The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde | Plot Summary

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Course Hero Literature Instructor Russell Jaffe explains the plot summary of Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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As both a morality tale and a horror story, The Picture of Dorian Gray traces the dissolution and destruction of the title character.
The devastatingly handsome Dorian Gray has his portrait painted as a youth and wishes that the painting, rather than his own visage, might reflect his increasing age. His idle wish comes true and his moral turpitude is reflected in his increasingly grisly likeness.
Whether this is an indictment of the character's unethical dealings or of Victorian society's disapproval of Gray's veiled homosexuality remains a topic of intense debate.
Wilde's own valorization of aesthetic beauty is well known and it seems likely that the story is in part an endorsement of that philosophy, which scandalized the ceaselessly practical Victorians.
Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray was first published in 1890. With characteristic savoir faire, Oscar Wilde weaves elements of the gothic and the aesthetic into the fabric of his best-known novel.
The novel The Picture of Dorian Gray contains many potent themes, including reputation versus character, as some find Dorian charming although his nature is dark and his reputation suffers; appearance versus reality, as the novel questions what is on the surface and what lies beneath it; and art versus life, as the difference between creating beauty and living beautifully is demonstrated. Important symbols include the painting, theater, and flowers.
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After reading your comment, I read about Marquis de Sade & his infamous 120 days of Sodome. Certainly I could only read 'about' it and not read it as I was so disgusted by what that man & his book represent. And I have loved Wilde's work, to be specific his wit & epigrams, and if as you suggested the yellow book represented something as horrific as the work of Sade, I was determined to never touch a Wilde's work again ever in life. But I read and found out, the yellow book Wilde refers to is "A Rebours" a novel by Joris Karl Huysman.
And after reading "about" 120 days of Sodome, I believe it is an epitome to contradict the preface to the Picture of Dorian Gray - "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all." Certainly, Sade's work is not just immoral but inhuman and disgusting in every sense.

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