No matter what choices you make, whether it is right or wrong, fate is inevitable. Hopefully, in life you make the right decisions. Everyone has a moral compass, you either decide to listen to the good side or the bad. Dorian Gray decided to listen to the bad side. Eventually, a road of bad decisions can take a toll on a person mentally and physically. For Dorian, it only impacted one of those, mentally. Dorian could never enjoy the beauty of life because he was too busy trying to maintain physical beauty and evaluate his own mental health. He learned that if you are physically attractive you have a get out of jail free card.
Beauty is something that is so valuable because it does not last long. Lord Henry knows that this true. …show more content…
On the inside, Dorian is thinking the following, “Besides, even if he did confess, who would believe him? There was no trace of the murdered man anywhere. Everything belonging to him had been destroyed. He himself had burned what had been below-stairs.” Dorian asks Lord Henry if he thinks he could have murdered someone. Lord Henry response is the following, “It is not in you, Dorian, to commit a murder. I am sorry if I hurt your vanity by saying so, but I assure you it is true. Crime belongs exclusively to the lower orders.” Lord Henry thinks Dorian is just a pretty boy who he has took under his wing and is not that bright. So how could Dorian commit a crime like murder? According to the article Are good looks a get-out-of-jail-free card?, “Numerous studies since, reveal that good-looking law-breakers not only get shorter sentences, but they are twice as likely to avoid jail time than their less genetically-advantaged criminal counterparts.” If Dorian was ever to be charged with the crime, he would possibly have gotten a lesser sentence compared to a person that is not so good looking.
Oh Dorian, Oh Dorian, we were all rooting for you. My great-great aunt had a saying, “some people just have bad blood in them.” Dorian is one of those people. The downfall of Dorian Gray is that he could never enjoy the beauty of life because
Beauty is something that is so valuable because it does not last long. Lord Henry knows that this true. …show more content…
On the inside, Dorian is thinking the following, “Besides, even if he did confess, who would believe him? There was no trace of the murdered man anywhere. Everything belonging to him had been destroyed. He himself had burned what had been below-stairs.” Dorian asks Lord Henry if he thinks he could have murdered someone. Lord Henry response is the following, “It is not in you, Dorian, to commit a murder. I am sorry if I hurt your vanity by saying so, but I assure you it is true. Crime belongs exclusively to the lower orders.” Lord Henry thinks Dorian is just a pretty boy who he has took under his wing and is not that bright. So how could Dorian commit a crime like murder? According to the article Are good looks a get-out-of-jail-free card?, “Numerous studies since, reveal that good-looking law-breakers not only get shorter sentences, but they are twice as likely to avoid jail time than their less genetically-advantaged criminal counterparts.” If Dorian was ever to be charged with the crime, he would possibly have gotten a lesser sentence compared to a person that is not so good looking.
Oh Dorian, Oh Dorian, we were all rooting for you. My great-great aunt had a saying, “some people just have bad blood in them.” Dorian is one of those people. The downfall of Dorian Gray is that he could never enjoy the beauty of life because