... serve other purpose except to describe beauty. In this novel, he not only exclaimed that art was not a function of morality but also disclosed the decay of the Victoria society. To support this idea, first of all, I will make an overview of the story. At the beginning, Basil painted a portrait of Dorian Gray and sent it to him as a gift. The picture showed the youth and purity ... of the young man. However, Dorian began to follow a life of new hedonism mentioned by Lord Henry. His life betrayed and the change of his soul reflected on the portrait ... paragraph. Some people use Freud's ...

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