Dorian Gray and the Theme of Beauty

Commonly disgrace is symbolic whether it represents the good and worthiness in someone or the corruption in their very instinct is a different story. In the book, Dorian white-haired(a) by Oscar Wilde, fault is used to symbolize the corruption and degradation of Dorians understanding. Dorians own beauty could be considered a deformity and this deformity destroyed Dorians life. He has an unnatural, sur realistic beauty and its this beauty that causes him to become so evil and lessened. Its the reason behindhand his madness. He actu onlyy traded his intelligence to keep his youth and beauty If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow oldFor that- for that- I would befuddle everything I would give my spirit for that His beauty was so symbolic because it was pure, poverty-stricken and divine at the beginning of the novel yet it ended up cau lousinessg the decay and destruction of a young mans life. Though his looks should have been a gift it be came a curse that corrupted his soul and destroyed his life. He became too obsessed with his looks and thus muddled his soul. When Dorian saw the personation multi-color he soon begins to averse(p) it because I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young.It will never be older than this particular day in June I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. He in turn wishes that he was to stay young and beautiful and the portrait was to show all the signs of aging and sin. This is the beginning of Dorians troubles. He goes through his life looking young and innocent but all the sins he commits shows on the canvas, The terrible portrait whose changing features show him the real degradation of his lifeHe had a secret pleasure of the ill-shapen shadow that had to bear the burden that shouldve been his own. Any time Dorian does something sinful, selfish, roughshod, or falls to temptation it all shows up on the canvas to violate his idyllic beauty. A sense of infinite pity, not for himself, but for the painted image of himself, came over him. It has altered already and would alter more. For every sin he committed, a stain would fleck and wreck its fairness. Dorian knew that his soul was being corrupted because he could see it on the painting, but he took no notice. Since the signs of sin dont show up on him (but rather the painting) he participates in immoral temptations, He uses the painting as an outlet for all his desires.One example of his corruption is when he is cruel to Sibyl Vane that is the outgrowth act of evil he commits and its when the first sign of deformity shows on the painting. Dorian only loved Sibyl for her acting and when she acted badly in Romeo and Juliet, even though she did it because she loved Dorian becoming to learn that true love isnt what she had been acting, he completely abandons her and breaks her heart. He said that, There is always something ridiculous about the emotion of people whom one has ceased to love. Sibyl Vane seemed to him to be absurdly melodramatic.Her tears and sobs annoyed him. As soon as Dorian got home he first observe that the portrait changed, it revealed his roughness. It was described that The face appeared to him to be a little changed. The normal looked different. One would have said that there was a touch of cruelty in the mouth. This was the beginning of the corruption of Dorians soul, the corruption of the painting. He was unnecessarily cruel to Sibyl Vane and his soul was changed as a allow the deformity of the mouth on the painting was a visual similarity to Dorians soul and the corruption it was beginning to feel.Dorian Gray was the definition of beauty he was pure, innocent and stunning but he had a soul as corrupt as the seven frantically sins. He traded his soul to stay young forever but in turn a portrait of himself was a visual representation of his soul. everywhere time it grew deformed and hideous and this sh owed that Dorians own soul was also becoming deformed, corrupted and hideous. The degradation of the painting shows that corruption of the soul is a type of deformity.