Стилистический разбор текста произведения "Портрет Дориана Грея"

    The main idea of the novel is a human soul - cleanliness of soul of the person this the most valuable, it is original beauty of the person...

    Heading of this novel reflects the content of the story, the life and the character of the main hero.

    The chronological frameworks of the novel - second half of XIX centuries. A scene of action - mainly the capital of England.

    Writer has spent the little more than three weeks to write the novel, and it was a unique case when his job has taken away so much time.

    Disturbing atmosphere; philosophical basis of the composition; the ambiguous feelings at least, uniting all characters; but especially - deep perversity of the protagonist have led to the unprecedented scandal and … have provided success to the novel.

    On author's plan,  the doctrine of  aestheticism represents the arch of the indispensable rules, and with their help the reader must to interpret the novel. The laconic preface reminds it to the reader. Twenty five graceful, witty aphorisms are making the preface of this novel.

    "There are no books moral or immoral. There are books well written or written badly. That's all" – is one of the most calling aphorisms in the foreword.

    The artist is not the moralist. The similar propensity of the artist gives rise  to the inexcusable affectation of style.

    The concept of «beautiful" and "beauty" (Wilde writes this word from a capital letter) are put on the uppermost step of values in the preface.

    There is exposing to the checkout not the hero as a personality, psychological type or emblem of one’s activity, but world outlook, ideological program of the hero.

    "Dorian Gray" is an aesthetic novel in the higher sense, not propagandizing the aesthetic, and revealing its dangers.

    By his novel author declares, that the life which is operated just by sensuality, is anarchical and self-destructive.

    The text of the novel shows us: beautifully float on a surface - and you will ugly disappear in depths. The author, glorifying an aestheticism, brings a charge against it.

    Еру manuscript has called the rough criticism, and when it published as a separate edition has generated the whole wave of sharp and obviously unfair attacks. The society appealed to censorship, court and police. The writer answered the critics through newspapers with wit and coolness.

       There are many lexical stylistic devises in this novel. Almost every page show to us different kinds of metaphors, epithets, similes, personifications, antithesis, oxymoron, parallel constructions, repetitions and other…

    The studio was filled with the rich odor of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn - personification

    The gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-colored blossoms of the laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flame-like as theirs - metaphor

    those pallid jade-faced painters - epithet

    the sullen murmur of the bees - personification

    rugged strong face - epithet

    who looks as if he was made of ivory and rose-leaves  - epithet

    he is a brainless, beautiful thing, who should be always here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in summer when we want something to chill our intelligence – antithesis

    he is a brainless, beautiful thing  - oxymoron

    you never say a moral thing, and you never do a wrong thing – parallel construction

    the heavy lilac blooms, with their clustering stars, moved to and fro in the languid air –simile, epithet

    a long thin dragon-fly floated by on its brown gauze wings – simile

    a huge overdressed dowagers – phraseology, metaphor

    she is a peacock in everything but beauty –simile

    hooked noses – metaphor

    a dream of form in days of thought – metaphor

    he defines for me the lines of a fresh school, a school that is to have in itself all the passion of the romantic spirit – repetition

    there is too much of myself in the thing, Harry,--too much of myself - repetition

    have invented a realism that is bestial, an ideality that is void – metaphor, epithet

    I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and the subtleties of certain colors – developed metaphor

    a broken heart – metaphor

    I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day – metaphor

    the wild struggle for existence  - metaphor

    in the silly hope of keeping our place – metaphor

    it is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, and everything priced above its proper value – metaphor

    and Lord Henry struck a light on a dainty silver case, and began to smoke a cigarette with a self-conscious and self-satisfied air, as if he had summed up life in a phrase – metaphor

    he has a simple and a beautiful nature – epithet

    he blue cloud-shadows chased themselves across the grass like swallows – simile

    the words seemed wrung out of him almost against his will – personification

    I am in Lady Agatha's black books at present – idiom

    a funny look of penitence – oxymoron

    finely-curved scarlet lips, his frank blue eyes, his crisp gold hair – epithet

    all the candor of youth was there, as well as all youth's passionate purity - metaphor ,oxymoron

    he had kept himself unspotted from the world – metaphor

    he becomes an echo of some one else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him - developed metaphor

    but their own souls starve, and are naked – hyperbole

    the luxury of a regret – oxymoron

    to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it – metaphor

    it is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also – repetition

    your rose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood – epithet

    memory might stain your cheek with shame – metaphor

    the few words had yet touched some secret chord, that had never been touched before, but that he felt was now vibrating and throbbing to curious pulses - developed metaphor

    Words!  Mere words!  How terrible they were!  How clear, and vivid, and cruel! – repetition, personification

    they seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute - developed metaphor

    life suddenly became fiery-colored to him - metaphor

    it seemed to him that he had been walking in fire – epithet

    he found Dorian Gray burying his face in the great cool lilac-blossoms, feverishly drinking in their perfume as if it had been wine – simile

    nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul – epithet

    his finely-chiseled nostrils quivered, and some hidden nerve shook the scarlet of his lips and left them trembling – personification

    to cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul – metaphor

    you know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know – epithet

    his romantic olive-colored face – simile

    his cool, white, flower-like hands, even, had a curious charm.  They moved, as he spoke, like music, and seemed to have a language of their own – descriptive epithet

    have disclosed to him life's mystery – metaphor

    some day, when you are old and wrinkled and ugly, when thought has seared your forehead with its lines, and passion branded your lips with its hideous fires - developed metaphor

    you will feel it, you will feel it terribly – repetition

    but at least it is not so superficial as Thought.  To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders – epithet

    time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses – metaphor, personification

    the gold of your days – metaphorical epithet

    the world belongs to you for a season – metaphorical epithet

    in a month there will be purple stars on the clematis, and year after year the green night of its leaves will have its purple stars – epithet

    a furry bee - descriptive epithet

    the flower seemed to quiver, and then swayed gently to and fro – personification

    in the slanting beams that streamed through the open door-way the dust danced and was golden.  The heavy scent of the roses seemed to brood over everything – epithet, personification

    his cheeks flushed for a moment with pleasure.  A look of joy came into his eyes – metaphor

    the scarlet would pass away from his lips, and the gold steal from his hair – metaphor

    a sharp pang of pain struck like a knife across him – epithet

    he felt as if a hand of ice had been laid upon his heart – simile

    for this--for this--I would give everything – repetition

    it will mock me some day,--mock me horribly - repetition

    there is nothing in the whole world I would not give – metaphor

    the apricot-colored light of a summer's day in London – epithet

    punctuality is the thief of time – metaphor

    her vague forget-me-not eyes – epithet

    she was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest - developed metaphor

    his dark crescent-shaped eyebrows – epithet

    looking like a bird-of-paradise that had been out in the rain – epithet

    women are a decorative sex – metaphor

    they represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as we men represent the triumph of mind over morals – antithesis

    there was an exquisite poison in the air.  I had a passion for sensations – oxymoron

    Harry, imagine a girl, hardly seventeen years of age, with a little flower-like face, a small Greek head with plaited coils of dark-brown hair, eyes that were violet wells of passion, lips that were like the petals of a rose – metaphor

    a figure like a beer-barrel – simile

    This novel is filled by deep sense. Almost on each page you open for yourself something new - new thought, or new idea which you think over.

    And some invaluable aphorisms of the great Oscar Wild are have something in common with our daily life.

    After perusal "The picture of Dorian Gray" my attitude to life has changed.