This literary character wanted to remain forever young and retain his extraordinarily good looks. As a result of this wish, his portrait begins to age instead of him and becomes horrid and ugly, reflecting the character’s increasing fall into depravity.
- Angel Clare
- Basil Halward
- Dorian Gray
- Henry Wotton
Answer
The correct answer is C) Dorian Gray.
More General Knowledge questions
- This teenage literary hero, living in 1950s New York, thinks that people around him are ‘phonies’. His dream is to be the person who keeps children from falling off a cliff.
- This fictional character created by Jack Kerouac embodies the values of the ‘Beat Generation’. He is liberated, hedonistic, intense and dazzlingly unpredictable. He constantly travels round the USA in search of joyful adventure.
- This fictional hero teaches his two children, Scout and Jem, that it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird, since the only thing mocking birds do is sing their hearts for people to enjoy.
- This literary character is the gamekeeper, who helps Constance Chatterley experience a sexual awakening.
- This fictional character is a World War II flier, stationed on the island of Pianosa, in the Mediterranean. He thinks that everyone wants to kill him. He wants to go home, but he cannot get out of combat duty, because there is a ‘catch’.
- The rivalry between these fictional twin-brothers, born in the Salinas Valley in the Trask family, resembles the relationship of the biblical characters, Cain and Abel.