Posted in Uncategorized on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Plot: Dorian stabs the picture, hence himself.
Theme: self-consciousness that leads to loath his evil nature, desire to be free of it.
Key words: beauty, purification, blood, death, sin, hypocrisy
The symbolism of the character of Hetty:
She represents the lost innocence: p. 251 “she knew nothing, but she had everything he had lost”
The crucial point [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Plot: The chapter consists of a talk between Lord Henry (LH) and Dorian, about Dorian’s attempt to change life, morality, Lord Henry’s divorce, Basil disappearance, art and youth
The character of Lord Henry:
p.240 “Pray, don’t change.” open contradiction to what, at p. 181, Basil said: “Lead us not into temptation.”.
p.240 “You’re quite perfect” [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
He was seated at the piano, with his back to them, turning over the pages of a volume of Schuman’s ‘Forest Scenes’. (pg. 22 – first paragraph)
In this paragraph we first see Dorian Gray, who we know since the first chapter by the words Basil described him to Lord Henry. As we go through the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the firsts seven chapters of the novel the women are often mentioned, both as protagonists of general considerations and as specific individualities (Victoria and Sybil, mostly); I will firstly write about the latest.
Victoria, “laughed nervously as she spoke”(p.56), she “tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy”(p.56) when she meets [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lord Henry (called Harry by Basil and Dorian) is an upper class married man. He is middle age and in the first six chapters appears as Basil’s friend.
If I had to describe him in a few words, those may be: cynic, arrogant, immoral, independent, intelligent, self-confident and critic. I’ll discuss this while talking about his [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The text is an introduction to a book which attempts to describe the relationship between the Islamic world and the Western world, including here France, Britain and especially United States, as the author, Edward W. Said says.
“In ‘Covering Islam’ my subject is immediately contemporary: Western and specifically American responses to an Islamic world perceived, since [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“In many instances “Islam” has licensed not only patent inaccuracy but also expressions of unrestrained ethnocentrism, cultural and even racial hatred, deep yet paradoxically free-floating hostility. All this has taken place as part of what is presumed to be fair, balanced, responsible coverage of Islam.” (p.22) In this paragraph we can see that the author’s [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Most anti islamophobic arguments resort to the idea that Islam is being used as a way of escaping from western society’s problems, that it is being demonized so the West can blame it for everything.
In “Covering Islam” we can see during the text how Edward W. Said completely supports this point of view but, what [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Most anti islamophobic arguments resort to the idea that Islam is being used as a way of escaping from western society’s problems, that it is being demonized so the West can blame it for everything. In “Covering Islam” we can see during the text how Edward W. Said completely supports this point of view but, what [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By asking many rhetorical questions, such as “what should have been done?”(Said, W. Edward, Covering Islam, p.28) and “But was Iran- is Iran- rational?”(Ibid) Edward W. Said is giving us answers related to Islam and Islamophobia.
Said’s opinion is that Islam is a special case, as he says “I mean that like so much [...]
