Review: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Book information Title: The Picture of Dorian Gray Author: Oscar Wilde Genre: (Gothic) Horror, Fantasy & Classics Where to buy: Penguin Random House , Barnes & Noble , Bookshop.org Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself. The novel focus around the themes of beauty, youth, boyhood, purity, obsession, desires (such as Hedonism), corruption, vanity, soul and body, the influence of art, spiritual sensory experience vs pleasurable experience and internal vs external influence. Mirrors but also the portrait itself symbolises inner vs outer beauty and also leaves room for self-reflection. Whereas the portrait in the story is a central role to showcast the soul and its decay through sinful acts. Later on, the books that are mentioned are representin...