Blaise
05-24-2005, 06:07 PM
Hi everyone,<br><br><br>I'm 16, still in high school and i have an obsession for psychology, and i think that Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray is a good example of perverted narcissism and its consequeces..and vanity and just plain human nature...isn't it in our nature to long for something we cannot have? In this case foolish Dorian had his wish but at what price...I think the portrait ( after his wish) became a mirror of his soul and everytime it changed it was actually reflecting his state of being ...when he first looked at the picture he saw a sneer that wasn't there originally and as time passed and Dorian fell more in more into debauch and unconventional lifestyle ...the picture change with him until it finally revealed Dorian' true nature..He murdered Basil because of the portrait..In the end he stabbed the portrait with the same knife he had killed Basil and finally his soul was freed (movie version) when the Police came looking for him they found nothing but his dried up body..In a way i think when Darian made that wish they switched places, the portrait became him and mirrored the depths of his perverve and twisted character while Dorian remaind forever young and beautifull... the book is ok and the movie is not bad...<br>Oscar Wilde is quite a character in himself...i recommend reading his biography ! If anyone is interested in reading about human nature..I suggest Fyodor Doestoevsky's the Brothers Karamazov...Story about a Greedy, shameless and idiotic and ignorant father and his four very different sons: sensual and impulsive Dimitry (Mitya), Ivan the intelluctual, gentle Alyosha and cunning Smerdyakov, the bastard child...story of murder, love triangles...<br><br>Later people...!