The Picture Of Dorian Gray Analysis

“The Picture of Dorian Grey” is written by Oscar Wilde and the novel presents us the story of a young beautiful boy, who dreamed to never lose his beauty and his youth.

In this essay my aim is to reveal the role of influence over the protagonist Dorian Grey, which changes the life of the central character of the novel.

In the paragraphs that follows, I will write about the Dorian’s transition of personality, the influence of Lord Henry over Dorian Grey, but also about the influence of Basil Hallward, the importance of the main female character Sibyl Vane, the role of the picture in Dorian’s new life and the Dorian Grey’s decision to destroy the painting.

In my opinion one of the decisive factor in the Oscar Wilde’s novel, The Picture of Dorian Grey is the influence of the characters, which has the role to modify in good or in bad the personality of Dorian Grey. I believe that the story of Dorian Grey is very interesting because the young men starts as an innocent and kind boy, a person who makes good things and who cares about the others feelings, while he is influenced by the artist from the book Basil Hallward. But, after he meets Basil’s friend, Lord Henry he becomes a boy who only wants to satisfy his desires, his instincts and he is ready to risk anything for the fulfillment of his wishes.

In the next paragraphs, I am going to write about the character’s influence over Dorian Grey, I will make a summary of the book and I will make a comparison between the main characters of the book, Henry Wotton, Dorian Grey and Basil Hallward.

First of all, at the beginning of the novel, the young Dorian is presented like an ideal image of physical and moral beauty. The protagonist is seen by th...

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... He actually try to destroy the portrait, he took the knife and stubbed the picture, but in reality he stubbed himself. Directly in his heart. He died immediately, and in the end, he wasn’t young and beautiful anymore. He was “withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage”. But, the picture who was hanging on the wall sparkled more beautiful than ever. It manage to keep the purity, the innocence, the beauty and the youth of the old Dorian Grey.

In conclusion, the immorality never remains unpunished. That’s why Dorian Grey died. Because he was an immoral person. The bad influence of Lord Henry, the fact that Basil Hallward couldn’t influence him more, the fact that Sybil Vane commit suicide, the fact that the portrait becomes his own conscious and the fact that Dorian tries to destroy the portrait, lead him to immorality, and after that to death.