... Stevenson. Similar to the novel, Stevenson was conflicted between the ideals of his Calvinistic upbringing and his love for art, travel, and the unknown. However, as his conclusion reveals, an attempt 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 par...

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... careless; this is my true hour of death Here then I bring the life of that 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 monstrous soul-life, and, without its hideous warnings, he would be at peace. He seized the thing, and stabbed the picture with it- (Wilde: 255) Doubtless, the novel shows tha...

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