Compare and Contrast Dorian Gray the Book and Movie
Compare and Contrast "Dorian Gray" the Book and Movie
There are many comparisons from the book Dorian Gray to the playwright. They are very similar in some ways but also dissimilar as well. They share many qualities and are both very intricately thought through. The differences aren’t quite as present as the similarities but there are some hidden throughout the play.
A similarity that the book and the play share, and the most obvious one, is that Dorian is the main character, who is troubled throughout his life by a curse that was put on him while he is a young boy. Another similarity that the book and the play had in common is that they both are filled with rambling dialogue and nothing else. They both lacked action and excitement, but were both filled with internal drama and conflicting emotions. A third similarity that is present is that the book and the play portrayed the characters in very similar ways. There isn’t much change in the way that the characters are perceived in the book to the play. The book and the play are also alike in that the dialogue was very extensive and hard to follow. There were a lot of times in the book where you would find yourself reading but having a hard and difficult time trying to figure out what the writer was trying to say. This feeling was also present in the play, where the actor or actress would be talking for three or four minutes straight and you wouldn’t have the slightest clue what they were talking about due to the vocabulary and word usage. Another similarity is that the book and the play both followed the same plot and had the same ending. Dorian ends up going insane and tearing up the portrait that was painted of him, and in turn killing himself because the portrait contained his sole.
There aren’t as many differences as there are similarities, but there are a few hidden inconsistently throughout the play. When watching the play I noticed that a lot of the chapters were condensed down into one scene in order to cut time down. Like in the book where Dorian goes insane, it takes up at least four or five chapters and in the play, it was condensed down into one scene. It was kind of confusing, but in a confusing way, it got the...