Dorians

fate is inevitable. Hopefully, in life you make the right decisions. Everyone has a moral compass, you either decide to listen to the good side or the bad. Dorian Gray decided to listen to the bad side. Eventually, a road of bad decisions can take a toll on a person mentally and physically. For Dorian, it only impacted one of those, mentally. Dorian could never enjoy the beauty of life because he was too busy trying to maintain physical beauty and evaluate his own mental health. He learned that…

Sigmund Freud said, “Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.” Self expression has always been an important part of one's identity and personality. This is a recurring theme in The Picture of Dorian Grey and The Secret Life of Bees in their actions and mental state. When one is unable to express oneself, it heavily affects their mental health and generally causes stress for the person. A well known and relatively simple way to…

Outraged sparked in Los Angeles on March 3, 1991 as a man named Rodney King was severely beaten by Los Angeles Police Department officers. King was involved in a high speed chase along with two other male victims of these brutal police. Bryant Allen was one of the passengers and was manhandled, kicked, stomped on, taunted, and threatened. The other passenger, Freddie Helms, was struck in the head as he lay on the ground harmless. Helms was later treated for a laceration on top of his head…

Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde demonstrates how immoral behavior and obsession with physical appearance can influence man to be monstrous. When one thinks of actual monsters in society they think of immorality, lack of compassion, and lack of remorse. Dorian Gray exhibits these qualities when he begins to believe “beauty conquers all”. This thought along with his obsession with eternal youth and beauty obstruct his true values and morals he once had. As time goes on and Dorian becomes…

assorted methods to entertain the claim whilst exhibiting a diverse cast of characters. The malevolent forces of man require a catalyst of an outside force to materialize, and often is contributed to social pressure by peers. In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dorian was initially innocent until he was consumed by the influence of Lord Henry’s vile nature. The relationship between the two began as an experiment into the psyche of a…

opposed to this as one might think. Comfort is not defined by luxury and process like the carefully designed bedrooms, home décor, and fashions that Wilde conjured up such with loving detail in his writings, most notably The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Grey. However, the influence of famous personalities, works of art, and exemplary athletic and intellectual performance on contemporary style and mass marketing would enthrall Wilde with its possibilities of wide reaching art. However, even…

monstrous” (Wilde 195). Thus, Dorian erases from his mind the values instilled in him by said society - imperfect humans as they are- and begins to live his life according to Lord Henry’s paradoxes unaware of the inconsistency between what he says and does. Lord Henry gives Dorian a book that “for years [Dorian] never sought to free himself from” (Wilde 138). This book represents “Dorian’s own life, written before he had lived it” without a conscience (Wilde 138). Dorian is living by a sort…

The picture of Dorian Gray is the only novel ever to be published by Oscar Wilde. This is a story of depravity, debauchery and acts as somewhat a revolutionary tale. I dived deep into this book rather clueless of what it had in stored for me. Immediately, I was exceedingly entranced by Wilde’s effortless and elegant writing style ,that was always pleasing to the mind and vocally. Every sentence was so utterly perfect that I wished to track every single fragment of Wilde’s creation because it was…

Some of the world’s scariest monsters are not what the typical person perceives them to be. Moreover, in the books Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde the definition of a monster is explored through different characters. Therefore, Shelley and Wilde define a monster like Frankenstein's Creation and Dorian Gray by their actions not their appearances. Shelley’s definition of a monster is what the typical person would think. Big, ugly, scary, and mean those…

Marriage, what everyone used to assume is the the turning point of one’s life, has now become the not so common fantasies girls have. People’s perspectives on marriage and traditional family value have changed a lot. Dorian Solot, the author of “On Not Saying ‘I Do’”, explains her concerns and thoughts on the concept of not getting married for her whole life in her article. She argues that marriage is just what the society uses to judge a person’s status, not what this word used to stand for,…