... one's true self only results in destruction. Another text that deals with the concept of acquiring immortality is Oscar Wilde's novel A Picture of Dorian Gray. In the novel, an artist, Basil Hallward paints a picture of the young Adonis, Dorian Gray who wishes to remain young and beautiful forever. "But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day ... these years he led an increasingly double life, which ended in his imprisonment in 1895" (Gale Literary Databases). His secret life leaves room for the comparison between Wilde and Dorian himself. ...

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... unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end ( Stevenson: 88) Thus, finally, Jekyll does end his own life, knowing that to destroy hyde, he must also destroy himself, just as Dorian, in The picture of Dorian Gray, had to destroy the picture to be at peace. " ( the knife) it would kill the past, and when that was dead he would be free. I would kill the ... ...

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