Psychology In Oscar Wilde's The Picture Of Dorian Gray

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What action to be taken if all of the evil you did had recorded? Do you decided to hide it for the purpose to prevent others discovered it? How do you hide your secret if your evil revealed? Start to read this book then you will get an answer from all of these question. The book call “The Picture of Dorian Gray” is written by Oscar Wilde. This novel show combination of genre, it can be a classic, horror, psychology and dramatic story. From the novel, we can see any “horror” side when the portrait of Dorian Gray drawn by Basil Hallward changed and the disappearance of Basil Hallward after he died. Furthermore, psychology side shown when Dorian was fearing that James Vane will kill him, because of fear he always hallucinating that James is surrounding Each of the quotes are powerful and have strongly meaning, we need to reread it from several times to have a deep understanding of each quotes. They are powerful because I am highly influences by the quotes. The quotes are “realize your youth while you have it. Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar.” (Lord Henry, chapter 2 page 19) At first I think that Dorian is very foolish listen and believe every words Lord Henry taught to him and changes his own perspective, but after I read through the quotes again and again I notice that I agree with what Lord Henry say to Dorian and if I am Dorian I will exactly influence by him, because we will appreciate what God gives us like if we are rich we cannot accept that we are poor in a sudden, just like Dorian cannot accept that his appearance will grow older in the future so he started regard his young and beauty he has right From my point of view, I think that this book is reflect his true heart, Basil Hallward reflect his truly personality, Dorian Gray is the character that Oscar desire to be, and Lord Henry is show his image that look by the society. If I have the chance to meet any of the character in real life, I would like to meet Dorian Gray. I want to meet him to see how good looking he was and warn him do not listen to Lord Henry, to be yourself remain pure inside and outside, because of the influences by him others will look at you as evil and you will no longer as pretty as before in the eye of others. If you really cannot avoid the influence by him please try to save your soul and do not give up for your

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