Dorian Gray Good Vs Evil

All people are born with the capability to commit evil but are taught right from wrong but learned to suppress these emotions because of what society has decided to be good or bad. No one person is completely void of the ability to be evil, but most people can separate good deeds from bad ones because of what they learned from those who have influenced them the most as well as well as their experiences that have molded them into who they are as a person. This awareness of right and wrong is what most people call morality and morality is something created by man to keep the peace between people with different views/ideas. These views of morality and doing what is good have been the roots of many religions.
The reason why man survived and was able to evolve was that they put their needs about others always. The old English idiom “Every man for himself, …show more content…
To further this idea one could even say that as long as it is beneficial to oneself that it is a good deed. This idea is obviously not true because of the concept of morality but to survive at the beginning of humanity this was what people had to think. In The Picture of Dorian Grey the main character Dorian, for example, was born with the ability to commit evil, but because of his circumstances, the crimes he commits are untethered by the sense that most people have that that he is doing is wrong and should be avoided. Dorian was not influenced as a child and because of this is easily influenced by Lord Henry to do immoral things and find pleasure in doing so. By acting immorally and being evil in his actions, Dorian shows that he is doing this not because he was taught to be evil but because of what Lord Henry