Dorian Gray Rhetorical Devices

(Rhetorical device/s)This quotation contains imagery that shows how Dorian gray looks like.(S) Lord Henry has never met Dorian gray in his life. According to what his friend Basil tells him about Dorian in the first chapter, he seems like a smart and a handsome young man. Lord Henry, out of curiosity, asks his friend that he wants to meet this guy. Basil, on the other hand, does not want him to meet Gray, he thinks every word that comes out of his mouth has a bad influence on people. Dorian gray waits for Basil in the room where he is seen sitting in front of a piano. That is where he is introduced to Lord Henry for the first time. Lord Henry, looking at him, believes everything Basil told him, he is handsome, he has this special physical feature that makes anyone who meets him for the

There, he meets Lord Henry and they start talking. Basil wants Henry to leave because he knows what will happen if he lets him stay with Dorian, but Dorian insists that he stays because it was boring of him to make a pose for his portrait and not talk to anyone. Dorian finds Lord Henry pretty convincing and becomes interested in what he has to say. He tells him that he is a charming young man and he is unaware about it. He can do a lot better than what he is currently doing. Instead of caring about others, he should be looking after himself because he has no idea about the amount of beauty he possesses. He makes him aware of that in such a way that he feels like his words are acting like poison in his body. It is too much for him to take in. He is stunned because he does not even know Lord Henry as well as Basil but his few words have had more impact on him than Basil ever did. (A) Curiosity has now overtaken Dorian; he wants to know what he is capable of. Lord Henry is the key to that. The beginning of his end has started. His words have triggered the sleeping monster inside of him; a monster that he never knew