A Picture of Dorian Gray
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A Picture of Dorian Gray
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I consider this book the best one I’ve read so far. The author’s ability to describe the decor of the rooms, the view, the characters.. is just amazing! While reading this book I have felt like watching a movie because of the way it was written.
Everything was pure art and the ending.. the best!
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but I can appreciate a character which annoys me rather than a character with no affect at all. it means that the character has been well sketched. I do feel like he might just be Oscar Wilde's mouthpiece tho. making me wonder if Wilde would rather make a better essayist than a novelist.
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Cue in the montage of my not sleeping well for a couple weeks after that.
In the midst of all this, I started reading The picture of Dorian Gray because we were studying Oscar Wilde in English class, and the part when Dorian reads the yellow book it really stuck with me.
This book has so many interpretations and interesting points to contemplate, but for some reason for me the takeaway was "if life has just half of the wonderful things that Dorian reads about in the yellow book, maybe it's not going to be so bad to grow old, live enough to find those wonders and than die"
So yeah maybe not the best or most poingnant interpretation of the book, but it worked for me.
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Narcissism portrayed beautifully. In its dark fantasy of selling one's soul to remain in a age of beauty evermore. Even without the portrait, in Dorian's actions, he shows the true rotten nature of the soul.
One of my favorite quotes " the only way to get rid of temptation, is to yield to it."
Which in parts hold true, but beware the consequences.