The Picture of Dorian Gray

Home-reading (1^st year)

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Chapter VI

Task 1

Find and write out definitions (from your English-English dictionary). Translate the following words:

1) to bow

2) to be engaged

3) to marry beneath oneself

4) to interfere with/in smth

5) a champion of marriage

6) to credit smb with smth

7) a bond

8) scenery

9) to be a born artist

10) incorrigible

11) to wrong smb

12) a(n) (irrevocable) vow

13) to consist in sth/doing sth

14) remorse

15) a nuisance

16) witty

Task 2

Answer the questions. Find proof in the text.

• What did Dorian’s friends think about his engagement?
• What is the mode of description of the love scene between Dorian and Sibyl?
• Analyse Lord Henry’s remark about official proposals expressed after Dorian’s description of the love scene.
• How does Dorian regard marriage? Does Harry agree?
• In what way do the three friends understand the notion of “pleasure”?
• Study Basil’s train of thoughts at the end of the chapter.

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