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. ... The power of greed and selfishness take over Dorian and Kurtz to create an ugly evil side to them. ... 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, Dorian omits to aspects of his life that lead him deeper into the d...

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