The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is the story of moral corruption by the means of aestheticism. In the novel, the well meaning artist Basil Hallward presets young Dorian Gray with a portrait of himself. ... "If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! ... Because Lord Henry is responsible for influencing Dorian Gray, he is partly the cause of the death of Dorian (5810). ... The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel including a moral dialogue between conscience and temptation that is powerfully conveyed. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 1962
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Picture of Dorian Gray is ranked among the most prominent examples of aestheticism in the nineteenth century literature, with its protagonist Dorian Gray and Lord Henry's aesthetic lifestyles. This essay's purpose is an interpretation of the philosophy and ideas of Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray. ... The picture in The picture of Dorian Gray symbolizes at the same time Basil and Dorian's hidden souls. ... His ideas of Art for art's sake, are expressed in the preface of The Picture of Dorian Gray where he argues that : "There is no such thing as a moral o...

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The Picture of Dorian Gray is Wilde's only novel. ... (Wilde 92) The Preface in The Picture of Dorian Gray was written as an answer to the critics. ... What Dorian Gray's sins are no one knows. ... Not just in the Picture of Dorian Gray but also in many other Wilde works we find the topic of double life. ... The Picture of Dorian Gray could be considered not only a novel but also a philosophical work. ...

• Word Count: 1890
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• Grade Level: High School

Society throughout history has influenced people and behavior, in the novel "The Picture of Dorian Grey," by Oscar Wilde we find this most prevalent. ... To the aesthete, the ideal life mimics art; it is beautiful, but quite useless beyond its beauty, concerned only with the individual living it" (Duggan, The Conflict Between Aestheticism and Morality in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray). ... Duggan also explains, "Rather than an advocate for pure aestheticism, then, Dorian Gray is a cautionary tale in which Wilde illustrates the dangers of the aesthetic philosophy ...

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Gray and Faustus" Self-Destruction In the novels Doctor Faustus and Picture of Dorian Gray the authors develop the main characters into showing their downfall in life caused by their self-centered corruption. ... On the surface, Dorian Gray is an example of a typical ideal aristocrat during the time which Oscar Wilde lived in. ... In the novel Portrait of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde emphasizes on the value of innocent beauty and uses Gray as an example of how this beauty can have the power to cause a person to become self-centered. ... Dorian Gray "sold himself to the devil for a pretty ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The relationship between Good and Beauty as well as Life and Art 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. ... In The Picture of Dorian Gray Beauty is connected with Innocence. ... Lord Henry went to the garden and found Dorian Gray burying his face in the great cool lilac-blossoms, feverishly drinking in their perfume as if it had been wine."" ... You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything th...

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• Grade Level: High School

This is quite unusual being that "The Picture of Dorian Gray" centers on the love between a young man and woman). ... Outside, the day may be blue and gold, but the light that creeps down through the thickly-muffled glass of the small iron-barred window beneath which one sits is gray and niggard. ... Most of which comes from Wilde's work The Picture of Dorian Gray. Dorian Gray is often read as an explicit proclamation of the worthiness of living life by aesthetic values. ... In the novel, Lord Henry prompts Dorian to embrace the elegance of said belief. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray" Sibyl Vane, too embodied the characteristic of self-sacrifice, she kills herself because of her love for Dorian Gray. ... Sybil Vane, a character in "The Picture of Dorian Gray" is another memorable character. ... Sybil is a Shakespearean actor, but performs badly because she had lost her inspiration for acting due to her love for Dorian. After seeing her performance, Dorian rejects her. It is at this point that Dorian notices that the painting has changed. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School