Dorians

While reading The Picture of Dorian Gray first thing that came into my mind is how shallow and vain someone can be, and at the same time pretend everything is normal. Dorian Gray, the protagonist of the novel is exactly that: self-loving, egotistic young man who is not capable of making out good from evil. Maybe it would be more proper to say that he does not want to acknowledge his misbehaviour even though he is aware of it. This corrupt demeanor of his naturally brings out immorality in all…

In the preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wide writes: “It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors”. Discuss this statement with close reference to the text. Introduction The quote, “It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors,” is a case in point of Dorian Gray’s portrait. Dorian’s image reflects his inner self, and mirrors his soul. The Picture of Dorian Gray highlights the idea of aestheticism and challenges influence of art over an individual instead…

Fatal transgression: Dorian Gray as a symbol of symbolic insupportability Presented with the task of understanding socially constructed self in The Picture of Dorian Gray, it is virtually impossible to evade the questions of gender and sexuality. In the years since its publication, Dorian Gray’s depictions of homoeroticism have garnered much speculation, controversy, and reinterpretation. The aim of this paper is to address commentary on constructions of normative gender behavior, and how…

reads as an archetype of unadulterated gay love” (3). While there is a clear sense of queer character as monster in the two vampire novels, The Picture of Dorian Gray is more complex in that the novel deals with a sort of love triangle, where two opposing forces seek to seduce and attain the attention of a young…

In my part of the podcast I will be arguing that Dorian Gray is victim of childhood trauma in the Picture of Dorian Gray. In “Exposure to Interparental Violence and Psychosocial Maladjustment in the Adult Life Course: Advocacy for Early Prevention”, it is argued that what people experience in their childhood impacts their actions and psychological mindset in the future. The article lists various negative outcomes from a study that could occur from interparental violence and says that children…

Looking back to the colonies where they’ve sent those women who didn’t have the ability to fertilize a new born leads to societal conflicts seen today. The novel explains the deception of women’s maternal body have become conspired against forces. Dorian Cirrone article suggest that to limit the number of people born with specific ethnic groups by controlling the reproductive capacity and activity of women. These range from forced sterilization to the massive mobilization of birth control…

beginning, Dorian Gray seems to be a somewhat aloof character, who is unaware of his beautiful looks and simply living his youthful and naive life. Lord Henry even goes as far to describe him as a young Adonis, with a rugged strong face and coal-black hair, whose personality is likened to Narcissus. Nevertheless, when this whisper of influence from Lord Henry is introduced to him, Dorian recognizes the emptiness in his life. The cunning manipulation of Lord Henry starts of by highlighting to…

Oscar Wilde's Aesthetic Gothic: Walter Pater, Dark Enlightenment, and The Picture Of Dorian Gray Main Thesis Wilde uses several echoes within The Picture of Dorian Gray. This central argument is supported by several examples of Dorian Gray acting as double to not only several characters within the novel but within mythology as well. Wilde merges the Gothic and the aesthetic in the book. “The merger is possible, and inevitable, because of the tendency of Gothic writing to present a fantastic…

of Dorian gray, Dorian is absorbed by his youthful self permanently, this leads to a decay in his social and physical life. Taking a character like Dorian Gray exhibits the types of characteristics a person might have when trying to control their natural age and personality in life. The beginning of the story gives a clear cut picture to what Dorian Grays view…

The novel also carries gothic elements in it. Dorian lives enslaved to the terror of seeing his picture, because it showed the grotesque sins that Dorian had committed against others. On the "horror" side, there are the grotesque descriptions of the portrait, the terrible murder and consequent disappearance of Basil Hallward, and the general loathsome factor of the opium den and, of course, the dramatic ending of the novel with the death of protagonist. This means that his fate has been sealed:…