Wilde succeeds in concluding both his original lecture on art as beautiful reality and his subsequent warning to people not to use their new artistic reality in the same way they used the old. With Dorian dead, the painting returns to its original beautiful state, and Dorian’s household staff find his real withered body unrecognizable because they never saw the painting and they never knew his soul. Dorian Gray was living as the surface of art without the symbol, and when he attacked the symbol, the symbol attacked in return and crushed the surface to
Wilde succeeds in concluding both his original lecture on art as beautiful reality and his subsequent warning to people not to use their new artistic reality in the same way they used the old. With Dorian dead, the painting returns to its original beautiful state, and Dorian’s household staff find his real withered body unrecognizable because they never saw the painting and they never knew his soul. Dorian Gray was living as the surface of art without the symbol, and when he attacked the symbol, the symbol attacked in return and crushed the surface to