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Oscar Wilde is a British famous author, who wrote the novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray”. It is an aestheticism representative work. “The Picture of Dorian Gray” has been criticized by British public “This book is the product of the leprosy monster of the French decadent literature, this book is a full of toxic odor, moral and spiritual decay”. The point of view of this book is the book euphemistic show people a tragedy life of the Dorian Gray, and if just for art to taste the art, then the art will never take the happiness to people. If people seek the art and lost the original moral outlook, the art will be meaningless for people. The life is the imitation of the art, if destroy the art the life of the people will be nonexistent. The book in chapter two shows how Hallward painted the most successful painting for Dorian Gray. The painter think this painting should belong to Dorian Gray, because he is the protagonist of this painting and the idea for create this work is form this man who gives him idea, which is never been founded by him before, until he meets the Dorian Gray in a party. When he finished the work, Dorian Gray was so unexpected and he pray he can keep the appearance. From that moment, Dorian Gray started to lost himself, and his happiness. He loves the painting so much and this love made him jealousy. …show more content…

Because of Dorian Gray lost his soul, this means he lost his moral contract. In chapter eleven, He started collect the tapestries, jewelry and music this kind of art to research the art, but this still did not help a lot. However, this is just a way to find the feeling of the art, but this is a way to escape, to escape the painting which has already changed to ugly, that painting take him a feeling which is guilty. He has already lost his sense of art, and he lost the original moral

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