1. Narcissism in Dorian Gray and Frankenstein
After analyzing both Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, it is quite apparent that Victor Frankenstein and Dorian Gray's narcissism cause much evil, death, and destruction. ... His narcissistic concentrations on his own superficial and materialistic qualities, coupled with the lack of ethics are part of the cause of his evil and destruction (Gillespie, Ethics and Aesthetics in The Picture of Dorian Gray). It may seem that in Wilde's, The Picture of Dorian Gray, there is only one man who causes evil through his narcissistic actions, th...
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