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Dorian Gray Sins

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Beautiful people get all the attention even though they clearly don't have the best interest at heart. This is shown by so many public scandals where the celebrity did something wrong but wasn't really punished for it cause the deed willwas to be soon be forgotten, whereas ordinary people would be harshly judged and punished. This is shown in the picture of Dorian Gray too. Dorian has his young and stunning looks cause all his sins are stored in the painting, that's why everyone talks to him and loves him so much even though he has so many allegations of crimes. The best example of this is Lord Henry, in my opinion, he represents the shallowness of the society. He knows the crimes that Dorian has committed, but helps him to shush them and does …show more content…

Often, that is the reason that kids get into drugs, alcohol, gambling but sometimes it can have a positive outcome like forcing your friend to study so they don't fail the year or to try out a new after-school club. Usually, peer pressure has negative consequences. It is all because people want to fit in and be a part of a larger group. They want to feel like they belong somewhere, and children are easier to influence because they tend to be more naive and trusting. This is very boldy showed by Wilde when Lord Henry walks into his life. Suddenly, Henry introduced Dorian to many important people of the high class. This makes him go to parties a lot more, be interested in rumors and care about how famous he is. Lord Henry pressures Dorian into bad decisions that it seems he himself regrets from his past, for example to not get married or not care about others. Eventually he Dorian is corrupt of his conscience. He does not sense remorse when he kills someone and only feels regret when his life is in danger. We can see how bad his soul is when the painting that now looks horrifying is described, “An exclamation of horror broke from the painter's lips as he saw in the dim light the hideous face on the canvas grinning at him.”. Dorian does not care about his sins and uses excuses like: "Each of us has heaven and hell in him, Basil," which shows the real impact of Henry’s and Dorian’s friendship, Dorian has become

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Chunk # 1 Chapters: 1 - 2 Set in Basil’s Home, Dorian and Henry first meet - Basil paints a portrait of Dorian and shows it to Henry - When Dorian arrives, the two meet (Henry and Dorian), and Henry speaks of his ideology - Fascinated, Dorian decides to go to the theatre with him, despite Basil’s objections – Basil objects, knowing that Dorian is quite naïve, and could easily be influenced by Henry’s cynicism Chunk # 2 Chapters: 3 - 4 Dorian and Henry’s relationship tightens, and Dorian falls in love - Henry visits his uncle to learn of Dorian’s past (Dead mother, father, raised by tyrant, the whole nine) - Goes, along with Dorian, to his aunt’s home at a small gathering, and he rants on about the hedonistic lifestyle - Dorian, being charmed by Henry’s ideals and way of

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Dorian Gray abandons parts of himself to please the devil figure, Lord Henry, and for his own greed for beauty and youth. In a discussion with Lord Henry about marriage, Dorian reaffirms Lord Henry’s belief and “[puts] it into practice” (34). Lord Henry has such an influence on Dorian Gray that Dorian states “I do everything you say” (34). There are several personality traits of a devil archetype: clever, charming, the ability to lie and manipulate, heartless, and mercifulness (Archetypes). Certainly Dorian Gray has his own morals, however, whenever Lord Henry is around he seems to surrenders his own to learn the corrupted perspective.

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Take ownership of your actions and man up and deal with the consequences. Lord Henry was partially responsible for Dorian’s corruption but Dorian cannot lay all the blame on him. Dorian’s the one who confused love with lust; lead a girl on, then broke her heart. He was the cause of her suicide and he was delusional to think that her life was just a fiction of his imagination. He never knew what love was because the only thing he ever knew was art.

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The murder of his friend forces Dorian to evaluate the severity of his sins and also reconsider his lifestyle. The portrait he once found fascinating now looms over him with a “loathsome red dew” (Wilde 146) on one of the hands. As his sins weigh upon him, Dorian attempts to repent through good deeds, but nonetheless, he finds no change in the portrait. The lack of transformation in the portrait suggests that Dorian still feels influence from evil, and does not truly want to change himself. Lord Henry mocks Dorian’s attempts to “moralize” and tells him that it is no use.

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Throughout the whole story Dorian is influenced by Lord Henry to become a hedonist, however Lord Henry did not directly tell Dorian to, rather he slyly tricked him whilst taking advantage of his pure and innocent mind and molding it to follow his ideals. Dorian is innocent at the beginning of the novel, aside from desiring eternal beauty, and his mind is clear and boyish. Up until he meets Lord Henry and becomes friends with him Dorian is good-natured and beloved by all, however when he meets Sibyl Vane his world changes. After he proposes to her and they promise their lives together she gives up acting, the part he loves most about her, and he responds in such a way that she kills herself. In his moment of horrible vulnerability Lord Henry sweeps into Dorian’s life and convinces him to experience not feel.

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Lord Henry is known as the person that turns an innocent boy named Dorian Gray into a cruel vile murderer. Some of the comments stated by Lord Henry are seen as cynical however there is controversy on whether or not he truly means these statements or rather they are just for effect on the story. I believe Lord Henry doesn’t mean these comments completely based on his actions in the book. The author of the book The Picture of Dorian Gray was Oscar Wilde. Wilde was known as a very eccentric kind of fellow.

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It gives a complete picture of the Victorian society Wilde lives in, and it analyzes its weaknesses and falsities. The story shows how an innocent man becomes a monster as he starts to frequent the high society environment that, for the most part, turns out to be corrupted and extremely negative. The influences to which Dorian is exposed, turn him into a completely different person, capable of committing terrible crimes without feelings of regret. For example, right after Dorian breaks the vow he made to Sibyl, and after he learns about the tragic consequences his action brought, states, “I am nothing of the kind. I know I am not.

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Lord Henry has set his mind on corrupting Dorian because he feels that with his lack of knowledge, that he can make Dorian become a spitting image of himself. We see Lord Henry try to convince Dorian to do many things at the beginning of the book when Basil first mentions his name to Lord Henry. Later we see Lord Henry convince Dorian to give into his temptations and just do everything that pleases himself. Dorian takes these words and turns them into reality, but in doing so harms those around him both physically and emotionally.

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Lord Henry consciously chooses Dorian Gray in pupils, attracted first of all with his appearance. “Your mysterious young friend, whose name you have never told me, but whose picture really fascinates me, never thinks. I feel quite sure of that” (Wilde 7). Not only his physical beauty, but his pure soul is so interesting for Lord Henry: “All the candour of youth was there, as well as all youth’s passionate purity. One felt that he had kept himself unspotted from the world” (Wilde 17).

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This is a reality that Dorian himself will ultimately face, “XXXXXXXXXX”. The Picture of Dorian Gray is a story about the death of youth. A handsome young man, who had, “…all youth 's passionate purity” (pg), is seduced by a philosophy of hedonistic behavior and a desire to stay young forever. The gothic is the backdrop, and often times, the direct result of Dorian’s profound degeneration.

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A youthful, special personality lies in the heart of a man that inspires a painter’s best work. This nature is intricate, kind, pure, and a wonderful focus for portraits and paintings alike. In The Picture of Dorian Gray, a close friend tragically robs this youth and leads the man to a life that terminates because of evil. Gray, the corrupt man of interest in Oscar Wilde’s novel, has a complex personality, giving him many different companions in the story. Fatefully, he meets the artist Basil at a party due to Basil’s interest in his friend’s striking and mysterious identity.

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The relationship caused an insurmountable number of wrong-doings and Dorian seeking to find a way to fix them, caused the end of his life. Lord Henry had warned Dorian about loving Sibyl saying, “When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others,” (Wilde, 71) but Dorian’s desire for pleasure had hindered his own ability to listen. The driving factor of Dorian’s relationship with Sibyl was his own pleasure, when Sibyl had “spoiled the romance of life” he ended the relationship as he had now seen her as “a third-rate actress with a pretty face.” (Wilde, 115) The fact had become clear that Dorian had only valued Sibyl as an aesthetic and beautiful object rather than a human-being with flaws. He had perceived her as a living work of art, and since she could not act anymore, she had lost all of her value to

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Still, even while living freely, he is not frivolous, thus his youth and appearance allow him to maintain in the eyes of society the impression of the spotless purity: “Even those who had heard the most evil things against him, and from time to time strange rumours . . . could not believe anything to his dishonour when they saw him” (Wilde 106). In this aspect he also imitates Lord Henry, who is though seen as a very immoral man, is a respectful member of society. The process of moral fall has its climax by the assassination of Basil Hallward. Dorian feels how corrupt he has become; his soul was “sick to death” (Wilde 154) and he decides to try to live a moral life, which started when he “spared Hetty” (Wilde 174) by putting no

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At the start of the novel we see him admiring and borderline idolizing Dorian for his beauty. However, he leaves it at just that. He accepts Dorian for who he is and does not view his youth as an excuse to try and mold him into the kind of person he wants him to be. When Dorian chooses to be influenced by Lord Henry, he cautions him, but does not actually try to stop him; however, this pattern does not continue for long. Over time, Basil begins to scold Dorian and attempt to nudge him into what he believes is the right direction.

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All his murders and crimes are reflected in the aging, and evil face of his portrait. Every week, hour and second in the story we could see that Dorian would grow old and old. Although he was not caught from all of his crimes and sins he couldn’t lie to the painting. “It might escape the hideousness of sin, but the hideousness of age was in store for it. The cheeks would become hollow or flaccid.

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