Capitoli The picture of Dorian Gray, Appunti di Inglese

Scarica Capitoli The picture of Dorian Gray e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! CHAPTER 1 At the center of the study there was the Basil's painting, who him was looking at it smiling. Basil was sitting on a chair, while Lord Henry was on the sofa smoking a cigarette. Lord Henry told Basil that it was the best job he had ever done and that he had to send it to Grosvenor to expose it, but Basil told that he didn't want to exhibit it because he had put too much of himself in it. But the boy in the painting was very different from him, he had deliate features andl ight hair, instead Basil hada strong face and black hair. Lord henry wanted to know why Basil didn't want to exhibit the painting, at that point Basil decided to tell him the story. He had gone to a party to Lady Brandon, where he had met Dorian for the first time. Heknew he had met someone whose personality could absorb his soul and his art; infact, now Dorian is all his art, his ispiration. Since he had met Dorian he had created the best job of his life. So if people saw the portrait, they could gess the secret ofhis heart. CHAPTER 2 When Basil and Lord Henry entered in the house they saw Dorian sitting at the piano. Basil introduced them and Lord Henry said that he was very happy to meet him. Basil had to finish the painting, so he asked Lord Henry to go away, but Dorian told him to stay. Dorian had grown tired of standing for the portrait, so he went to sit in the garden whit Lord Henry. Lord Henry told Dorian to sit in the shade, because he was young and it was the only things that really mattered, and there wasn't absolutely nothing in the world if not youth. Basil finishes the portrait and when saw it his cheeks flushed with pleasure and he remembered Lord Henry's words about the brevity of the youth and the beauty; he was saddened and he said he was jealous of the youth of the portrait and that he would kill himself as soon as he discovered he was aging. Basil got angry with Lord Henry asking him what he had told Dorian and he decided to break the portrait rather than fight with his best friends, but Dorian prevented him saying that it was like a murder; the portrait was part of himself and he had fallen in love. CHAPTER 3 Lord Henry went to his uncle George to ask him some informations about Dorian Gray; he told him that Dorian's mother was a beautiful woman and taht she fell in love with a poor soldier whom Dorian's father had killed by a brute in a duel. Then, Lorh Henry went to his aunt Agatha and on the way he tought about the story of Dorian's parents; his interest in the young man had grown even more. He remembered how Dorian had listened to him the night before; he had completely fascinated him, he could do everything he wanted with Dorian, he would make that wonderful spirit his own. One day Dorian was in the library at Lord Henry's house, while he was waiting for him; when Lord Henry arrived they began to talk and Dorian told him thay he was in love with an actress called Sibyl Vane met at the theater. He wanted Basil and Lord Henry to see her act. CHAPTER 4 Sibyl and her mother were in the living room of their house and they were talking about acting. Sibyl was happy, but her mother told her thay she had to think only about acting, because they were poor and couldn't think about love because she was still young. James, Sibyl's brother, arrived and told Sibyl to get ready to go for a walk in the park with him, giving that, then, he had to leave for Australia. While she was getting ready, James told his mother that he had heared that a gentleman was going to the theater evry night to talk to Sibyl and therefore he had to watch over her and protect her. Walking around the park, Sibyl spoke, excitedly, with her brother but he didn't listen to her, being sad. Then, James told her taht he had heared that she had a new friend; he asked who was him, what she knew about him and if he could be trusted. Back home, James, before leaving, said that if this man would hurt Sibyl, he will kill him like a dog. While Basil and Lord Henry were waiting for Dorian, to go to the therter, they were having dinner at the Brisol Hotel and Lord Henry revealed the news that Dorian was engaged to an actress and that he wanted to marry; Basil didn't believe it and he felt that Dorian would never be for him all that been in the past. CHAPTER 5 Arrived at the theater Sibyl Vane had appeared on the stage; she was certainly adorable to watch, bet her acting lacked passion and vitavily. Dorian paled ah he looked her her. Lord Henry, at the end of the second act, got up and left. After the play, Dorian went, angry and disappointed, to Sibyl; she told him that there was a reason why she had played so badly and it was because since she met him, she understood what love was and it was not what she did on stage; she released her soul fron prison. He replied that he had fallen in love with her, beacuse she was wonderful, with intellect and genius, and now, without art, she was nothing and he left her. When he returned at home he saw the expression of the portrait changed, with lines of cruelty around his mouth; at that point, he remembered the day when the painting was finished that he had expressed the desire to remain young and beautiful, instead the portrait would have aged and become ugly... his wish had come true. He thought oh why those cruel lines on his mouth, had he been cruel? Then, he decided to return with Sibyl ancd marry her. CHAPTER 6 One afternoon, Dorian woke up happy, had his breakfast quietly, but when he looked at the portrait he was shocked and afraid, it had really changed; the portrait had made him aware of how cruel and unfaur he had been with Sibyl, so he decided to write her a letter asking for her forgiveness. When he finished writting the letter he felt he had been forgiven. In that moment Lord Henry knocked on the door; he asked him if he had read his letter, given that for Dorian everything was going well and he wanted to marry Sibyl, he replied that he had not yet read it and, at that point, Lord Henry told him about Sibyl's death. Dorian was stunned from the horror, he blamed himself for what happened; but she had committed suicide because Dorian didn't love her anymore. After Lord Henry left, he looked at the picture again and he saw no further changes. He had received the news of Sibyl's death before he realised it himself. CHAPTER 7 While Dorian was having breakfast, Basil come into the room, because he called Dorian last night but he didn't find him. Basil thought that Dorian had gone to see the Sibyl's mother, but Dorian said that he went to the opera, even if Sibyl lay dead in a room. Dorian looked bored and indifferent and Basil said to him that he wanted the old boy, who was beautiful but simple and affectionate. Dorian said to him that now he was a man and that Lord Henry teached him to love his beauty. Dorian didn't want basil to see the portrait, but Basil wanted to exhibit it in Paris; Dorian was terrified because the world could see his secret. Basil told that Dorian's personality had a lot of influence on him and when he finished it he realized that he had put too much of himself in it, but if Dorian didn't want he will not exhibit it. When Basil left the room, Dorian took the key to the old schoolroom and he made move the portrait upstairs. On returining to the library Dorian found a note and a book from Lord Henry. He began reading it; he became absorbed and fascinated and he could not put it down ..