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Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Summary of: "The Picture of Dorian
Gray"
Basil Howard a painter draws a portrait of a young man, that
becomes the best thing he has ever done. Dorian Gray who has been painted
discovers for the first time how good he looks by seeing his portrait. Being at
Basil’s house Dorian meets Lord Henry a friend of Basil whom Basil did not
want Dorian to meet because he feared that he could steel Dorian’s purity
and innocence. Nevertheless Lord Henry and Dorian become close friends while
Dorian is impressed by Lord Henry’s hedonistic philosophy. Dorian realizes
by the conversations with Lord Henry, who says he should profit of his beauty
before it is gone, that his marvelous body will degenerate. So he hopes that he
could stay forever young and that his portrait would make the physical changes
he should. He would even give his soul away for this wish.
Dorian meets Sybil Vane an actress that in the end of their
relation commits suicide because of him, and then the first changes in the
portrait become visible. Dorian realizes that his wish became true and leads for
years a vicious live comporting drug addiction and many relations to
women’s without losing one bit of his beauty. This whole change in his
live has always been supported by Lord Henry’s ideas. With the years
Dorian became an example for younger people trying to imitate his way of
live.
When Dorian meets the painter Basil after some years again
he shows him the picture and in a rush of anger against him, blaming him for his
vicious live kills Basil. Then he makes the corps disappear and continues his
bad live. Some day Dorian gets scruples and he realizes that he can’t
continue the way he lives so he destroys the picture and all the signs of age
are transferred from the picture to him. When he sees himself in the mirror he
commits suicide. The second part of his wish became also true he had to give his
soul for his everlasting youth.
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