... Art for art's sake, are expressed in the preface of The Picture of Dorian Gray where he argues that : "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all All art is quite useless" (Wilde, Preface). However, there are some similarities between Wilde and the great Matthew Arnold ... who is able to differentiate his soul from his body, expresses something that he has not believed in during his whole life, allowing art to be 'a moral beacon that guides character' (Sanyal, 2010). Thus, Dorian illustrates the fact that although Wil...

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