1. Imprisonment; before and after Medeia Dźaparidze
Oscar Wilde
Imprisonment; before and after
Medeia Dźaparidze

2. Oscar and Bosie Lord Alfred Douglas
“The most chivalrous friend in the world"
From Wilde´s letter: "It is a marvel that those red-roseleaf lips of yours should be made no less for the madness of music and song than for the madness of kissing, your slim gilt soul walks between passion and poetry.“
The Marquis of Queensberry

3. Imprisonment May 25, 1895 "hard labour, hard fare and a hard bed"
Bankruptcy
In 1896 lost legal custody of his children Wandsworth
Pentoville

4. Realesing
19 May 1897
Sebastian Melmoth (after Saint Sebastian, and the titular character of Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin)
“The Ballad of Reading Gaol”, “An Ideal Husband”, “The Importance of Being Earnest“
"This poverty really breaks one's heart: it is so sale, so utterly depressing, so hopeless. Pray do what you can."

5. Death
Death
30 November 1900
Cimetière de Bagneux, later Père Lachaise Cemetery
“And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn.”
The tomb in Père Lachaise Cemetery

6. The Picture of Dorian Gray

7. About the Book The only published novel. Lippncott´s Monthly Magazine
20 June
The amended version –
Ward, Lock, adn Company
April 1891.
Brought him more lasting recognition.

8. The Main Characters Dorian Gray Basil Hallward
Lord Henry (Harry) Wotton
Oscar Wilde: "Basil Hallward
is what I think I am: Lord Henry is
what the world thinks me: Dorian
is what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps."

9. Dorian Gray the archetype of male youth and beauty
always young, always cursed

10. Basil Hallward the painter, infatuated with Dorian´s beauty
in love with Dorian

11. Lord Henry (Harry) Wotton
a cynical nobelman, self-proclaimed hedonist
possessed of “wrong, fascinating, poisonous, delightful theories.”
Dorian falls under
his spell completely
himself fails to realize the
implications of most of
what he says.

12. The story
The novel begins with Lord Henry surveying Basil Hallward painting the portrait of a good looking man named Dorian Gray. Dorian arrives later and meets Wotton. After hearing Lord Henry's world view, Dorian falls under his spell so completely and begins to think that beauty is the only worthwhile aspect of life, the only thing left to pursue. Realizing that one day his beauty will fade, Dorian enunciates his wish to sell his soul to ensure the portrait Basil has painted would age rather than himself. Dorian's wish is fulfilled. Under the influence of Lord Henry, Dorian begins to live licentious life. At the same time, the portrait serves as a reminder of the effect each act has upon his soul, with each sin displayed as a disfigurement of his form, or through a sign of aging.

13. Thrailler 2009

14. The End