... who sold his soul to the devil. The book has been criticised from the very beginning for its immorality; the Victorian society did not like how Wilde pictured the life of rich people, that he connected luxury with sin. Like Lord Henry says: ˜Beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich.' (Wilde 92) The Preface in The Picture of Dorian Gray was written as an answer to the critics. It expresses Wilde ... 's aesthetics, states the thought that art cannot be immoral and provokes even more by saying that ˜It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.' A...

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... in ThePicture of Dorian Gray In my essay I am going to examine how appears in The Picture of Dorian Gray the question of "Beauty- and, what is strongly related to it especially at Wilde, the question of art. I refer to some of his former writings especially to The Decay of Lying (In Intentions, 1891) which has a conceptual similarity to the novella. I look into the connection ... between Beauty and another complex aesthetic concept, the concept of Good. I will examine Lord Henry's character as the "Seducer-. One of the main motives of the ... or it may have meaning by expressing non-poss...

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• Grade Level: High School