Narrative technique
• Third-person narrator
• Internal perspective from the point of Dorian
• The settings are vividly described
The typical Dandy
• Dorian thinks man should live his life realising his dreams
• Youth is synonimous with beauty and happines
Allegorical meaning
• The myth of Faust
• The picture is the double of Dorian
• The moral of the novel
• The horrible picture is a symbol of the immorality of the Victorian
middle class
• Dorian’s innocent appearance is the symbol of bourgeois hypocrisy
• Art survives people, art is eternal