Dorian Gray Quote Analysis

The ethical positions of the characters in the story are similar, but still very different. Dorian, is young and easily influenced. Although he is young and beautiful, he is a wealthy aristocrat. Dorian says “ I’d give my soul,” proving he is immature and easily influenced, that he would do basically anything to get his way or get something he wants. Basil, a character full of wisdom,who is also a wealthy aristocrat and artist. Basil isn't completely confident but very proud of what he does. He says, “It seems at though an outside power was guiding my hand.” In this quote he was referring to his painting of Dorian Grey, showing he knows it's fantastic, but not that he could have done the painting on his own. Lord Henry is also an aristocrat,

One example is when he says “faithfulness is merely laziness.” Which is false, we need to take time and put in dedication to be faithful, requiring a good amount of effort and work. Completely the opposite of Lord Henry suggests to Dorian. Another example is when Lord Henry says “one way to rid temptation is to yield it.” All our lives we are taught nearly the exact opposite, Adam and Eve gave into their temptations, which is the greatest example to us, to not do anything along those lines. Although we still do give into temptations, of course, we are humans. We are never taught to yield to them we are taught to resist our temptations as much as we possibly can.Henry, once again is completely wrong. Lastly, Henry says, “There is no such thing as a good influence, all influence is immoral.” This is honestly the most inaccurate of all the things Henry says. Mary is a perfect influence for us here on earth, as well as Jesus and many other people in bible stories. In fact, there are many bad influences, yes, but if you get yourself with the right people, you may have nothing, but great

Dorian was able to just put a curtain over his “conscience,” or the poster, but we have much more trouble covering our bad conscience up. People who are strong enough can put other thoughts over their bad conscience, or have an overpowering good conscience if we work hard enough for it, but those who are not strong enough, have much more trouble trying to cover up their conscience. They may never be able to cover it up,or change it and be walking around every day with their “portrait” haunting them.
Noone throughout the whole movie thinks of Dorian as ever being able to commit evil because he is so young and beautiful. Dorian also has close to no morals. Especially morals of his own, only being influenced by Henry. The looks of Dorian are truly what deceive people to believe that Dorian is a great person.
Lord Henry at the end of the movie, exclaims “Heaven forgive me.” He shouts this because he wants to be forgiven of when Dorian, basically, told him that he killed Basil, and Lord Henry laughed it off because he didn't believe it, and Lord Henry knows, that he is the only one that could have helped any of this really, since all of his words, are what influenced Dorian as a