A beautiful portrait of their master as they had always known him.
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: Returning home, he noticed the portrait had developed a sneer of cruelty. Dorian Gray
: Under Lord Henry's influence, Dorian spent the next eighteen years in a spiral of debauchery and sin.
: Dorian fell in love with an actress, Sibyl Vane, but cruelly rejected her after a poor performance. A beautiful portrait of their master as they
: While Dorian’s face remained flawlessly young, the portrait in his attic became a grotesque monster, reflecting every sin and act of malice. The Climax
In a final moment of despair, Dorian grabbed a knife and stabbed the canvas to destroy the evidence of his sins. A crash and a scream were heard by his servants. When they broke into the room, they found: : Dorian fell in love with an actress,
Dorian Gray was a young man of extraordinary beauty in Victorian London. His friend, the artist Basil Hallward, painted a portrait of Dorian that captured his youthful perfection. During the sitting, Dorian met the cynical Lord Henry Wotton, who preached a philosophy of hedonism—that youth and beauty were the only things worth living for.