The Picture of Dorian Gray Essay

the gruesome painting, which once was beautiful, disgusts Dorian and he rips it apart with the knife he used to kill Basil only to end in his own murder. Through the character of Basil, Wilde finds speech of his own thoughts as he says, “An artist should create beautiful things but should put nothing of his own life into them.” Again, Wilde shows the weakness of an artist that is such. Basil is enchanted by the beauty of Dorian. Dorian seems to him as his utmost inspiration of art. When he paints

Oscar Wilde can be described as the creator archetype. In “The Picture of Dorian Gray: Preface” by Oscar Wilde, Wilde states, “The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.” In other words, Wilde is an artist and he uses figurative language to hide a moral concept in his writing as that is what an artist goal. This shows that Wilde is the creator archetype because the creator’s goal is to realize a vision and Wilde’s goal is to reveal and conceal

Good and evil are in a constant battle between each where ever good exist there is evil right behind it. Evil has been around science the beginning of time, like shadow with light there is evil with good. In both The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and Lord of the Flies by William Golding someone is becoming evil. Everyone possess the ability to be both good and evil but the emotion that surfaces depends on the situations people are placed in. Stressful situations are one-way people become

Deals With the Devil      In the books The Picture of Dorian Gray and Dr. Faustus, both protagonists are lured into the world of evil, but by different forces. Dorian Gray and Dr. Faustus both sell their souls to the devil. However, Dorian Gray deals with the devil unknowingly, and Dr. Faustus conjures the devil. After Dorian sells his soul, he becomes an immoral criminal, and even resorts to murder. After Dr. Faustus sells his soul, he lives frivolously and entertains himself

Homosexuality in Oscar Wilde's Work       "I turned half way around and saw Dorian Gray for the first time. I knew that I had come face to face with someone whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself" (7). During the Victorian era, this was a dangerous quote. The Victorian era was about progress. It was an attempt aimed at cleaning up the society and setting a moral standard. The Victorian era

In the book The Picture of Dorian Gray many different concepts are explored. One of these concepts being the hidden character of man. But not only does it go about the hidden character of man but it also goes about showing the influence certain ideas. Many of these influencing ideas can come from a confidant that the character finds refuge with when talking to them. One of these confidant characters is Henry who greatly influences Dorian Gray. One way that Henry influences Dorian is by giving him

the company of other men. In several of his pieces, such as the play, The Importance of Being Earnest and the novella, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde shows the troubles in male relationships through the characters that he writes about. In the play, he presents a friendship between Algernon and Jack and in the novella, he focuses on a companionship between Basil and Dorian, both showing failed relationships between men. In the two pieces, men find difficulty in maintaining friendships among each

Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray reveal the act of true duality. The characters that deal with are Dr. Jekyll and Dorian Gray, they both desire to become another person as opposed to what they are. Duality has two sides, good or bad, in a person, even though it comes from behavior and decisions. In the strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Stevenson writes about Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as examples of duality. In Dr

In both stories, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, each story utilizes their setting to enhance and create another level of depth that would not be possible without doing so, as well as having an influence on the characters themselves. This is clearly shown in Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde but is more effectively utilized in The Picture of Dorian Gray. Since both stories take place in the Victorian era, the authors were able to draw out aspects from

The book Dorian Gray portrays that your sins always come back to a person, you shouldn’t live your life only for self-pleasure, and beauty always reigns. In the book Dorian realizes that whatever bad thing or sins he has done over the years doesn’t happen to him, it ends up on the picture painted by his friend Basil Howard, who is an artist and friend of Lord Henry Wotton. While Dorian is having a conversation with Lord Henry, a noble man and friend of Basil Howard, Lord Henry says “Hat does it profit