The Picture Of Dorian Gray And A Nymph's Reply To The Shepherd

Jane has gotten used to cruelty and biased behavior towards her average looks, and develops a miserable self-esteem that believes the only possible way to describe her exterior is “plain”. This self-esteem prevents her from even beginning to recognize that anyone could appreciate her or find her beautiful in any manner. The society’s typical reactions and judgments shaped Jane’s self-esteem, and prevented her from receiving equal treatment as that of a beautiful woman.

There is a cliché quote that people say, “Beauty is in the eye of beholder.” But in the essay “The Ugly Truth About Beauty” (1998) Dave Barry argues about how women who spend countless hours on their so called “beauty” whereas men seem not to care. Barry uses juxtaposition and exaggeration to poke fun at men and women behavior and shed light on the harm that the beauty industry is doing. When Barry argues his point of his essay he addresses both genders, but more specifically teenage to middle age men and women, but he writes about it in a humorous and light-hearted manner.

Summary: “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” is Sir Walter Raleigh’s response to a poem written by Christopher Marlowe, “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.” In the Marlowe poem, the shepherd proposes to his beloved by portraying their ideal future together: a life filled with earthly pleasures in a world of eternal spring. Raleigh’s reply, however, debunks the shepherd’s fanciful vision. While Marlowe’s speaker promises nature’s beauty and a litany of gifts, Raleigh’s nymph responds that such promises could only remain valid “if all the world and love were young.” Thus, she introduces the concepts of time and change. In her world, the seasons cause the shepherd’s “shallow rivers”

The Picture of Dorian Gray, a novel laced with sin, treachery, and raging battles of inner conflict, is Oscar Wilde’s sole novel. Considered immoral and scandalous upon publication, the book centers around a young man named Dorian Gray, who does not age or reflect the darkness of his heart outwardly, and instead a portrait of him bears the damage his destructive life wreaks on his soul. However, the meaning of the story extends past the simple fact that Dorian lives a life of immorality—he walks the path that takes him there with his two friends, Basil Hallward and Lord Henry Wotten. The two attempt to guide and influence Dorian throughout the novel in their own ways, and are a vital piece of Dorian’s tale. Basil and Henry act as character foils as well as a symbolic angel and devil for Dorian Gray’s character, and also contribute themes of choosing one’s own fate.

The central message of this work is that society is obsessed with appearances. The point the author is trying to make is beauty should not be the most important trait of a person. In today’s society everything is based on looks, people are more concerned about a person’s outward appearance. People strive to

As a society, we are educated about appearance. About makeup and hair styling products and other things that enhance your looks. Through these things, the message that is portrayed is that unless you are attractive, you are not valuable as those who are. In my photography, I wanted to depict that even though you may be attractive, that attractiveness does not make you happy or fulfilled. Through reading Cyrano De Bergerac, I realized that your worth is determined by your values, Morales, and most importantly, you! If you believe that you do good things and are a good person then you should be truly happy with yourself and not worry about how you look on the outside. In Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand. Cyrano is so distraught over his

The passionate Shepherd to his love is a pastoral poem that focuses on the Shepherd who tries to win the love of his crush ( the Nymph ) by telling her of all the joys and pleasures of nature, the Shepherd also tries to win the Nymph’s love by offering her materialistic items. The Shepherd tells the Nymph that if she comes to be with him then he will do all these wonderful things in nature with her like: “we will sit upon the rocks, seeing Shepherds feed their flocks,”( line 6) “and I will make thee bed of roses. And a thousand fragrant roses.”( line 9) Along with offering the Nymph a bunch of things from nature he also offers her a bunch of materialistic items such as a buckle made of gold,( line sixteen) and a gown made of wool.(line thirteen) The Nymphs turned down the Shepherd’s love, because she says that the items that the Shepherd is offering to her have no long-lasting value. Because all the things that the Shepherd offers to the Nymph are not long lasting their love will not be long lasting either; all of the Shepherds offerings are things in nature that do not have long-lasting value to them; so the Nphm believes that their love will be no different.

Every single book is essentially the same. However, every book is written in a different and unique way. When writing their books, each author borrows from other authors to make their book a masterpiece. Thomas Foster, author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor, explains in great detail the differences between books, but also their connections. Foster writes “There is only one story . . . Whenever anyone puts pen to paper or hands to keyboard . . . They all take from and in return give to the same story” (Foster 185-186). One book that is a part of Foster’s story is Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. In this essay, Thomas Foster’s methods regarding both symbolism and ¬¬¬¬heart disease from his book, How to Read Literature Like a Professor will be discussed and applied to one of Oscar Wilde’s novels. Throughout his novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde uses the portrait of the young protagonist as a symbol of many things, one of them being a mirror. Wilde also uses Gray’s death to not only signify suicide, but his true unhappiness through the stabbing and thus killing of his own soul.

“The Picture of Dorian Gray” Response Journal In the literary masterpiece “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, Oscar Wilde discusses morality and the evolution of ethics when immediate consequences are unenforced. Dorian Gray -- a charming figure said to be built of ivory and rose-leaves, is exposed to Basil Hallward and Lord Henry Wotton, who preaches two extreme ideologies: idealism and hedonism respectively. Wilde depicts Dorian Gray as putty that is readily moulded by its influences. This is especially evident when Dorian’s character is reformed by “the yellow book” (gifted by Lord Henry Wotton) in which a young Parisian boy indulges in anything aesthetically pleasing with no bounds.

Debora B. Schwartz in her article, "Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Comedy" highlights the fact that the major themes which are typically discussed in pastoral poetry include: "love and seduction;… the corruption of the city or court vs. the ‘purity’ of idealized country life…" (par. 2). In the poem, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," the theme of the "'purity' of idealized country life" is explored when the male persona attempts to use words which conjure up images of an paradise which he and his love interest can escape to sexually gratify each other. The male persona entices his love interest to "come live" with him and be his love (l. 1). He desires that he and his lover's "prove" the various "pleasures" that "woods or steepy mountain yields" (ll. 2, 4). This argument is rebuffed by the female persona in the poem, "The Nymph's Reply to Her Husband," when she states the following: "Time drives the flocks from field to fold, /When rivers rage and rocks grow cold" (ll. 5-6). It should be noted that these lines reflect the following lines of Marlowe's poem: "And we will sit upon the rocks, / seeing the shepherds feed their flocks/ by shallow rivers…" (ll. 5-7). The female persona undermines the shepherd's idealization of the countryside and pastoral life since the passage of time, depicted by the seasons, will change the characteristics of these things described so positively by the male persona in Marlowe's poem.

In Oscar Wilde's novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, beauty is depicted as the driving force in the lives of the three main characters, Dorian, Basil and Lord Henry. Dorian, the main character, believes in seizing the day. Basil, the artist, admires all that is beautiful in life. Lord Henry, accredited ones physical appearance to the ability of achieving accomplishments in life. Beauty ordains the fate of Dorian, Basil, and Lord Henry. The novel embodies the relationship of beauty and morality. Beauty is not based on how attractive an object is to everyone, but how attractive it is to one.

Media demonstrates certain beauty standards that women are expected to meet, similar to Dorian Gray’s obsession with youth and beauty to conform to society’s ideals. Dorian Gray idealizes Lord Henry, therefore he is influenced by Lord Henry’s view on his passion for youth. Henry exemplifies that, “ for youth [he] would do anything

Christopher Blake Martinez Mrs. Doorway Shepherd & Nymph Essay 27 September 2017 Comparison and Contrast of The Shepherd & The Nymphs A comparison and contrast of “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” and “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” reveal that these poems both have different viewpoints on love, nature, time and the material world. In this essay, I will be presenting how the Shepherd and the Nymph both have totally different views on love, nature, time and the material world. In the two poems, the shepherd and the nymph both have distinctly opposing views of love. talks about love. The shepherd believes that love will never die. He thinks that love will live forever and will always be pure and young. An example of this is seen in ¨For thy delight each May morning “(line 22.) He is offering his love, and saying that he will always show and prove his love to her. In the ¨Nymph’s reply¨ she says that she doesn’t believe that the shepherd thinks about life and how as life goes on you will lose love for someone, it may be that you love them, but you're not in love with them the life you were when your journey first began. She knows and understands how feelings and love will die out. It shows in ¨If all the world and love were young¨(line 1). In both of the poems, both the shepherd and the nymph have distinctly opposing views of nature. The shepherd loves the nature and how beautiful it is, he believes that nature will always be beautiful. He promises her a bed of roses and a life of enjoying nature to its fullest. He shows this in ¨And we will have the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields. Woods, or steepy mountains yields.¨(lines 1-4). In the ¨nymph’s reply¨ she says how the shepherd may promise all of this from nature, but she understands that nature isn’t always beautiful and nature dies. Things in nature will only last for a little while, then they die and new are born again. She says this in ¨The flowers do fade, and wanton fields¨(line 9). In these poems, the shepherd and the nymph have different views on time. The shepherd thinks that time will never move and time is always going to be good and not ever be a bad time in your life. He shows this in ¨And we will all the pleasures

He was young and beautiful during the time period that Glenn Clifton describes that youth glorification was at its peak of envy and the elderly were viewed as unnecessary (286) and just as described, Lord Henry reveled in the youth of Dorian Gray, in his mind according to Glenn Clifton, great looks and youth were synonymous with living well (285). Dorian Gray loved his looks so much, he loved the attention that he received about something that was inert, he was born with this wonderful talent that could not be duplicated only admired and envied and talked about, his obsession with his beauty reflects the tensions in the Late Victorian conceptions of aging (Clifton 283). He had lived his entire life being at the center of attention, and when Lord Henry planted the seed of knowledge that as soon as Dorian’s looks begin to waver so would his admirers. He was so swept up by the lavish lifestyle of fame and influence that was so rampant around England during that time, although it is exaggerated in the novel, Timothy Peltason writes that Oscar Wilde’s interpretation of British society and their faults are written humorously and slyly (123). Dorian Gray had become so entitled that he does not want to age, he wants to keep his beauty, he wants the portrait that was made in his likeness to age instead of himself, he does not want to bear the ugliness of the aging process (Wilde 29). At first it works, when he pushed Sibyl Vane to suicide, when he lies and the people around him age, he remains beautiful and glorified by everyone around him, they would never suspect someone as pure and innocent looking as Dorian Gray of committing any sin of any kind, everything was working in his favor. Little did they know, that the portrait continued to get more and more hideous, the skin grew sagging and his eyes became cruel, but in the beginning nobody was the wiser, Dorian Gray’s looks deceive people, due to his innocent looks,

There is more to life than beauty, is one of the many themes that are reinforced throughout the novel. Dorian is obsessed with his looks that it gradually wears away at him. He performs actions that are unjust because of it. Dorian’s beauty meant so much to him he thought, “if the picture could change; and I could always be what I am now” that he would be happy forever. While he stays young, the picture ages and gets more hideous as the book progresses. Dorian’s actions are monitored in his, now corrupt, portrait painted by Basil. Since Dorian was obsessed with his beauty, he did not get the most abundant pleasure out of life. Life is full of exciting happenings and your eyes have to be open to see it, unlike Dorian’s, whose were closed. Although he physically does not carry any burden of his actions, his soul