Dorian Gray

Hello people, I am Laura!

Today I am going to talk about a book I have just finished reading named " The picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde.

This book is really interesting and peculiar. The main character of the book is Dorian Gray a very attractive handsome man. An artist named Basil Hallward paints a portrait of him impressed by his beauty .Dorian feels worried about losing his beauty and because of some magical, strange event, the portrait starts to became older instead of him.

Dorian starts to live a life full of sins and satisfaction. In a particular way Dorian is showing us a life guided by his own senses and desires. By this time his picture apart from being old is getting deformed because of his vain and bad life.

Another character of note is Sibyl Vane, a poor actress who Dorian falls in love with. He destroys her career and finally she kills herself drinking prussic acid.

In the end Dorian finally kills Basil the artist, and with the same knife he kills himself stabbing it into the picture. The police find Dorian’s body old and in a very bad way and the picture in its original form.

If you are interested in the plot of the book you should read it! It is really good! There is also a very old film of this book but this October a new one will be premiered.