Dorian Gray syndrome

Patrick Duggan once wrote, "Dorian lives according to what Lord Henry professes without hesitation, and how Lord Henry inspires Dorian." Duggan explains how Dorian Gray values Lord Henry's philosophy over anything else. In the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde analyzes the power of negative influences through the impact that Lord Henry's philosophy had on Dorian Gray, how Dorian Gray's character drastically changed over time, and how this negativity affected Dorian Gray's…

In “The Painter of Modern Life,” Charles Baudelaire gives his definition and explanation about the true beauty of art. In the first section “Beauty, Fashion, and Happiness,” Baudelaire shows his concern about the “present” in the painting because he thought that the beauty of the art is “its essential quality of being present” (p.1). In the following passage, Baudelaire uses a lot of words to praise a man named as “Monsieur G” in the essay. He describes Monsieur G, just like the title of this…

other people, society or oneself. This message is reiterated many times within the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray written by…

novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, the main character, Dorian Gray, turns towards a life of sin that ultimately leads to his death. These actions were influenced greatly by Lord Henry. Although Dorian cannot be without blame as he made the final decision of each action, Lord Henry can be considered the antagonist in this novel as he influences Dorian’s dreadful sins, and succeeds in making Dorian live his life for art and forget moral responsibility. When Dorian meets Lord Henry,…

Based on the playwrite “The Picture of Dorian Gray” and “The Picture of Dorian Gray: Preface” both by Oscar Wilde, it could be inferred that the author fits under The Sage archetype because of the tone of the text, and the morals of the texts. To illustrate how the author fits under The Sage archetype because of the tone of the text is when “The Picture of Dorian Gray: Preface” by Oscar Wilde says, “We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse…

How does Oscar Wilde use the central character of Dorian Gray to create supernatural effects in the PODG ? Something that must be established, to understand the supernatural in a PODG is the contrast between a material objects and a living organism. Its key due to the fact Dorian begins in the play living as a living thing, however in some respects he becomes a material object after “selling his soul”. Dorian fails to comprehend the concept of ageing and it angers him that his painting will…

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a creation of Oscar Wilde’s consciousness and unconsciousness and consequently exposes his dissociative identity disorder, or multiple personality. This novel is by all means "a well-written book" known not only for its attractive plot, the…

monster lies within a person’s soul. In both Frankenstein and The Picture of Dorian Gray, both authors, Mary Shelley and Oscar Wilde, use their novels to express the fallacy of external appearances and the corruption of human…

Analysis of the Major Conflict in Chapter Twenty of The Picture of Dorian Gray Among numerous of conflicts in the novel that involves the protagonist, Dorian Gray, the most important and crucial one ceases in the last chapter. Many analyze the conflict only on the superficial level and view it as the struggle between Dorian and his decaying Portrait. However, I found that the conflict could be interpreted more deeply and it actually contains multiple level of concepts that the author wants to…

literature, the utilization of horror vacui elucidates the human desire to maintain a grasp on the material world in times of adversity or turbulence. In Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, Sarah Waters’s The Night Watch, and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, this fear of existential emptiness is manifested into the characters’ own materialist strategies to cope with it. Whether it be through the accumulation of memories and social clout, physical tokens from the past, or knowledge and…