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Oscar Wilde, as did many authors of that period, enjoyed the use of words. Often, where one word would suffice, a sentence was thought better. The Faustian motif of the novel - the willingness to sell one's soul to the Devil for worldly vanity - unfolded from this idle comment, together with the bizarre imagination of a brooding artist.
In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde produced a work very typical of the mood of the period as well as of his own personal love of paradox. The concept of a painting aging instead of the artist was and is quite unique, and in the end when he kills the 'montrous soul-life' held within the painting, it is his corpse that is found at the end. Neat! Eshval's email
BlackMarquessa@gmail.com
Eshval's slightly off-center (unofficial) blog.
http://blackmarquessa.blogspot.com/
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http://cirquecarnivale.wordpress.com/
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