Include example. Basil Hallward is an artist and a friend of Lord Henry. On his search for pure beauty to put into his paintings he met Dorian Gray. He befriends him‚ and starts to paint him in all sorts of environments. After a while he decides to paint Dorian as he is. Basil becomes obsessed with Dorian Gray after meeting him at the party. He claims that Dorian possesses a beauty so rare that it has helped him realize a new kind of art through Dorian. Dorian also helps Basil realize his artistic
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to be molded by Lord Henry‚ Basil Hallward‚ the philosophy of aestheticism
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born wealthy and had grown up handsome‚ honorable‚ and distinguished‚ and yet‚ he committed secret act of which he was thoroughly ashamed; while‚ Dorian Gray‚ is a handsome young man in which he captures the imagination of Basil Hallward and became sinful‚ he decided to kill Basil when he chooses to see the portrait that reveals the evil side of Dorian. They both have similar features. Edward Hyde is the evil side of Dr. Jekyll and he is
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Throughout the novel‚ The Picture of Dorian Gray‚ Dorian destroys the lives of multiple people through his slow progression of becoming evil. Through his words‚ actions‚ and relationships with Sibyl Vane‚ Alan Campbell‚ and Basil Hallward he brings their lives to an end by eroding the content of their character. In fact‚ his self-destruction originates by partaking in the evil acts Lord Henry has influenced him to perform. He was once a charming‚ kind‚ young boy who everyone loved‚ and evolved into
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constantly undergoing self-development as he is influenced by the ideas of morality that surround him; Basil Hallward represents the soul-fulfilling goodness he should seek‚ and Lord Henry Wotton represents the sinful life he desires. Through Lord Henry’s views of radical individualism and the beauty of his own portrait‚ Dorian Gray’s impressionable attitude develops into complete heartlessness as he
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painting of his portrait. Basil Hallward creates an elegant representation of Dorian’s juvenile characteristics‚ making Dorian handsome and full of warmth. This portrait is to an extreme liking of Dorian‚ and he becomes grasped on the idea that this magnificence will stay young always‚ but Dorian himself will continue to age. Lord Henry believes that this work of art is priceless‚ as he has always had a slight obsession with Dorian. He cannot accept the fact that Basil will not put the work on display
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all your adoration‚ worthy of the adoration of the world” (59). Sibyl has inner beauty and Basil realizes that‚ but Lord Henry and Dorian only see the physical or symbolic beauty of her form. This is contrary to the reoccurring idea that beauty is only skin deep like Dorian for example he is beautiful on the outside but horrible on the inside. “For the wonderful beauty that had so fascinated Basil Hallward‚ and many other besides him‚ seemed
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Oscar Wilde as Dorian Gray ‘I have put too much of myself in it’ (Wilde 12)‚ commented Basil Hallward‚ a fictional artist‚ about his newly completed masterpiece. Just like Oscar Wilde‚ the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890‚ revised 1891)‚ who put so much of his life into his novel; his experience‚ surroundings‚ and the global happenings of his time‚ strongly influenced the production of the speculative‚ philosophical‚ gothic novel. The author’s homosexuality‚ the ridiculous social standards
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Doctor Jekyll of Robert Louis Stephenson’s The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde‚ and Basil Hallward‚ of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian
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Biblical Comparison to The Picture of Dorian Gray The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is the story of a man who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for eternal youth. Dorian Gray is a young man of extraordinary beauty and innocence. Basil Hallward‚ a young talented artist‚ recognizes the purity and attractiveness of Dorian and he paints a portrait of him which captures all the life and loveliness of Dorian’s soul. Lord Henry Wotten‚ a member of the idle aristocracy of London‚ is enraptured
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