the picture of dorian gray

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how sad it is! i shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. but this picture will remain always young... if it were only the other way! if it were i who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! the artist's studio in a beautifully decorated london studio, artist basil hallward was completing a full-length portrait of an extraordinarily handsome young man. lord henry wotton, a visitor to the studio, declared it to be hallward's finest work and insisted on knowing the identity of the subject. initially reluctant, hallward eventually revealed that the young man was dorian gray, whose beauty and personality had become a source of artistic inspiration to him. when dorian gray arrived at the studio, lord henry immediately began influencing the young man with his hedonistic philosophy, suggesting that youth and beauty were the only things worth having. as hallward worked on …
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e after his rejection. dorian quickly proposed marriage to sibyl, but when he brought lord henry and basil to see her perform, she acted terribly. sibyl explained that her love for dorian had made her realize the artificiality of the stage - she could no longer pretend to be in love when she knew what real love was. dorian, valuing her art more than her love, cruelly rejected her, telling her she had killed his love. each of us has heaven and hell in him. the only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself. the next day, lord henry informed dorian that sibyl had committed suicide by swallowing poison. initially shocked and guilt-ridden, dorian was persuaded by lord henry to see the event as a dramatic artistic tragedy …
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ilor about 18 years old, seeks revenge against dorian for his sister's death. murder and consequences eighteen years after sibyl's death, basil hallward visited dorian before leaving for paris. he confronted dorian about the terrible rumors surrounding his name and begged him to reform. in response, dorian showed basil the now-hideous portrait. horrified by what he saw, basil urged dorian to repent. in a fit of rage, dorian stabbed and killed the artist. to dispose of the body, dorian blackmailed an old friend, alan campbell, a chemist, into using his scientific knowledge to destroy the evidence. campbell later committed suicide out of guilt. alan campbell — young scientist, former friend of dorian's, helps dispose of basil's body through chemical means, later commits suicide. behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. worlds had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow... and how charming he had …

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how sad it is! i shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. but this picture will remain always young... if it were only the other way! if it were i who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! the artist's studio in a beautifully decorated london studio, artist basil hallward was completing a full-length portrait of an extraordinarily handsome young man. lord henry wotton, a visitor to the studio, declared it to be hallward's finest work and insisted on knowing the identity of the subject. initially reluctant, hallward eventually revealed that the young man was dorian gray, whose beauty and personality had become a source of artistic inspiration to him. when dorian gray arrived …

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