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The Picture of Dorian Gray Symbolism Presentation
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
Image Synthesis Project Presentation: Symbolism
What is Symbolism?
- Use of something material
- Represent something immaterial
- Conveys deeper meaning within the novel
Works Cited
- Wilde, Oscar, and Joseph Bristow. The Picture of Dorian Gray. New ed. New York: Oxford U, 2008. Print.
- Dunbar, Paul L. "We Wear the Mask." Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation, n.d. Web. 17 Feb. 2015.
- Funeral Pall. Digital image. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Feb. 2015.
- Haytch, Saerah. "Hiding Behind a Mask." Deviant Art. Deviant Art, 17 June 2010. Web. 17 Feb. 2015.
- "The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde." Rowland Book Collections. Rowland Book Collections, 10 June 2010. Web. 17 Feb. 2015.
- Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Ed. Joseph Bristow. New ed. New York: Oxford U, 2008. Print.
Works Cited
Dorian's Portrait
- Dorian's actual age
- What Dorian's physical appearance should be
- Dorian's true, evil personality
- What Dorian is spared from
(Quote: p. 109)
We Wear the Mask
poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Mask = Covering
- Covering hides real Dorian
- Mask = Dorian
- Dorian's appearance hides real self
"As the door closed, Dorian put the key into his pocket, and looked around the room. His eyes fell on a large purple satin coverlet, heavily embroidered with gold, a splendid piece of late seventeenth-century Venetian work that his grandfather had found in a convent near Bologna. Yes, that would serve to wrap the dreadful thing in. It had perhaps served often as a pall for the dead. Now it was to hide something that had a corruption of its own, worse than the corruption of death itself-something that would breed horrors and yet would never die." Wilde 101
- Conceals death and decay
- Referred to as a "pall"
- (pall = covering for coffin)
- Colored purple (luxury/power)
The Covering
Justin Huang, Roxie Smith, Megan Benmore, and Joseph Isaac