Chapter summaries Flashcards

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Summarise events of chapter 1.

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  • Set in Basil Hallward’s outer London home
  • Basil shows Lord Henry his latest painting
  • Lord Henry tries to convince Basil to showcase painting but he claims he can’t as there is too much of himself in painting
  • Dorian arrives and Basil asks Lord Henry not to spoil him
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Summarise events of Chapter 2.

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  • Dorian sits for Basil’s painting and portrays child-like behaviours
  • Lord Henry discusses his philosophies about youth and beauty being the most important aspects of humanity
  • Dorian curses how his portrait will not age but he will
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Summaries events of chapter 3.

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  • Lord Henry becomes fascinated by Dorian and sets his sights on influencing him to the views of aestheticism
  • Both Henry and Dorian attend Lay Agatha’s sinner party and Henry charmed with his hedonistic views
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Summarise the events of chapter 4

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  • Dorian tells Henry he has fallen in love with an actress called Sybil Vane
  • Dorian asks Henry to accompany him to watch her perform
  • Dorian sends Henry a telegram stating that he is engaged to Sybil
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Summarise the events of chapter 5

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  • Perspective of Sybil’s family who have doubts about Dorian
  • Sybil and James walk in the park and see Dorian but he disappears before James sees him
  • James says that if Dorian ever hurts her, he will kill him
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Summarise the events of chapter 6.

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  • Lord Henry tells Basil of Dorian’s engagement
  • Basil is concerned about Dorian marrying beneath his class
  • Lord Henry defends Dorian as he is just in a pursuit of pleasure
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Summarise events of chapter 7

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  • Basil, Dorian and Henry go to watch Sybil who gives a very poor performance on stage
  • Dorian calls off the engagement when Sybil tries to explain that she cannot portray love on stage when she now knows it in real life
  • Dorian notices that the face of his portrait has changed
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Summarise the events of chapter 8

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  • Lord Henry tells Dorian that Sybil has committed suicide
  • Dorian originally feels guilty but Henry convinces him this is not something to be upset about
  • Dorian commits to a life of hedonism
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Summarise the events of chapter 9.

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  • Basil asks Dorian to see the portrait
  • Dorian declines and attempts to hide the painting
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Summarise the events of chapter 10.

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  • Dorian locks the portrait in his childhood room
  • Dorian becomes entranced by a little yellow book gifted by Henry that outlays hedonism
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Summarise the events of chapter 11.

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  • 18 year time jump
  • Dorian is still young and beautiful but is permanently paranoid about the painting
  • Chapter focuses on Dorian’s developing love and study of beautiful things
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Summarise the events of chapter 12.

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  • Basil and Dorian run into one another before Basil is due to go to Paris
  • Basil questions Dorian’s recent behaviours including his driving of another individual to suicide
  • Dorian offers to show him his soul
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Summarise the events of chaoter 13.

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  • Dorian shows Basil the painting and he is appalled
  • Basil begs Dorian to repent for his sins
  • Dorian kills Basil in a fit of rage
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Summarise the events of chapter 14.

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  • Dorian calls for his old friend and chemist, Alan Campbell
  • He asks him for help disposing a body
  • At first Alan refuses but Dorian threatens him with blackmail so he submits
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Summarise the events of chapter 15.

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  • Dorian attends one of Lady Narborough’s dinner parties
  • He snaps at Henry when he asks of his whereabouts the night before
  • He goes home and burns Basil’s things before heading to an opium den
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Summarise the events of chapter 16.

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  • Dorian enters the opium den and sees Adrian Singleton, a man whom he has corrupted.
  • He begins to feel guilty then a woman speaks to him and calls him ‘prince charming’
  • James Vane takes Dorian outside and threatens him
  • Dorian defends himself by claiming he is too young
  • Old lady inside tells James that Dorian has not changed in 18 years and James regrets letting him go
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Summarise the events of chapter 17.

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  • Dorian joins the Duchess of Monmouth for a dinner party
  • She tells him he puts too much emphasis on beauty
  • Dorian faints after seeing the face of James Vane in the window
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Summarise the events of chapter 18.

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  • Dorian leaves his house after days of isolation due to fear of James Vane
  • He finds that James Vane has accidentally been shot by a shooting party
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Summarise the events of chapter 19.

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  • Dorian and Henry discuss the suicide of Alan Campbell and the mystery of Basil’s disappearance
  • Henry laughs at Dorian’s suggestion that he killed Basil
  • Dorian decides he will reform himself
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Summarise the events of chapter 20.

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  • Dorian visits the locked room to see if the portrait had reverted
  • It has not and so Dorian stabs a portrait and there is a big bang, leaving portrait back to its original self and Dorian an ugly old man with a knife through his chest.