Dorian Gray settings

East End
1. Vane home
  1. "shrill intrusive light" - sense of home - light is sibyl - she has a chance of escaping poverty
  2. "dingy sitting-room" - poor and old - contrasts upper class
2. Opium dens
  1. "shabby ulster"
  2. "blurred street lamps looked ghastly" - emotive - conveys a negative image of disgust
  3. "grotesque things" - foul word - sums up the opium dens
  4. Remote derelict section - sordid state of DG's mind - he flees to them after crucial moments - killing Basil - an escape - drug induced state - he leaves his safe house to travel to the dark dens - reflects the degradation of his soul
3. Riverside
4. Theatre
  1. "heat was terribly oppressive" - over crowded - symbolise poor peopl ebeing opressed - hyperbole
  2. shabby
  3. Where DG first sets his eyes on Sibyl
5. "The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ"
  1. Figurative lang - classes are kept distant
West End
1. Dorian's house
  1. Living room - the public place - for show
  2. School room - keeps his deep dark secrets - sins - has a past there - painting is hidden
2. Basil's studio
  1. "rich odour of roses" - connotes beauty, elegance and wealth
  2. "Persian saddle-bags" - expensive - rich in culture
  3. "tussore-silk curtains" - luxurious
  4. Typical wealthy person - lives in luxury unaware of the wider world
3. Lord Henry's house
  1. "luxurious arm chair" - privelleged place to be
  2. "Mayfair" - high end
  3. "carpet strewn with silk" - expensive
Travels
1. Goes to Paris
2. 18 years of sin and corruption
3. Goes on the pursuit of Hedonism - experience new pleasures and sensations

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