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Soft stories and poetry wrapped in soothing sounds to help you unwind and drift off to sleep. In this episode, soft-spoken commentary of chapters 1-8 of The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, by the fire.

00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:23 - The dreamy world of Dorian Gray
00:03:39 - On Basil’s “sudden disappearance”
00:04:49 - The themes of art, beauty, and vanity
00:06:37 - Aestheticism in Dorian Gray
00:12:07 - Harry’s epigrams and paradoxes
00:14:46 - Beauty according to Harry and Basil
00:16:33 - On Dorian’s character and Harry’s influence
00:21:11 - On Harry’s character and believing everything he says
00:23:38 - Dorian and Sybil Vane
00:24:04 - Misogyny in Dorian Gray
00:25:07 - The problematic portrayal of Mr. Isaacs
00:29:49 - Ugliness in Dorian Gray
00:33:13 - Sybil’s inner world as a mirror of Dorian’s character arc
00:36:40 - Dorian’s cruelty unleashed
00:43:07 - Dorian’s choice
00:43:43 - Outro

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Link to Christopher S. Nassaar's essay: https://victorianweb.org/authors/wild...

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