Dorian Gray Picture In The Attic

In victorian london a beautiful young man is given a portrait of himself by an admiring artist.

Dorian gray picture in the attic.

Summary and analysis chapter 10. Gray unwittingly makes a faustian pact whereby his own youthful beauty remains unblemished while a portrait he hides in an attic shows the ravages visited on his face and body by his ugly. He calls for victor his servant who enters the room. The book is set in 19th century england and focuses on a young man called dorian gray.

And while basil is busy with the painting he introduces dorian to lord henry wotton an old oxford friend. It occurs to dorian that the servant has had access to the portrait and may have looked behind the screen. When dorian enters the attic room he detects a horrible smell. Instead of skeletons in his closet dorian has a painting in his attic.

Dorian has his picture painted by his friend basil hallward. However there is no sign of basil howard. The scientist curtly states that he has done what he was asked to do and hopes never to see dorian again. Dorian gray s own face remains young and beautiful but the face in the painting looks older and more ugly as gray becomes more and more evil and immoral.

Dorian is waiting downstairs in the library when campbell enters pale but calm well after seven that evening. Eventually he cannot endure the portrait and hides it in the attic. Some critics have interpreted the hidden painting as a metaphor for sexuality dorian keeps his shame and guilt about his homosexual tendencies in the closet as it were. Soon after this he treats a young woman cruelly and then notices that his portrait seems to look meaner than it used to.

The picture of dorian gray. The picture of dorian gray begins on a beautiful summer day in victorian england where lord henry wotton an opinionated man is observing the sensitive artist basil hallward painting the portrait of dorian gray a handsome young man who is basil s ultimate muse.