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Yusuf Ghozali

Comparison Of two Novel

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Comparing Item

Novel The Picture Of Dorian Gray

Bristol Murder

1.

Biography

Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin, ireland in 1854. He died in Paris 1900. Many of the stories, plays and poems that Oscar Wilde wrote are still popular. Stories : The Picture of Dorian Gray, Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime, and Other Sories, The happy Prince and Other Tales. Plays : Lady windermere’s Fan, A Women of No Impotance, An Ideal Husand, The Importance of Being Earnest. Poem and Essays : The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Ravenna, De Profundis.

Philip Prowse (born 1937) is a stage director and designer, and was one of the triumvirate of directors at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow from 1970 until 2004.

Philip Prowse was trained at the Slade School of Art and since 1970 was a co-director of the Citizens Company with Giles Havergal and Robert David MacDonald, having previously worked with Havergal at the Watford Palace Theatre. In 2003 both Havergal and MacDonald stepped down from their posts as directors of the company. Prowse however, continued his role as artistic collaborator with newly appointed Artistic Director, Jeremy Raison, until 2004. He directed and designed over 70 plays with the Citizens Theatre and has worked throughout the world designing and directing for opera, ballet and drama.

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Point of The story

The novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty and becomes infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil's, and becomes enthralled by Lord Henry's world view. Espousing a new hedonism, Lord Henry suggests the only things worth pursuing in life are beauty and fulfilment of the senses. Realizing that one day his beauty will fade, Dorian (whimsically) expresses a desire to sell his soul to ensure the portrait Basil has painted would age rather than he. Dorian's wish is fulfilled, and when he subsequently pursues a life of debauchery, 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.

Peter, a long-distance lorry driver, gives. A lift to a 16 years old hitch-hiker outside Bristol. As the boy confides in him, peter discovers that John has run away from home after aviolent row with his uncle. The police are making a nationwide search for John. John Uncle has been found dead and the police want to question the boy.

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Language Use

Elementary, Because the language that used in this novel is very simple and easy to understood by the readers. 

Intermediate, Because the language that used in this novel is harder to understood. Most of the words that used are words of literature.

4.

Moral value

hedonism for the sake of hedonism is empty. Further, Wilde imparts that hedonism and narcissism lead to the worst decay of the soul - the center of the being. While beauty is used as an allure, the facade crumbles at the acts for which beauty is leveraged to obtain. Near the end, Dorian realizes the emptiness of pure pleasure by recalling his first love. He then tries to find absolution and true love in a vicar's daughter. But, it is too late. His empty pleasures and cruel callousness have scarred his soul forever. so we can conclude that physical beauty or good looks is not everything in life.

From this novel, we can learn if we shouldn’t judge anyone without the proof, and we should find the truth to make everything is clear.