Skin Clothing In The Picture Of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde

their makeup, the style of their hair, the designer clothes and the importance of flawless skin. They have been brainwashed into believing that it was their decision to become the person they are today and in all reality it was the lifestyle that they had to adjust to, to ensure their success in the fast paced, demanding industry.
Most celebrates and musicians are an example of this. Getting plastic surgery on parts of their body that they believe will conform them to the societal expectations they lie in. Unfortunately, there have been examples of celebrates that will go even further then plastic surgery. Pop star Michael Jackson and Rapper Lil Kim did something that allowed them to become a lighter complexion. This is called Skin Bleaching, …show more content…
This is what the overall meaning is to the Twenty first century. There is more going on beneath the surface of any individual that believes that the only way to live a happy life is through their beauty then their struggle within themselves that they have adjust to till it comes to a point in their life where beauty isn 't enough and ugliness beneath the surface is revealed. Nassaar states, "In The Picture of Dorian Gray, fate also exist, but it is not external force. Dorian is presented as being predetermined by his personality" (Nassaar "Lord Arthur Savile 's Crime"). The cause of Dorian Gray 's death was a result from the inability to function with the understanding that all those who adored him could never take him serious at the person he was trying to become. Dorian couldn 't stand living with the idea that as long as he lived he could get away with all his wrong doings because of his beauty and also the fact that the portrait, a symbol of his soul, had become a cold, gruesome old man that hid deep within him, a man that held the key to Dorian 's peace and