(p. 186-211)
What I like…
A cup of hot
chocolate! I like to sip thick and sweet hot chocolate; and a cup of chocolate
had also opened chapter XIV, when Dorian sipped it calmly from the cup his
valet gave him in the morning after he killed somebody in his house!
What it's all about...
After
committing the murder the night before, Dorian would like to make the corpse
vanished, to scrap all evidence. He asked a chemist help, one of his ex
intimate friends. Allan--the chemist--rejected to help Dorian at first, but
Dorian blackmailed him to do what he wanted, so that he was forced to do it.
Dorian did
not feel anything towards the dead man who once his dear friend. And 24 hours
after that tragedy, he appeared in a party as elegant and calm as usual. Inside
he was in a terrible horror, but outside he was polite and charming. He hardly
touched his dinner, and when Lord Henry occasionally asked him where he were
last night, Dorian began to feel nervous. He went home and destroyed the coat
and bag of the dead man--the last evidence left, then made a night travel by
hansom to unknown destination...
My random thoughts...
It was
always like that when a man's soul corrupted. At first he did a sin and
struggled with it, wondered how can he had done it. After a while he could
convince himself that he had not done something wrong by doing a sin. After
that, he had a strong need to silence his conscience, and he would kill if it
is necessary. After that he would live a double life, always worried that
others might see his sin. Those were the stages, and let's just see where it
will all end for Dorian Gray. A very interesting psychological study that have
suddenly reminded me of Emile Zola's Therese Raquin...
What made me still curious...
What was
Dorian found in the Florentine cabinet that made him shuddered?
What was
Dorian’s threat on Allan that the victim got so scared and finally agreed to
help the murderer vanishing the corpse? Had it been one of his secret?
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