The Role Of Youth In The Picture Of Dorian Gray

Every Person alive today was once a child. We are young and youthful. We have the sweet innocence of thinking the world is filled with rainbows and sunshine. But we soon fall under temptation and influence. Our view on the world seems bleak. We soon start to envy those who are youthful and we start to have a strange obsession with youth. Some say it is to look more youthful, but in reality, people want to feel that sweet innocence of sunshine and rainbows. The Picture of Dorian Gray, by: Oscar Wilde. It's about a young, beautiful boy. Basil paints a portrait which resembles Dorian’s inner sins and soul, which had been corrupted by Lord Henry’s view on life. Dorian falls is engaged with a girl named Sybyl Vane which one night she acts in Romeo and Juliet awfully and Dorian breaks up with her and she kills herself. The painting changes. Dorians thrown into a fray and tries to change but doesn’t. He kills Basil and himself in the end. This begs the statement, we musn’t be vulnerable when we are youthful. We are vulnerable when we are youthful because we are innocent.

We must not take advantage of youth because sooner or later we will loose it and fall into our temptations, so far that we can’t turn back and we start to envy those who still have it. We hurt the ones who we love most. The Picture of Dorian Gray express this in a way of profound statements and sin. People want to go back to the gray area of life when it is neither good or bad. But ultimately, we mustn’t be vulnerable when we are youthful, because sooner than later our white coated innocence soon becomes stained with the thick red blood of our sins, then it grows and grows until we are consumed by our own infatuations that we don’t know where to go next. Thus, we must deal with the fact that we get older and have different responsibilities and we must have more control over our emotions. If we do this, we can move on in life the way as smoothly as