The Picture of Dorian Gray

get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, and be respectable.” (Lord Henry in The Picture of Dorian Gray). This is a light-hearted and humorous musing of the appeal to be young again, which summarizes the hedonistic worldview of Lord Henry in The Picture of Dorian Gray that may ring true to others. The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel that is set in Victorian era London; a society in which appearance and wealth are held at an extremely high value.…

through his controversial works. His writing has inspired and influenced many through his commentary on his society and the shallow nature of people, while also being considered a martyr for the homosexual movement. His most notorious work, The Picture of Dorian Gray, is often regarded as a reflection of his life, homosexuality, and his religious upbringing. Wilde used the novel and its characters to mock Victorian ideals of art and society and its need for a purpose. Wilde also exaggerated the…

The Picture of Dorian Gray The Picture of Dorian Gray, written by Oscar Wilde surrounds the vicious repetitive actions performed by Dorian Gray himself. Some might consider Dorian Gray as a murder, and that he is the reason for the death and/or suicide of any person who is affiliated with him. Throughout the novel, it is clear to see that all relationships connected with Dorian Gray end brutally and fatally. The first victim of Dorian’s vicious mind games was also his first truelove, Sibyl Vane,…

by the phrase ‘art for art’s sake’. In 1890, he published The Picture of Dorian Gray in Lippincott’s Magazine which interesting falls in moral as well as fantasy category. His only novel which was panned as immoral by Victorian critics, but is now considered one of his most notable works. As he gained…

Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ and Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ both divulge into the theme of faith and doubt. The presentation of faith differs respectively between the authors in alignment with their contrasting perceptions of nihilism versus Christian divinity, as does the use of doubt as a manipulative device in opposition to the intrinsic doubt of nature itself. Doubt and faith are primarily introduced in two different lights. Stoker adopts the convention of the supernatural to…

is similar in the Victorian Era beauty was important. In The Picture Of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde introduces us to the main character that was young and innocent. People could not believe any rumors that are spread about him. It made him continue to obtain his youth. The reason that made him to be obsessed with his youth and beauty is another character named Lord Henry that the author introduces to us. However, the main character Dorian Gray could not realize that youth and beauty can gain him…

OSCAR WILDES “The picture of Dorian Gray” Oscar Wilde was a very popular Irish author, poet and a play writer, best known for his book “The Picture Of Dorian Gray”. Born on the 16th of October 1854 in Dublin, Ireland, to Robert Wilde and Jane Francesca Wilde, he turned out to be a quick-witted kid like his parents. His father was a well-known doctor, earned the title of ‘Sir’ for his work as a medical advisor. His mother, Jane Francesca, was a writer who used to write under the pseudonym…

“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim” (Wilde 1). However, on occasion art begins beautiful and then alters negatively. This is the case in both Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and Percival Everett’s Erasure. Although the stories within each are very different in nature, they are interconnected in the way that the work of art within each alters and changes. Plato stated in Phaedrus, “writing has one grave fault in common with…

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…

Mary Shelley and Oscar Wilde truly portray Dr.Frankenstein in Frankenstein and Lord Henry in The Picture of Dorian Gray as monsters as opposed to the monster and Dorian Gray. Not only do each of these Romantic literary writings provide themes of imagination, intuition, inspiration ,and idealism, but they also present flaws in society which are exhibited in the creators and in turn are found in each of their creations. Dr.Frankenstein and Lord Henry lack the moral responsibility for their…