8. Make up a plan of this chapter and outline the events of the chapter in a nut-shell.

OSCAR WILDE. “THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY”

Task 12 CHAPTERS 18-19-20

1. GIVE THE CONTEXT: to have good sport

It can’t be helped

to be tabooed

to be better off than smb.

to talk scandal

to commit a murder/suicide

to take the liberty of …

not to think much of…

to hush up a scandal

2. COMMENT UPON:

-The consciousness of being hunted, tracked down…began to dominate him.

-The mask of youth had saved him.

-Horror seemed to lay its hands upon his heart…It was my debut in life…loathsome in visage…with a note of pathos in his voice.

3. SPEAKING POINTS: 1) Describe Dorian’s state of mind (the beginning of chapter 18.) Say what language means help the author to communicate the painfully nervous atmosphere.

2) Describe the accident during the hunting and its effect on Dorian. How did Lord Henry try to soothe him?

3) How does Dorian’s desire to provide for the victim’s family characterize him?

4) How did Dorian take the news of the dead man’s being a sailor?

5) Was Dorian sincere in his wish to turn a new leaf? Did Lord Henry approve of his renunciation?

6) The two friends’ conversation about Basil Hallward’s possible death.

7) Was the idea to destroy the picture spontaneous or was it formed gradually?

4. TO BE DONE IN CLASS: form the negative, using negative prefixes:

In-accurate in-complete in-distinct

attentive convenient experienced

capable considerate human

cautious correct sensible

rational curable desirable

resolute avoidable

legal hospitable

literate

5. COMMENT UPON: 1….Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

That’s the reason why people who live out of town are absolutely uncivilized…Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain. There are only two ways to reach it. One is by being cultured, the other - by being corrupt. Country people have no opportunity of being either, so they stagnate…

2…All crime is vulgar, just as all vulgarity is a crime… Crime belongs exclusively to the lower orders. I don’t blame them in the smallest degree. I should fancy, that crime was to them what

Art is to us - simply a method of procuring extraordinary emotions…

3. To get back my youth, I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early or be respectable…

4. Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. IT’S SUPERBLY STERILE.

5. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own crime.

6. WHAT DOES THE END OF THE BOOK PRESUPPOSE?