the picture of dorian gray

The book describes the life of Dorian Gray, a handsome young man who joins the talented painter Basil Hallward, who sees Durian as a source of inspiration for his art. Basil Hallward paints Gray’s personal portrait. The portrait is painted with incredible loyalty to its living source, and reflects the artist’s intense admiration for Dorian Gray, for his beauty and innocence.
In Basil’s workshop Gray meets Lord Henry, a man of high society, a cynic and hedonist, who becomes his good friend and accompanies him throughout the work. Lord Henry shares Gray’s views of beauty and youth with ideal and Dorian Gray is deeply influenced by his words. He is saddened by the impermanence of beauty and youth, and in his sorrow he expresses a wish, and wishes that he will always look young and beautiful as in the picture, while she grows older and uglier. Gray falls in love with a young actress, Sybil and Wayne, and breaks her heart. Her heartbreak is so great that she commits suicide. When Gray looks at his portrait hanging on the wall he notices a cruel expression that appears in him and understands that his will has indeed come true.
Lord Henry lends to young Gray a book that deeply influences him and causes him to turn to hedonistic life and to perform acts contrary to morality and virtues. When time passes, Gray stays as beautiful as he was on the day of his portrait painting and his portrait, which he hides in a locked room, getting old and ugly.
On the eve of his thirty-eighth birthday, Basil Hallward visits young Gray and claims that he is notorious for his actions. Gray shows Harvard his portrait, which now looks very ugly and evil, and Harvard, who sees the portrait as a sign of Gray’s moral decline, calls on him to ask forgiveness from God and change his actions. Gray is angry at Howard and his words and in response kills him with a knife. Gray calls his acquaintance, a chemist, and coaxes him to help him hide the body by arguing that if he refuses, Gray will reveal a great and terrible secret. The chemist sold an assistant to hide the body against his will and after a while committed suicide.
After years, the brother of Cybil Wayne, Gray’s former lover, decides to avenge his sister’s death and persecutes Gray. Finally, her brother died in an accident during a hunt.
The stormy events finally make Gray decide to change his ways and become better. He tells Lord Henry about his decision after, as a first step, he relinquished a possible relationship with a beautiful country girl. Lord Henry doubts his motives and suggests that Gray’s actions did not stem from compassion for the young woman, but out of pride and curiosity. Gray decides to check whether the good deed he has done is reflected in his picture and finds that instead of the picture going back to being as beautiful as a painting, it looks more horrific than ever. Gray ponders the possibility of confessing his actions, but finally retracts and decides to destroy his image, in which he hanged his moral decline. He tries to destroy it by stabbing a knife, the same knife in which he murdered his friend. When his servants enter the room, after this attempt, they find him lying on the floor, very old and ugly, the knife stuck in his chest and his picture as beautiful as the day it was painted.

Character-

Basil Halward is an artist that realy love to draw, and especially love to draw dorian gray. basil try to make dorian a good man like he was but dorian murder him because the portrait that change his life.

Sybil Vane was an amatur actress and Dorian girlfriends. she very very like him but he broke her heart and caused her to suicidal.

James Vane was Sybil Vane brother and he decided to try murder Dorian as revenge that dorian caused his Sybil to suicidal. James was died when he went hunting. its make dorian to think to be a good man.

Lord Henry make dorian to understand the life in a different way and this made him to understand the life batter.

before the picture: Dorian was a nice beautiful young man and he was very ingenuous and Basil beast friends.

after the picture: he was an ugly old man in the picture and the best friend of the Lord Henry

the picture is the mirror of the soul. explain:

in the start the picture was pretty because dorian was a good young man and after his bad change the picture become ugly and effected badly.

Reflection: my opinion on the book that he was very good book and I was realy enjoid to read it. because it was very interesting and exciting and I very like the end of the story.