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CHAPTER FIVE
Dorian se vuelve andando a casa, cuando llega mira el retrato y le encuentra algo diferente, hay
arrugas alrededor de la boca y él en la realidad no las tiene. Recuerda las palabras que dijo cuando
Basil le dio el cuadro, y es lo que está pasando que el cuadro está envejeciendo y cambiando en vez de
él.
Cuando está en casa se arrepiente un poco de lo que le dijo a Sibyl, decide escribirle por la mañana
para decirle que lo siente, cree que estando con ella será una buena persona y que Lord Henry es una
mala influencia para él. Coge un trapo y tapa el retrato porque no lo quiere ver más. Se queda dormido
pensando en Sibyl. A la mañana siguiente cuando se despierta, su criado le lleva el té y una carta de
Henry que llegó temprano esa mañana. Mira el cuadro y ve que tiene el mismo aspecto cruel que la
noche anterior.
Decide escribirle una carta de perdón a Sibyl antes de leer la de Henry. En la carta le pide perdón y
que se case con él.
CHAPTER SIX
Antes de enviar la carta Lord Henry llega a casa de Dorian para contarle que Sibyl está muerta y que
va a haber una investigación. Sibyl tomó veneno y otra actriz la encontró en el suelo de su camerino.
Dorian dice que ha sido por su culpa, Henry le dice que no debe sentirse mal porque Sibyl era estúpida,
joven, débil y que no sabía nada de la vida, que lo que tiene que hacer es olvidarla y disfrutar de la
vida.
Dorian cree a Henry y dice que Sibyl se comportó como una niña. Decide ir a cenar y al teatro con
Henry.
Cuando Henry se va y Dorian vuelve a mirar el retrato, estaba igual que la noche anterior, con un
aspecto cruel y arrugas.
Dorian cree que Henry le causa una mala influencia.
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CHAPTER SEVEN EL VIEJO ESTUDIO DE DORIAN
Basil va a ver cómo está Dorian, y se enfada mucho con él cuando le dice que no ha ido a ver a la madre
de Sibyl que ha ido al teatro con Henry. Le dice que no tiene corazón. Dorian le dice que es joven y
guapo y que tiene que disfrutar de la vida. Después de un rato se le pasa el enfado y le pide el retrato
para una exhibición en París. Dorian le dice que no se lo deja porque el retrato es suyo y no quiere que
nadie más lo vea. Basil cree que se está comportando así a causa de la muerte de Sibyl.
Cuando Basil se va, Dorian decide esconder el retrato en el piso de arriba, en el viejo estudio, cuando
le pide la llave a su criado este le dice que el estudio está muy sucio y no tiene luz, pero al final le da la
llave. Ahora sólo necesita dos hombres fuertes para que le lleven el retrato al viejo estudio. Los
criados no pueden ser porque si no se enterarían, asique decide escribirle una carta a Lord Henry para
que el criado se la lleve y esté fuera de la casa al menos una hora. Después le manda a los
trabajadores que lleven el cuadro al viejo estudio, cuando se van el cierra la puerta con llave y la pone
en un lugar seguro para que nadie más pueda entrar en el estudio y ver el cuadro.
DORIAN GRAY
He is the main of the book. He is only 19 years old, he is very innocent and doesn´t know anything about life. His father was
a soldier who died in a duel and his mother was Lady Margaret, she belonged to a rich family but she fall in love with a poor
soldier and run away to marry him.
At first Dorian wasn´t a bad man but when he meets Lord Henry, his life changes forever. He goes out with Lord Henry to
drink and he loses his old friends, like Basil.
He falls in love with Sibyl when he sees her acting in the theatre, she is a very good actress, he asks her to marry him, but
when he goes to the theatre with his friends, Dorian gets angry with her and tells her that he won´t marry her, he only
loved her because she was a marvelous actress. He tells her that she is nothing and she is just ordinary. When he leaves the
room, she is very sad and can’t stop crying.
He wants to be young and handsome forever.
LORD HENRY
He is forty years old. He thinks that he knows everything about life because he travels a lot and enjoys life.
He has a cynical philosophy of life. He is a bad influence on Dorian. Pleasure is the only thing important in his life. He laughs
at everything.
BASIL HALLWARD
He is an artist. He painted Dorian’s portrait. He is Dorian’s friend. He doesn´t want Lord Henry to be Dorian’s friend,
because Dorian is very innocent. He knows that Lord Henry is a bad influence but he can’t do anything.
SIBYL VANE
She is a beautiful young actress. Dorian is in love with her. Her family is poor, he only has his mother and his brother whose
name is James. She meets Dorian and she is in love with him, but one night when he is in the theatre with his friends she
performs badly because she says that now she knows the real word. Dorian doesn’t want to marry her after that, and she
commits suicide. She takes some poison.
LORD FERMOR
He is Lord Henry’s uncle, He is rich and he knows all the aristocratic families in London. He tells Lord Henry about Dorian’s
grandfather, Lord Kelso, and mother, Lady Margaret. Lady Margaret was a beautiful rich woman, she falls in love with a
soldier, her family is angry with her and she marries secretly the soldier. They had a baby who is Dorian. Later the soldier
dies in a duel and Lady Margaret dies a few months later, Dorian has to live with his grandfather until he dies. After that he
finishes his studies in London.
JAMES VANE
He is Sibyl’s brother. He is only 16 but he was going to Australia to get money and help his family. Before going to Autralia
he told his sister that if Dorian hurt her, he would kill him. He didn’t know Dorian’s real name. He calls him Prince Charming.
ALAN CAMPBELL
He is the scientist who destroys Basil’s body and commits suicide after that. Ten years ago he was Dorian’s friend.
At first he didn’t want to destroy the body but Dorian told him that he knew something very bad about his past and he had
to do it. He used some chemicals to make the body disappear.
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VOCABULARY
ALIVE LINES
ANGER LOCKED
AUDIENCE ORDINARY
BECOME OLD PAINTER’S KNIFE
BEHAVE PERFORMANCE
BURN PLAY
CARRIAGE POISON
CHARMING PORTRAIT
CHEMICALS PRAY
CHEMICALS REMOVE
COAT RINGS
CRY SAILOR
CYNICAL SHOCKED
DEAD SHOCKED
DIDN’T CARE ABOUT SHOOTING PARTY
DISAPPOINTED STABBED
DRESSING ROOM STRENGTH
EVIL SUDDEN
FALL IN LOVE SUDDEN FURY
FEEL SAFE THANK HEAVENS
GROUND TRUTH
HIDE UNHAPPINESS
HURT UNLOCKED
I’LL TAKE CARE OF BOTH OF YOU UPSTAIRS
INTRODUCED WEAK
LIFE WISH
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THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
ENGLISH SUMMARY
This is the story of Dorian Gray, He is a handsome young innocent man with bright blue eyes and curly brown hair. He has a
good friend called Basil, who is an artist. He is painting a portrait of Dorian.
One day while Basil is painting the picture, Dorian meets Lord Henry. Dorian loves his adventures and wants to be like him
although Basil is a bit angry because he knows that Lord Henry is going to cause a bad influence on him.
After that Lord Henry and Dorian become good friends and start going out with him to drink every night.
When Basil finishes his portrait, Dorian is sad because he thinks that the man in the picture is going to be young and
handsome forever and he is going to get older and uglier.
He makes a wish, he wishes the picture to become older instead of him. Dorian puts the picture on the wall of his study with
a cloth over it.
Sibyl belongs to a poor family, she has no father, her mother is poor and his brother, who is only sixteen, is going to
Australia to earn money and help his family. Before going to Australia, he tells his sister that if Prince Charming hurts her,
he will kill him.
Dorian falls in love with Sybil, who is acting very well at Romeo and Juliet’s play. Dorian asks her to marry him but after
going to the theatre with Basil and Lord Henry and watching Sibyl acting badly, he doesn´t want her any more, she tells him
that he isn’t in love with her and goes home.
Dorian’s portrait starts to be evil and ugly with lines on his mouth, Dorian puts the portrait on an old study and put a cloth
over it because he doesn´t like it.
Dorian blames Basil for everything and kills him stabling a knife in his neck.
James, Sibyl’s brother, wants to kill Dorian, He tries it twice, and the second time there is an accident in the shooting
party, and someone shoots him while he is hidden among the bushes.
Dorian is unhappy when he realizes what has happened and he wants to be a good man again. When he goes to his old study
and he sees that the pictures is ugly and evil, he stabbed a knife in the picture’s heart and he falls on the ground dead, the
servants heard a cry and and they find Dorian dead on the floor, at first they don’t recognize him, but later they recognize
him for the rings on his fingers.