The Picture of Dorian Gray
...Dorian Gray,” withit contentious themes of duplicity, hedonistic and worship of beauty and youth. While the book’s decadence and homo-eroticism shocked his contemporaries at the time of its publication, the theme on the worship of beauty and youth remain very much alive in this time and age. Nowhere in the book is this theme best exemplified than in Henry’s comment to the effect that “because you possess marvelous youth, and the youth is a thing worth having (Wilde, 1908, pp. 29)”. Today’s, both the youthful and the aging would perfectly relate to the book’s character, Dorian Gray, who strongly believed... It is now almost a century and a half since Oscar Wilde published the book “The Picture of Dorian...