Displaying the fascination of one’s own sins, Oscar Wilde, in his novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, describes Dorian Gray’s obsession with the repelling changes to his portrait. After the feeling of shock and fear due to the negative changes to his personality, Dorian begins to accept his sins. Instead, he is curious to know about how much he changed, and appears to have no regret towards these changes. Although Dorian does not want society to know about his sins, he cannot help but to be captivated by them. The evidence of his hideous self reflected in the portrait becomes the only true representation left of himself. The youth and innocence that others perceive are lies. Ignoring the truth about himself is impossible. Instead, he chooses
