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The Picture Of Dorian Gray: Corruption Through Aestheticism
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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is the story of moral
corruption by the means of aestheticism. In the novel, the well meaning artist
Basil Hallward presets young Dorian Gray with a portrait of himself. After
conversing with cynical Lord Henry Wotton, Dorian makes a wish which dreadfull ....
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....ul things but should put nothing of his own life into them"
(Wilde 25). Ironically, the purpose of Basil Hallward's existence is that he
is an aesthete striving to become one with his art (Eriksen 105). It is this
very work of art which Basil refuses to display that provides Dorian Gray with
the idea that there are no consequences to his actions. Dorian has this
belief in mind when he murders Basil. Here we see that the artist is killed
for his excessive love of physical beauty; the same ar.... |
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