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    The novel begins with Lord Henry Wotton watching his friend Basil Hallward paint the portrait of a handsome young man named Dorian Gray. Dorian wishes that he could stay as young as his portrait, and after making a Faustian bargain, remains youthful while his portrait ages and reflects his moral decay over decades of debauchery and sins. Eventually realizing his life has been horrible, Dorian tries to destroy the portrait but instead kills himself in the process. Oscar Wilde was an Irish writer and poet in the late 19th century known for his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and plays. He lived a double life as a rebel and eccentric dandy until his popularity declined when he was imprisoned for homosexual acts.

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    The novel begins with Lord Henry Wotton watching his friend Basil Hallward paint the portrait of a handsome young man named Dorian Gray. Dorian wishes that he could stay as young as his portrait, and after making a Faustian bargain, remains youthful while his portrait ages and reflects his moral decay over decades of debauchery and sins. Eventually realizing his life has been horrible, Dorian tries to destroy the portrait but instead kills himself in the process. Oscar Wilde was an Irish writer and poet in the late 19th century known for his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and plays. He lived a double life as a rebel and eccentric dandy until his popularity declined when he was imprisoned for homosexual acts.

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    The novel begins with Lord Henry Wotton watching his friend Basil Hallward paint the portrait of a handsome young man named Dorian Gray. Dorian wishes that he could stay as young as his portrait, and after making a Faustian bargain, remains youthful while his portrait ages and reflects his moral decay over decades of debauchery and sins. Eventually realizing his life has been horrible, Dorian tries to destroy the portrait but instead kills himself in the process. Oscar Wilde was an Irish writer and poet in the late 19th century known for his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and plays. He lived a double life as a rebel and eccentric dandy until his popularity declined when he was imprisoned for homosexual acts.

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    “THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY”-OSCAR WILD

    The novel begins with Lord Henry Wottom watching his friend Basil Hallward painting the
    portrait of a handsome young man called Dorian Gray. Lord Henry wants to know the subject
    painted in the picture. Dorian arrives later, meeting Lord Wotton, who explains his point of
    view of the world, making believe the young man that beauty is one of the most important
    things of life.

    Dorian and Lord Henry are both thrilled by the beauty of the portrait and the first one wishes
    that he can always stay as young as the picture and declares that he would give his soul for
    making this happen. In fact the image of himself becomes ugly under Dorian's sins.

    Dorian rejects Sibyl Vane, an actress who falls in love with him but she is not requite and
    soon she is not able to act anymore, so she kills herself. When Dorian realizes that the
    portrait holds the sign of his sins, he hides it in the attic.Over the next eighteen years he
    experiments with every kind of vice. At the end, realizing that his was a horrible life, he tries
    to destroy the picture with a knife, but doing it he kills himself.

    OSCAR WILDE

    Wilde was born in 1854 and grew up in Dublin. During his studies he became a part of the
    Aesthetic movement.

    He was spokesman (portavoce) for the school of ‘art for art’s sake’ (l’arte per l’amore
    dell’arte). He settled in London and became a popular and eccentric dandy who charmed
    everybody with his wit (intelligente) and brilliant conversation.

    He published poems, essays, witty comedies (commedie brillanti) and his famous novel
    ‘The picture of Dorian Gray’. His popularity declined sharply (rapidamente) when he was
    arrested because accused of having a homosexual relationship. After his release from
    prison Wilde emigrated to France, where he lived in poverty under an assumed name.

    Wilde adopted “the aesthetic ideal”. He lived in the double role of rebel and dandy. The
    Wildean dandy is an aristocratic artist whose elegance is a symbol of the superiority of his
    spirit. He wanted to shock and asked for absolute freedom.

    He believed that only the art, as the cult of the beauty, could prevent the murder of the soul
    (spirito) and also he thought the artist is an alien in a materialist world.

    He died in 1900

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