The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde Artist Basil Hallward has painted a portrait of the beautiful young Dorian Gray, a young man everyone admires for his youth and vitality. While in the studio, Basil's friend Henry Wotton is introduced to Dorian who fascinates the young man with his wild and hedonistic ideas about life. Once the painting is finished, the three marvel at it and Dorian wishes that he would always look so young and beautiful, and that the picture would get old and ugly instead of him. Over several years Wotton seems to corrupt Dorian, who begins to lead his own hedonistic lifestyle and causing the ruin of many men and women along the way. His friendship with Basil wanes as he spends more and more time with Wotton. As he is living this life, Dorian discovers that the painting is starting to have changes of expression and appears to be getting ugly and to have blood on its hands. This change begins to drive Dorian a little mad. He vows to lock the p...