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Folletto9000 Posted 18 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing

The picture of Dorian Grey (plot)

Hi,

I wrote the plot of this novel, could you correct it, please?

The famous London artist Basil Hallward shows his dear friend Lord Henry Wotton his new painting: a portrait of a young and noble man, named Dorian Grey. Basil is really attracted by Dorian’s charming beauty and considers the youth a gift of inspiration for his art. Lord Henry asks the painter to meet Dorian and Basil; after some hesitation, he agrees. The young man becomes enthralled by Lord Henry’s eloquence and his worldly view. As a new kind of hedonism, according to Lord Henry, the only aims in life are to pursue the beauty and to satisfy one’s own senses. He persuades Dorian not to waste his beauty, but to make use of it and to have any pleasant experience. In fact when Dorian realises that one day his beauty will disappear, he wishes that the portrait painted by Basil would age instead of him. His wish becomes true, in fact he finds out that the portrait’s expression changes and ages for every sin he commits. For eighteen years he experiments every kind of vice, and step by step Dorian loses his innocence, behaving in a bad way. In fact he causes the death of a young talented actress, who had fallen in love with him; he ruins and corrupts a lot of friends and young noble men; he even kills his friend Basil, but his outward appearances remain unchanged. Instead the portrait, now ugly and old, is a sort of mirror of what each sin has upon his soul. At the end, he decides to be really good and to forget the past. He decides to destroy the portrait, and does so in a fit of range by stabbing it. The servants hear his cry and then they call the police, who find the corpse of Dorian suddenly aged and the portrait in its original form. They identify the corpse through the rings on his hand.

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There's not too much wrong with this passage, and the English is of a high standard, but I've made a few corrections, and suggested some stylistic changes to the text. The famous London artist Basil Hallward shows his dear friend Lord Henry Wotton his new painting: a portrait of a young and noble man (or 'young nobleman'), named Dorian Grey. Basil is really attracted by (or 'to') Dorian’s charm ing and beauty, and considers the youth an inspirational gift of inspiration for his art.

  • There's not too much wrong with this passage, and the English is of a high standard, but I've made a few corrections, and suggested some stylistic changes to the text.
  • The famous London artist Basil Hallward shows his dear friend Lord Henry Wotton his new painting: a portrait of a young and noble man (or 'young nobleman'), named Dorian Grey.
  • Basil is really attracted by (or 'to') Dorian’s charm ing and beauty, and considers the youth an inspirational gift of inspiration for his art.
  • Lord Henry asks the painter to meet Dorian and Basil; after some hesitation, he agrees.
  • The young man becomes enthralled by Lord Henry’s eloquence and his worldly view.
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There's not too much wrong with this passage, and the English is of a high standard, but I've made a few corrections, and suggested some stylistic changes to the text.

The famous London artist Basil Hallward shows his dear friend Lord Henry Wotton his new painting: a portrait of a young and noble man (or 'young nobleman'), named Dorian Grey. Basil is really attracted by (or 'to') Dorian’
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Hi yizhivika, thank you a lot for your help!
I wrote another passage about the same novel. Could you check this too?
Main characters
Dorian Grey
He is the protagonist of the novel. He is a young, beautiful and charming nobleman, at the beginning, then old and ugly at his death. He is innocent and pure but after he meets Lord Henry and becomes enthralled in his hedonistic and aes
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Hi, Folletto9000, as requested, I've made a few necessary, and some stylistic, changes to your text:


Main characters

Dorian Grey
He is the protagonist of the novel. At the beginning, Hhe is a young, beautiful and charming nobleman, at the beginning, then becoming old and ugly at the time of his death. Initially, Hhe is innocent
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Hi, I don't want to correct the plot you've written, cause I think that it's all true and as I see your grammer mistakes are already checked, so I just want to express my opinion about the message of this book

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