... to hide 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 in June If it ... were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to ... grow old!" (Wilde 19). From then on, as Dorian ages and ... ...

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... and lowering on a street in which it stands out among thriving, well-kept, and prosperous commercial structures. With its decaying facade and air of neglect, the laboratory quite neatly symbolizes the corrupt and perverse Hyde. Correspondingly, the respectable, prosperous-looking main house symbolizes the respectable, upright Jekyll. ... 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 w...

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