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Dorian Gray Blindness

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While the Biblical element played a major role throughout the novel, blindness also played its part. In protest to this the reader may note that neither Dorian or any of the other characters lack in sight, but the literal blindness is not the one that Thomas C. Foster refers to in Chapter 22 titled “He’s Blind for a Reason, You Know”; within this chapter, Foster alludes to the notion that “when literal blindness, sight, darkness, and light are introduced into a story, it is nearly always the case that figurative seeing and blindness are at work. Here’s the caveat: seeing and blindness are generally at issue in many works, even where there is no hint of blindness…” (212). Based on the acquired information one can conclude that Dorian was in fact blind from the very beginning since he was naïve to the world and the corruption that surrounded him, that is until he met Lord Henry, who …show more content…

The story of Dorian Gray became the inspiration behind a new age of writing, more daring and defying to the point of the notion itself becoming cliché in the public’s eyes, however the beauty of this specific book lies not in the over utilized concept of making a pact with the devil, but in the fact that the plot can be infinitely analyzed and new meanings found within each sentence. There is not an explicit meaning to the novel, yet one can assume that the overview is such that life exists to test those who have been fortunate, or rather unfortunate enough to have been born; no life is perfect, and temptation of sin awaits at every step, yet it is the task of the one being tested to resist unbecoming influence and carve one’s own path, while enjoying things as they come rather than becoming infatuated with ephemeral aspects of existence such as one’s beauty or the lack

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