Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray Annotated Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray starts on a wonderful summer day in Victorian England, where Lord Henry Wotton, an obstinate man, is noticing the touchy craftsman Basil Hallward painting the representation of Dorian Gray, an attractive young fellow who is Basil's definitive dream. While sitting for the canvas, Dorian tunes in to Lord Henry embracing his epicurean perspective and starts to believe that magnificence is the solitary part of life worth seeking after, provoking Dorian to wish that his representation would age rather than himself. Concluding that lone full admission will clear him of bad behavior, Dorian chooses to annihilate the last remnant of his inner voice and the solitary piece of proof surviving from his wrongdoings; the image. In an anger, he takes the blade with which he killed Basil Hallward and wounds the image. The workers of the house stir on hearing a cry from the bolted room; in the city, a bystander who likewise heard the cry calls the police. Ongoing into the bolted room, the workers track down an obscure elderly person cut in the heart, his figure shriveled and feeble. The workers recognize the distorted body by the rings on its fingers, which had a place with Dorian Gray. Alongside him, the representation is currently reestablished to its previous appearance of magnificence.