The Picture of Dorian Gray

Home-reading (1^st year)

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Chapter II

Task 1

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

a) petulant (manner)

b) to catch sight of sb.

c) capital (sitter)

d) to be devoted to sb.

e) (finely-) curved (lips)

f) to worship

g) a martyr

h) to take a fancy to sb.

i) to gain an impulse

j) to mar (one’s life)

k) to yield to (a temptation)

l) to bewilder

m) subtle (magic, smile)

n) to bury

o) to alter

p) to fling oneself on(to)/into

q) to quiver

r) to mock at sb.

Task 2

Answer the questions. Find proof in the text.

a) Describe Dorian as seen by Lord Henry in detail.

b) Speak about Henry’s cynical words and the effect they produced on Dorian.

c) What was Dorian Gray’s main wish when he saw the picture? How greatly did he change?

Task 3

Find these parts in the text. Read and translate the extracts.

a) From “Lord Henry looked at him…” to “No wonder Basil Hallward worshiped him.”

b) From “Because to influence a person is to give him one’s own soul…” to “these is the two things that govern us. And yet – ”

c) From “We are punished for our refusals…” to “The only way to get rid of a temptation are to yield to it.”

d) From “Because you have the most marvelous youth, and youth is the only thing worth having…” to “And Beauty is a form of Genius – is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation.”

e) From “To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders…” to “…that the memory of our past will make more bitter than defeats.”

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