... superego to analyze the novel. Of course, Dorian is id, Henry is ego and Basil is superego. However, this kind of analysis was too simple to explain the complex humanity and was easy to separate readers' attention. So, I'll focus on the main character, Dorian, to make the point clear. On the other hand, the exchange and conflicts between the "ego"(Henry) and the "superego"(Basil) ... also happened to him. Compared with the other characters in the book, Dorian was created as a container ... cruelty, that indulge Dorian's downfall in an "eternal youth, infinite passion, pleasures subtle a...

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... seem stronger than themselves, and that they are conscious of sharing with the less highly organized forms of existence. But it appeared to Dorian Gray that the true nature of the senses had never been understood, and that they had remained savage and animal merely because the world had sought to starve them into submission or to kill them by pain, instead of aiming at ... ; Nature, in her wonderful irony, driving out the anchorite to feed with the wild animals of the desert and giving to the hermit the beasts of the field as his companions. Although the wicked is described in the novel ...

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