1、The Picture of Dorian Gray,Oscar Wilde奥斯卡王尔德,B A C K G R O U N D,Oscar Wilde 1854 1900 was born in Dublin in Ireland . He went to university at Trinity College Dublin and Oxford and then moved to London .As a young man , Wilde was brilliant and eccentric , with his long hair and extravagant clothes
2、.Like his conversation , his plays were full of quick humour , such as : “ Nowadays , people know the price of everything and the value of nothing . ”,He began writing poetry but his most famous works are his plays , especially comedies like.,Salome 1894 ,Lady Windermeres Fan 1892 ,The Importance of
3、 Being Earnest 1895 ,Wildes career was stopped by scandal . He was sent to prison for homosexuality . When he came out of prison , he moved to Paris and died a broken man .The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wildes only novel and it is a brilliant story about moral decadence .,Oscar Wildes tombstone
4、 墓碑 .,There are a lot of tourists kiss on his tombstone ,The artists in memory of Wilde in prison .,Before you star, Read about Oscar Wilde What kind of person was he ?,Oscar Wilde was brilliant and eccentric . His conversation and plays was full of quick humour . He was a famous writer and he has a
5、 lot of famous works ., The story mentions some of the subjucts below . Make adjectives from the nouns .,fear,youth,anger,cruelty,horroy,beauty,death,success,afraid,young,horrific,beautiful,dead,angry,cruel,successful,Reading and Listening,Basil Hayward was a successful artist. He had nearly finishe
6、d a portrait of a very handsome young man called Dorian Gray.,One day a friend of his, Lord Henry Wotton, saw the picture Basil was painting and wanted to meet his young man. A few days later, Lord Henry and Dorian Gray met at Basils house and went for a walk in the garden.“Ah, how lucky you are to
7、be so young. There is nothing in the world as important as youth ! “ said Lord Henry to Dorian.“But time is your enemy.“,They went inside to see the portrait and Dorian looked at his own picture intensely.“I wish I could always stay young and the picture could grow old . Oh, why did you paint this p
8、icture, Basil ? Why should it stay young while I grow old ? I wish the picture could change, and I could stay as I am.“Dorian was beginning to fall in love with his own picture.,A few weeks later, Dorian told Lord Henry that he was in love with an actress, called Sybil Vane . She was seventeen and v
9、ery beautiful.Dorian didnt tell Sybil his name but she called him Prince Charming . He told her that he was in love with her and he wanted to marry her.,Sybils brother was worried about her and this mysterious young man . “If that man harms my sister, Ill kill him .“ he said to a friend . But Sybils
10、 brother was a sailor and had to go off to Australia.,One night, Dorian took his friends to see Sybil acting as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet . She acted badly and after the performance Dorianspoke to Sybil . He was very angry with her . “But how can I pretend to be Juliet now that I know what real lov
11、e is ? “ she said to him.Dorian said that he had loved her because she was a good actress .Now he didnt love her any more and so he left her .,When he got back home Dorian looked at his portrait again . Somehow it was different . The face in the picture now had a cruel smile. Then Dorian remembered
12、his wish. He realised that he had been cruel to Sybil.,Tomorrow he would see her and be good to her and make up for what he had done . But the next day Lord Henry brought Dorian some terrible news.Sybil had killed herself!Lord Henry told him not to worry, that it would have been impossible to marry
13、her anyway - she was just an actress.,When Lord Henry left , Dorian looked at the picture of himself again . He realised that he would stay young and handsome forever and that the face in the picture would become ugly , old and cruleThe years went by, but Dorian Gray stayed youngand handsome . He en
14、joyed all the pleasures there were in life . However, his portrait changed and showed all theterrible secrets of his life . Dorian became more and more obsessed with thepicture as the face in it became old and ugly .,On Dorians thirty - eighth birthday , Basil Hayward , the painter , came to see Dor
15、ian and told him that he was going away to Paris .Basil told him that people were saying terrible things about Dorians life.Dorian decided to show Basil the portrait and to tell him his secret.Basil was horrified when he saw the face and told Dorian to change his life.,Suddenly, Dorian became very a
16、ngry with Basil . He took a knife . and stabbed Basil several times . The next day , Dorian got rid of the body . Nobody would ever miss Basil Hayward . They would think that he had gone to France .,Later that night, Dorian was in a bar talking to two women. One of the women said to him, “Ah, I reme
17、mber you. Youre Prince Charming, arent you ? “ A sailor heard this. It was Sybils brother.He realised that this was the man who had been cruel to his sister eighteen years ago.Dorian was very afraid, but said that it couldnt have been him.,He showed the sailor his face, the face of a young man of tw
18、enty.Then Dorian went away.“I nearly killed that boy,“ said the sailor.“Boy?“ said the woman.“I first met him eighteen years ago, but his face hasnt changed in all that time.“,A week later Dorian was in the country staying with some friends , when he realised that the sailor was following him. He be
19、came very afraid.The next day he went out walking with some of his friends who were shooting.His friend shot at an animal and there was the cry of a man.He had killed the sailor who had been following Dorian.Dorian decided to change his life.,“Maybe if I have a better life, the face in the picturewi
20、ll not be so ugly and horrible.“But when he looked at the portrait it was even moreterrible than before.He decided to destroy the picture.He picked up a knife and stabbed the painting.There was a loud cry and a crash.,The servants were very afraid.They went into the room.On the wall they saw the por
21、trait of Dorian Gray as a young , handsome man.On the floor was a dead man, with a knife in his heart.It was the other Dorian Gray, his face old, ugly and horrible.,Reading and Listening, Are these statements about the story true T or false F ?,1. Basil Hayward painted a portrait of his friend Doria
22、n Gary .2. Dorian made a wish to stay young and for his portrait to become old . 3.Dorian met a beautiful young painter called Sybil Vane and fell in love with her.,4. Sybil killed herself after Dorian left her .5. On his thirsty - eighteen birthday , Dorian killed his friend Basil . 6. When the ser
23、yants found Doriant , his face was oldand horrible7. Sybils brother followed Dorian and shot Dorians friend .8. Dorian finally decided to destory the portrait with an axe ., Read the story again and answerthese questions .,1. Why did Dorian make his wish about the portrait ?2. What happened to his p
24、ortrait after heleft Sybil ? 3. How did his face in the portrait change ?,4. How did Dorian change physically over the years ?5. Why did Dorian kill Basil ?6. Why did the sailor follow Dorian ?7. Why did Dorian decide to destory the portrait ?8. What happended to the portrait in the end ?9. What is the moral to this story ? Do you agree with it ?,That is all ,Thank you !,
