The Picture of Dorian Gray

The novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray is a very intriguing story that exemplifies many dark and elusive themes tat hint to Dorian's actions throughout the story. The dark themes entail in the scenes and in his self portrait. The decay of the picture reveals the greed and evil behind his actions to be eating him alive but yet his self image stays young and handsome. The author in the novel displays the underlying themes as Dorian does one thing after another to save his own sanity. But in the end his greed to stay young forever ended up tarnishing his reputation and character, thus killing him in the end.  When Dorian finished the painting he kept it locked inside an attic and kept hidden away so  no one would would share in this one of a kind creation. The picture would change daily and this intrigued mister Gray to the point where eventually became to fear this painting. The painting and its constant changes took control of Dorian's personality and turned him into a maniac. His obsession for the picture deepened as the novel goes on towards the point of no return. He did not want anyone to see or know about his painting because it would've brought about much commotion into his life which he did not want. Dorian began to keep to himself and secluded those who cared about him. When one of his friends came by to visit and to see the picture. Dorian reacted spontaneously by killing him and leaving his body to rot in the attic. The Author of this novel focused severely on the self destruction of his character through the method of insanity. The picture of the Dorian Gray stresses on the idea that the pictures destruction led to the physical and emotional destruction of his character .