book report by:

Bar Levi, Ben Buskila

8th grade 2017

About the author

Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London’s most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel the picture of dorian grey, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.

Short summery

In his London studio, artist Basil Hallward puts the finishing touches on his latest portrait, that of a young man. Although Lord Henry, who is visiting with Basil, asks about the young man’s identity, Basil declines to answer, noting his preference for secrecy. Basil never intends to exhibit the painting, because if he did, it would bare the deepest feelings in his soul. However, Basil lets slip that the subject of the portrait is Dorian Gray, who shortly thereafter pays the two men a house call.

ord Henry immediately begins to influence Dorian, suggesting that he should treasure and guard his youth and beauty while he has them, because they will soon fade. Terrified of aging, Dorian wishes he could trade his soul to stay as young as he looks in the portrait; a short while later, he again wishes that he could stay young while the image in the painting aged. The portrait thus begins to take on a life-like existence; in fact, Basil’s threat to burn the portrait is likened to “murder” and Basil prefers the company of the portrait to the real Dorian… and the sequal you will discover alone.

the main characters:

Sybil Vane: Sybil  was Dorian’s girlfriend before she killed herself after Dorian broke up with her.

Basil Hallward: Basil was the artist who draw Dorian’s portrait who Dorian also killed after he said he prefers the portrait Dorian.

Lord Henry: Henry made dorian a awfull person.

Dorians personality

Dorian before the picture was charming and kind to everybody.

after ther picture he murderd Basil and made his girlefriend kill herself after he broke up with her. he became cruel and insensetive.

“The picture is a mirror of the soul”

the meaning of the sentence in the picture dorian didnt grow older and in reel life he grow older

reflection

the book was really interesting and fun to read we learned a lot of new words.