1. The Aesthetic Ideal In The Picture Of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
... we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence." (Wilde, qtd. in Neill,279) Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, was first published in 1891, but it still continues to fascinate us with its depiction of one of society's overwhelming obsessions - the cult of ... and not life that art really mirrors" and stated that a central point of the book was that "Each man sees his own sin in Dorian Gray". "Dorian Gray is the aesthetic novel par excellence, not in espousing the doctrine, but in exhibiting its dangers-(Ellman 315) Oscar Wilde wrote the tragedy of ...
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