Analysis Of Oscar Wilde's The Picture Of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray supports the idea that one should be careful what they wish for, as it may come true. Dorian Gray, the main character, makes a wish that a painting will change instead of him throughout his future. In the novel of The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, the deterioration of Dorian Gray, and the way he progressively becomes a worse of a person shows how the author, Oscar Wilde, added himself into the novel as a character to show the world how he sees himself. He is portrayed as childish and unaware of the events happening around him. Dorian Gray ruins his future by committing a multitude of sins that later in life he realizes he cannot fix.

Dorian Gray is vulnerable and he acts like a child when not given what he wants. Dorian was likely raised while given everything that he wanted. When he had the realization about how life goes while talking to Lord Henry at the beginning of the novel, he began to act out and had a tantrum because he did not like what the future held. In the novel Basil, Dorian’s best friend, had done a painting of Dorian just before the conversation was made and Dorian made a wish. “Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes it takes something from me, and gives something to it. Oh, if only it were the other way! If the picture could change and I could be always what I am now!” (20) While Dorian was whining about the painting the readers got a sense of his personality and who he was. He