The Picture of Dorian Gray. *Spoiler* by Aecio, April 14, 2013 In the end of the book, when Dorian stabs his cursed picture: Does it mean his soul is pure again, for his dead body now endures his age and sins while the picture that represented his soul is young again, or it's just about his curse being broken? Sparknotes is pissing me off today by GrammarJunkie18, April 20, 2014 First of all, there are only 3 important characters in this book.
They probably either represent the id, the ego, and the superego (obviously Lord Henry being the id, Dorian Gray being the ego, and Basil being the superego) or represent Dorian as a normal person with Lord Henry as the devil and Basil the voice of reason. I can't believe you're not even going to discuss this possibility at all! Second of all, one of the major themes of the novel is paradoxes. Novel, Romance, and Gothic: Brief Definitions. Purposes To create terror To open fiction to the realm of the irrational—perverse impulses, nightmarish terrors, obsessions—lying beneath the surface of the civilized mind To demonstrate the presence of the uncanny existing in the world that we know rationally through experience. Characters May include an innocent heroine persecuted by a lustful villain Appearance of ghosts Characters who disappear mysteriously Supernatural occurrences Focus on death and the events surrounding death; the living may seem half-dead and the dead half-alive.
Characters act from negative emotions: fear, revenge, despair, hatred, anger. Characteristics An atmosphere of gloom, terror, or mystery. Definition adapted from M. Selections from Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, The Coherence of Gothic Conventions (New York: Metheuen, 1986). When "an individual fictional self is the subject of one of these conventions, that self is spatialized in the following way. . © 1997-2013. Last modified November 29, 2012 10:13 AM Campbell, Donna M. The Tell-Tale Heart. "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. It is told by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of his sanity, while describing a murder he committed. (The victim was an old man with a filmy "vulture-eye", as the narrator calls it.)
The murder is carefully calculated, and the murderer hides the body by dismembering it and hiding it under the floorboards. Ultimately the narrator's guilt manifests itself in the form of the sound—possibly hallucinatory—of the old man's heart still beating under the floorboards. It is unclear what relationship, if any, the old man and his murderer share. The story was first published in James Russell Lowell's The Pioneer in January 1843. Plot summary[edit] "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a first-person narrative of an unnamed narrator[1] who insists he is sane but suffering from a disease (nervousness) which causes "over-acuteness of the senses". Publication history[edit] Analysis[edit] Adaptations[edit] Gazette PMF.