Dorian Gray Immoral Essay

Immorality is acting in a way that goes against ones moral standards. Throughout the book, the theme of immoral actions is reoccurring in many different ways. During this era, meeting moral standards was very important to society. There was a fine line between what was moral and immoral. Oscar Wilde uses a variety of characters and situation to show that much of this book could be seen as immoral. The Picture of Dorian Gray presents many different aspects to it that could seen as immoral, such as, murder and hatred, Narcissism and Hedonism. Murder and hatred are two of the most reoccurring themes throughout the book. One of the main instances that portrays hate and murder involves Basil and Dorian. Dorian is unhappy with his self-imagine in the portrait and he blames Basil, the artist for this.
“I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day -- mock me horribly!" (Wilde 28).Dorian was obsessed with his youth and beauty and he did not want to lose that. Dorian regrets that Basil painted the portrait, because someday he will no longer have the beauty that he was illustrated with in the picture. “There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, and conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people” (NIV 1 Timothy 3:1-5).Dorian became very conceited with himself and wanted to be seen with beauty by