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A Picture Of Dorian Gray: Basil's Life Changes As Related To Wilde's Opinion On Art
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A Picture of Dorian Gray: Basil's Life Changes As Related To Wilde's Opinion
Oscar Wilde, author of The Picture of Dorian Gray, makes Basil's
life change drastically by having him paint a portrait of Dorian Gray and
express too much of himself in it, which, in Wilde's mind, is a troublesome
obstacl ....
Middle of essay ....iscovers the painting and asks Basil why he will not
display it. Lord Henry thinks that it is so beautiful it should be
displayed in a museum. Basil argues that the reason he will not display
the painting is because he is "afraid that [he] has shown in it the secret
of his soul" (Wilde 23). This is another paradox because he has not only
shown the secret of his soul, but the painting eventually comes to show the
secret of Dorian's soul also. In the preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray,
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