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The Picture Of Dorian Gray: Book Review

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Book Review In The Picture of Dorian Gray, written by Oscar Wilde, it highlights a sense of suspense, intrigue, and horror. It portrays a young man who desires to remain young and beautiful forever and he covers the very insight into human vanity. Even the name of the main character in this novel, Dorian Gray is very symbolic because gray (grey) is the combination of black and white, of good and evil. Dorian Gray is a beautiful, young, impressionable boy, who loses sight of what’s important to him and then mutates into a wicked person. This novel begins in London’s studio, when artist Basil Hallward and his close friend, Lord Henry Wotton, are discussing about Basil’s newest portrait of a gorgeous, young, and impressionable boy named Dorian Gray. Basil is obsessed over the beauty of Dorian and never stop complimenting him just how perfectly perfect Dorian is. This triggers the curiosity of Henry, desire to meet this mysterious boy, but Basil doesn’t want him to. For some reason, Basil thinks that Henry might be a bad …show more content…

Dorian allows Basil to paint portraits of himself, because as a child used to paint portraits himself. During the last session of painting, Dorian, who has until this point been completely innocent both of his beauty and of the world. Lord Henry immediately begins to influence Dorian, suggesting that he should treasure and guard his youth and beauty while he has them, because they will soon fade. Dorian is terrified of aging. Upon the completion of the portrait, Dorian wishes he could trade his soul to stay young forever. A short while later, he wishes again out loud that the painting would grow old, and not he. Hence, Basil produces a portrait with the likeness and beauty of Dorian Gray, Basil feels shame and dislike for the portrait so he offers it to Dorian as a gift. Dorian soon becomes Lord Henry's apprentice and Dorian grows more and more distant from Basil and develops his own

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