Eventually we find out that both Dorian, from Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Kurtz, from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, are defeated by their darkness and fall prey to its wrath. This theme is very much reflected by the books" setting, plot structure and characterization, we all have the potential to be evil because evil exists within all of us. ... For Dorian, this is the ultimate evil act, the desire to rid himself of all moral sense. However, in all fairness, the odds were against Dorian ever since he traded his soul away. ... In The Picture of Dorian Gray, D...

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