The Picture Of Dorian Gray
(Oscar Wilde)
AbstactOscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian GrayThis is a novel of wit and pathos. It is also a novel about the power or words. Oscar Wilde's anti-hero is a victim of wit, flattery, and persuasion. Dorian Gray is young, high-born, wealthy, and has the appearance of a Greek god. We meet him in the idyllic, sumptuous garden of Basil, a sensitive artist and homosexual who is in love with the young subject he is painting. Basil feels that his portrait of Dorian is really a portrait of his soul, and his passion for Dorian. He refuses to exhibit his painting, even though it is his best work. Impulsively, he gives the finished painting to Dorian. Basil's friend, Lord Henry Wotton, unhappily married and a homosexual rake, seduces Dorian's soul while he covets his body. Up to this point, Dorian is an innocent, a blank canvass upon which Lord Henry works his foul influence. Lord Henry convinces Dorian of his god-like beauty. Once convinced that his youth and beauty are all, Dorian makes a deal with the devil and asks that the painting grow old, while he remains young. Wotton tells him, that with these gifts, the point of his life is to experience everything to the fullest. Qualms and conscience are waste of time, according to Wotton. He hands Dorian a "poisonous" illustrated book that describes a young lords' tasting of all there is; even the 'taste' of murder. As Dorian continues to remain inexplicably young, the portrait of him takes on the stains of his progressively evil behavior. The reader will discover which is victorious; Dorian or the portrait.
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