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Poverty In Oscar Wilde's 'The Picture Of Dorian Gray'

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I have never experienced life through the lens of poverty. Poverty has never made me choose between dinner or school supplies, my parents have never worried about my clothes being clean and new, or about where our next meal was coming from. Despite my fortune, half of the world’s population, more than three billion people, live off of less than $2.50 per day. For this reason alone, it was my assumption that everyone shared my understanding and sympathy for the many people across the globe who experience severe poverty. My views concerning others’ interpretation of this topic changed drastically after reading Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, as I began to note the unsettling similarities between the satirized society of Victorian England,
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