A Picture Of Dorian Gray: Basil's Life Changes As Related To Wilde's Opinion On Art
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A Picture of Dorian Gray: Basil's Life Changes As Related To Wilde's Opinion
Oscar Wilde, author of The Picture of Dorian Gray, makes Basil's
life change drastically by having him paint a portrait of Dorian Gray and
express too much of himself in it, which, in Wilde's mind, is a troublesome
obstacl ....
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.... him. Wilde does this many times throughout the book. He loved
using paradoxes and that is why Lord Henry, the character most similar to
Wilde, is quoted as being called "Price Paradox." Although Dorian and
Basil end up hating each other, they do enjoy meeting each other for the
first time. Basil finds something different about Dorian. He sees him in
a different way than he sees other men. Dorian is not only beautiful to
Basil, but he is also gentle and kind. This is when Basil falls in l ....
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