The Picture of Dorian Gray is an excellent novel about vanity and influenced lifestyle. Dorian gray is a very inflencial perdson and when Lord Henry tellds him how precious his young life is dorian vbegins to worry. He is afraid of growing old. He is having his portrait painted by his good freind Basil Hallway. Dorian wishes that he could remain forvever young and the portrait would grow old. His wish comes true ... to begin with. At te very end of the book Dorian sses what he has done and realizes his ewvil. He wants to change back and thinks that by killing the picxture he will kill his con...

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THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY The Picture of Dorian Gray was a movie that went through the life of a young man. A young man who deceived the world around him through words, actions and lies. A world that ended his life. Aristotle was a Greek philosopher who had a precise definition for the term tragedy. He believed the ideal protagonist in a tragedy contained three distinct characteristics. Dorian Gray (the protagonist) was of some significance, had a character flaw, and his own character flaw inevitably resulted in ... his demise. Dorian Gray was a young man of his twenties. He was well respect...

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In the preface of Oscar Wilde's novel, "The Picture of Dorian Gray", there is a list of many guidelines which he proposes dealing with art and such topics. The first of these items listed is stating that "The artist is the creator of beautiful things." (p 41) . Ironically, in the novel which follows, Wilde does not follow his own guideline, contradicting his own statement. The events which occur as a result of an expression of art, display that an artist is ... not only capable of creating ... ...

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... lies within every person, but this darkness will not surface unless given the correct environment. The darkness, however, can emerge and ultimately destroy the person if not checked by reason. Eventually we find out that both Dorian, from Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Kurtz, from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, are defeated by their darkness and fall prey to its wrath. This theme is very much reflected ... quoted as saying "Evil happens when good men do but nothing" (Encarta "98). The actions that one commits, or omits, can act as a channel in which evil or darkness w...

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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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