he seemed to see the eyes of …

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Basil Hallward looking at him.’

He feels guilt at the sin, sees Basil

12
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Dorian

‘He wanted to escape…

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from himself.’

He feels trapped in his life

13
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A woman in the opium den:

‘There goes the devil’s bargain!’ … She snapped her fingers. ‘Prince Charming…

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is what you like to be called, ain’t it.?’

14
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‘In her dealings with man Destiny…

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never closed her accounts.’

Personification of destiny. Dorian had to be punished?

15
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‘Callous, concentrated on evil, with stained…

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mind and soul hungry for rebellion, Dorian Gray hastened on.’

16
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Dorian by James Vane

‘He was trust back against the wall, with a brutal…

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hound round his throat.’

He is completely at mercy of James Vane

17
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‘You had better confess your sins, for as sure as I am James Vane…

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you are going to die.’

18
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James Vane

‘For the face of the man he had sought to kill had all he bloom of boyhood, …

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all the U stained purity of youth.’

19
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About Dorian

‘They say he has sold himself to the devil for…

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a pretty face.’