The Picture of Dorian Gray Questionnaire 2

Reading Report(Specific Questions)

1. Does Lord Henry believe Dorian Gray when he tells him that he killed Basil?
2. What does Lord Henry think the murder is?
3. What did Dorian Gray tell Lord Henry about the painting that Basilio did?
4. What does Dorian Gray think is the soul?
5. According to Lord Henry, what is the drama of old age?
6. What does Dorian Gray think of the faults and sins committed?
7. What was the youth then?
8. With what object did Dorian Gray go to see the portrait?
9. Who decided to do Dorian with the portrait?
10. What is the end of this story?
11. Why did Basil make a portrait of Dorian?
12. What did Basil say about the portaretrato that he did?
13. Why did not Basil want to show the portaretrato?
14. What do I think Lord Henry does about this?
15. What does Lord Henry think about his marriage?
16. Why did not Basil want to involve Dorian with Lord Henry?
17. What is the relationship between the author and the lack of character of the central character in the book?
18. What is the real relationship between death, life and sin, relating it to the situation of the time?
19. At what point does the character decide to rebel against the establishment?
20. Why does the character pose a different aesthetic and a way to see the world really "bizarre"?
21. The fact that Sibyl Vane is an actress, does it influence what Dorian feels for her? How?
22. What was Dorian's first impression of Lord Henry's wife in the fourth chapter when they met?
23. In chapter five they mention that the life of James and Sibyl has been very hard and difficult, what is that new hope that makes in the two to think that everything will change?
24.  In chapter four you see a new Dorian, with different aspirations and different ways of seeing life. What reasons led Dorian to open up more to the world, to walk around his city, to know life and to seek passions and sensations?
25. When Dorian tells Henry of his immense love for Sibyl, he stops to think that he was not jealous or bothered at all by the news. Had Lord Henry had any reason to be jealous?
26. Why does not James like the idea of Sibyl going out with Dorian?
27. What is the one thing that James asks his mother and begs him to do while he is in Australia as a sailor?
28. What do Harry and Basil think, according to the description Dorian gives you of Sibyl in the sixth chapter?
29. What value is given to youth and beauty in the work?