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A review by roswall
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
4.0
A clever look at vanity, pleasure, sin, and how it shapes a human being. There are fascinating parallels between Dorian and Lord Henry's fates, ideaology, and our time with our dual identity via profiles on social media and how some of us tries to keep the surface forever young with the help of plastics and surgery.
"The elder man lay back and looked at him with half-closed eyes. “By the way, Dorian,” he said, after a pause, “‘what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose’— how does the quotation run? —‘his own soul’?”"
"The elder man lay back and looked at him with half-closed eyes. “By the way, Dorian,” he said, after a pause, “‘what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose’— how does the quotation run? —‘his own soul’?”"