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Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde, 1890/1891 · fictional

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Dorian Gray

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Half right. Dorian is beautiful, but the important feature is not prettiness — it is the disturbing innocence of a face that refuses to age.

What the author tells us

  • A young aristocrat whose portrait ages and corrupts while his own face remains untouched. His beauty is the trap, not the whole character.
“He was certainly wonderfully handsome, with his finely-curved scarlet lips, his frank blue eyes, his crisp gold hair.”— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)

What the author leaves to the reader

  • Everything beyond Wilde’s language. This is an interpretation of a fictional person, not a historical reconstruction.

Based on:

  • Wilde’s descriptions · late Victorian male fashion

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Dorian Gray

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Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde
Author text

A young aristocrat whose portrait ages and corrupts while his own face remains untouched. His beauty is the trap, not the whole character.

“He was certainly wonderfully handsome, with his finely-curved scarlet lips, his frank blue eyes, his crisp gold hair.”— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
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