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

The story of a soul

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin in Ireland. He studied in Oxford Magdalen College and graduated from there successfully. He joined to competition about poetry and composition in Oxford University and he won the prize of Newdigate. In 1881, his first poetry book was published. He was blacklisted because of The Picture of Dorian Gray which was published in 1890. After this successful novel, his high-society comedies released. He was put in prison. After conviction, Oscar Wilde went to Europe and passed away in

Dorian is acquainte with Lord Henry Wotton who is friend of Basil Hallward and he impresses by his world-view considerably. In accordance with Lord Henry, the most important values are pleasure, beauty and getting different pleasure. Dorian realizes that one day he will lose his beauty and he expresses how much he wants the aging of the image that is drawn by Basil Hallward instead of himself. Dorian’s wish comes true, he sells his soul to devil in exchange for forever youth.While Dorian keeps young, his picture is getting old and his every sins reflect his picture. Just as Dorian lives his life which is full of sensational events, he doesn’t get old but his picture gets old. In the final, the noble is over Dorian’s suicide and truths

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This explains to us the reason (why) Oscar Wilde’s quotes which is ‘All arts is surface’ and ‘All arts is quite useless’. Because, a bright spot that shows us in this context is only an imitation and reflection. It can’t be real. However, this reflection lies behind even of the interaction from Dorian to Basil. Basil says, ‘ while I was painting it, Dorian Gray sat beside me. Some subtle influence passed from him to me, and for the first time in my life I saw in the plain woodland the wonder I had always looked for and always missed."

In this moment, as a matter of fact, Basil re-creates face of Dorian’s with his own imagination. Basil re-creates face of Dorian’s with his secondary imagination which has indigenous to the artist. However, because he isn’t able to the real still, it doesn’t fill the depth of the notion surface which is said by Oscar Wilde.

In the novel, there is someplace which is mentioned Dorian’s mother, but especially her beauty is emphasized. Helen is a very beautiful woman in Greek mythology and in a sense , of the connection with the son of the Helen is explained here. Because, according to some sources, Helen has a son whose name is Dorian. Like Helen, Dorian has goldilocks and he has coloured-eyes. Namely, Dorian’s beauty comes from