The Conscience of Dorian Gray in Oscar Wildes The Picture of Dorian Gr

The Conscience of Dorian grizzly in Oscar Wildes The hand over of Dorian GrayMuch of the criticism regarding The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde has dealt with Dorian Grays similitude to his own portraying (Raby 392). While some may argue that the portrait represents a reflection of Dorian Grays type, this is only a superficial analysis of the novel and Dorians character. While Dorian Grays true character never changes, it is his own acquaintance of his character (his conscience) that is reflected in the changing face of his portrait. In essence Dorians picture becomes a mirror through which the true Dorian judges his own metamorphasis as the superficial captain Henry Dorian attempts to embrace Lord Henrys teachings. Dorians wave-particle duality of character causes a constant internal struggle within him, eventually culminating in his own suicide. Initially, Lord Henrys doctrine of new-sprung(prenominal) Hedonism contrasts sharply with Dorians youthful innocence and passions. These initial feelings ar the readers first and clearest experience with the soon to be keep down true Dorian. The terminology, however, does not imply that Dorian has never been influenced before. This unblemished character simply represents Dorians self at the start of the novel, a state which he accepts as his own and is able to find pink of my John in. From this first conversation, Dorians peace begins shatter when he learns of Lord Henrys philosophy and its implications for his own life. Dorian is described as a brainless, beautiful creature (3), appropriate since all Dorian has at this demo in the novel is his own initial, untainted feelings. Thus this pre-Henry stage is the only time in the novel at which Dorian expresses his true self outwardly. This brai... ...he Picture of Dorian Gray A Norton Critical Edition. Ed. Lawler, Donald L. (1988). 405-412. Raby, Peter. Oscar Wilde. (1980) 164. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. DiMauro, Laurie. Vol. 41. Detroit Gale, 1991. 392-397. Spivey, Ted R. Oscar Wilde and the Tragedy of Symbolism. The Journey Beyond Tragedy. (1980) 57-71. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. DiMauro, Laurie. Vol. 41. Detroit Gale, 1991. 501-502. Summers, Claude J. In Such Surrender There May Be Gain Oscar Wilde and the Beginnings of braw Fiction. Gay Fictions Wilde to Stonewall, Studies in a Male Homosexual Literary Tradition. (1990) 29-61. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. DiMauro, Laurie. Vol. 41. Detroit Gale, 1991. 398-401. Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oxford Worlds Classics. Oxford Oxford University Press, 1998.