Reference no: EM133320856
Part 1
1. Record and discuss what the elder HW says about ennui and about Destiny--esp. how these abstractions have had very real effects in Dorian's life.
2. Explain what terrorizes Dorian Gray--and how a transition is made to the Duchess of Monmouth.
3. Explain how Wilde moves DG from love to self to safety inside one paragraph.
4. Why does Oscar Wilde include the Duchess of Monmouth? What is the serious purpose within comic relief (comedy of manners)?
5. What does Dorian prepare to do when Thornton arrives? What is the gamekeeper's real news?
6. How does the chapter conclude? What is Dorian's response to discovering who died? (cf Kate Chopin's THE STORY OF AN HOUR)
Part 2
1. A couple weeks later, DG goes to visit HW to announce this major decision (New Ideal/"I spared somebody"):
2. Henry promulgates the aesthetic philosophy; DG is the practitioner. How have their roles worked out for each man? (cf ch18b Dorian says, "You would sacrifice anybody, Harry, for the sake of an epigram.")
3. What has happened to Alan Campbell? What does HW imagine could have happened to BH? What does DG ask HW about BH?
4. Regarding Dorian's decision to reform/repent, how does his attempt at virtue already come up as insufficient (cf HW says, "I cannot say that I think much of your great renunciation. Even as a beginning, it is poor.")