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How Did Dorian's Influence Over Basil

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2) I believe that even though Dorian's influence over Basil was unintended, Lord Henry's intentional manipulation has drastic consequences for Dorian because to influence a person is to give one's soul. His virtues are not real to him. This is a quote from ( The picture of Dorian Gray.) I think Dorian was responsible because of the ruined lives of his friends. He was obsessed with beauty and easily influenced nature and very irresponsible. However Lord Henry became interested in how Dorian's power over Basil can influence his art so much, and later decides to influence over Basil was accidental. I think somebody is responsible when they are transparent in their actions and they do not continually procrastinate. 3) Wilde's incarceration took its toll on his health. He injured his ear during a fall. Wilde was able to write in prison but he was forbidden from writing poetry. he was able to write letters he spent two years in prison and the last 3 years of his life he left to live in France and there he wrote his last work, ( The Ballad of reading Gaol). …show more content…

5) The the theme of Dorian Gray is the morality of beauty and youth. The trouble starts when Henry warns Dorian that his beauty and youth will fade and tells him to make him to make the most of it. Dorian's beauty is such that people are amazed by it. and all the advantages seem to come from it. It did not matter that he had a interesting personality and wealth. With Henry's words ringing in his ears, Dorian immediately views Basil's portrait of him in a new light.(https://wwwlitcharts.com ) A shorter novel length version was published in ( July 1890). 6) Bishop Fisher was an English catholic

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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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Once Dorian kills Basil, he adds to the heinous crime by blackmailing his friend, Alan Campbell, into disposing of his body. Conversely, for levity from the terrible horrors he commits and to relive his soul, Dorian buys flowers symbolizing ephemeral beauty and the purity that comes with it, comparative to Dorian’s lasting beauty and ugliness of his soul due to the atrocities he has committed. Moreover, Dorian, the epitome of hedonism and aestheticism, kills Basil, the pinnacle of Victorian ideals and norms, stressing the novel's (and Wilde’s) defiance of standard views and

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He was incredibly cruel towards Sibyl Vane and caused her to commit suicide. Due to Lord Henry’s influence he does not blame himself, yet he blames Sibyl for acting poorly. As the cruel actions continue Dorian gets deeper and deeper into the lifestyle of Lord Henry, to the point where he shrugs off a loved one's death as it is nothing. Sibyl’s purely innocent personality contrasted with Dorian’s cruel and hedonistic life which shows just how Dorian is developing as a

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He even further proves his evil soul when he murders Basil without even thinking minutes later. Dorian had turned from harsh and selfish to a murder. Dorian Gray starts off as a harsh person who thinks about repairing his mistakes, but transitions to a selfish murderer who seeks pleasure, all because of Lord Henrys poisonous words. Dorian Gray ruined countless lives throughout the book and goes from breaking hearts and causing suicides, to killing his good friend Basil Hallward. As a result of Lord Henry’s influence, he begins to think only about himself and for his own benefit and pleasure and nothing of anyone else.

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