Corruption Of Dorian Gray (The
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Lord Henry who is "not at all surprised that the world says that he is a extremely wicked man," (248) plays an important role in destroying the one essence of Dorian's being that will remain after death. He not only plants nefarious ideas into Dorian's head but he also gives him a copy of a most s ....
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.... point perhaps to a feminine trait in him." (Woodcock, 199) Months at a time he spends collecting his precious jewels or staring at his exquisite tapestries. He is a man infatuated with the details of correctly knotting a tie or making sure he is always in fashion. Dorian is simply a fop at the height of fashion. Young gentlemen would "try to copy his style, mode of dressing. Young men tried to reproduce the accidental charm of his graceful, though to him only half-serious fopperies." (W ....
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