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Sybil Vane In 'The Picture Of Dorian Gray'

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The meeting with the goddess follows the road of trials in Campbell’s monomyth in which the hero/heroine experiences a love that holds significance to him/her and impacts the journey for the better. In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dorian meets with the goddess Sybil Vane. The love he has for her deems strong and powerful, but it does not become the type of love that requires two people. The love shapes Dorian’s affection for the art of acting, but not for the love of another human being because truthfully, the only love Dorian shares is with himself. This love in fact resides as a pure fantasy for it only appears when Sybil plays characters aside from who her true personality makes her out to be. Sybil becomes the goddess in the sense that she
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