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media type="custom" key="6353065"​ *Play while you view. ** The Picture of Dorian Gray **

By: Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde ( Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie) was born October 16, 1854. His mother was Jane Francesca Elgee, a poet. His father was William Wilde, a doctor who traveled the world and wrote two books. Oscar reached his peak of fame in the late 19th century during the Victorian Era in London. As a young boy Oscar was a bright child. He received many awards in school including Royal School Scholarship to attend Trinity College in Dublin, Berkeley Gold Medal for Greek, and Demyship scholarship to Magdalen College in Oxford. Wilde wrote many books and is remembered of his great works. Oscar Wilde died on November 30, 1900.

Plot: The main character, Dorian Gray gets a portrait painted of him by Basil Hallward. The picture is outstading and looks as gorgeous as Dorian looks. Dorian was sad when he received the painting because the painting would stay beautiful while he would grow old and wrinkled. Dorian wishes for it to be the other way around, having his picture get old and him staying young and attractive. The wish came true and was affected by each action Dorian had in the book. In the start Dorian was happy that his emotions were only visible on his picture, but he soon got afraid of the portrait and hid it. “Through some strange quickening of inner life the leprosies of sin were slowly eating the thing away. The rotting of a corpse in a watery grave not so fearful” (Wilde 137). Dorian was afraid Dorian occasionally goes back to see the changes that happen on the picture because of his actions. Reading // The Picture of Dorian Gray // will reveal what does happen to Dorian Gray.

**My Opionion:**

I enjoyed reading // The Picture of Dorian Gray // . Wilde did a very good job of keeping the reader interested throughout the entire book. He did phenomenal with the plot. The struggle between Dorian and himself was suspenseful because you didn’t know how Dorian was going to act and how his picture would be affected by it. One of the themes in the book was appearance and material possessions aren’t the most important things in life. Even though Dorian was young looking he still was not happy. He was always thinking about what his picture looked like and how it changed. One of the characters in the story symbolized the conscience of Dorian. The character was James Vane. James wanted to kill Dorian and Dorian imagined James wherever he was. Dorian started to feel bad for the things he had done.

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