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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) was Oscar Wilde's only novel, naturally rife with witty banter and homo-eroticism. Blond, beautiful Dorian is The Muse for the talented artist Basil Hallward. Dorian, gifted with incredible beauty, is a thoughtless and happy young man until the day that he comes to Hallward's house to see the unveiling of the artist's latest masterpiece — the eponymous portrait. There, he meets Lord Henry, who with a few casual words, instills the fear of aging and decrepitude into Dorian's young, impressionable heart. Dorian is greatly troubled, and when Basil brings the portrait out and unveils it, its beauty hurts Dorian so much that he exclaims he would sell his soul for his painting to age in his place.From that day on, Lord Henry, rather than the adoring Basil Hallward, becomes the driving force in Dorian's life, leading him down a path of sensuality and pleasure. Dorian begins to notice, after he cruelly rejects the young actress who has fallen in love with him, that his portrait changes — a dark smirk comes over the once innocent smile, just to begin. Years pass. The portrait grows older. Dorian does not.This story was used as evidence against Wilde and resulted in him being prosecuted for homosexuality and sentenced to two years hard labor.Wilde's novel has been adapted for film, television, and stage at least two dozen times. One of the most famous adaptations is a 1945 film directed by Albert Lewin that starred George Sanders as Lord Henry, Hurd Hatfield as Dorian, Donna Reed as Basil's niece Gladys (a wholly different character in the film), and 20-year-old Angela Lansbury as Sibyl Vane. The 2009 film Dorian Gray starred Ben Barnes in the title role and Colin Firth as Lord Henry. It has also been adapted by Big Finish as a series of full cast audios titled The Confessions of Dorian Gray with Alexander Vlahos playing the title character, who reprised his role in an adaption of the original novel and a live-action short film. | |
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This Was His True Form | |
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This Was His True Form: At the end, when Dorian stabs the picture, thus killing himself, the portrait becomes pretty again, but his body becomes mutated, reflecting his own inner corruption and age. His servants can't even tell it's his corpse until they recognize the rings on his fingers. | |
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Greedy Jew | |
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Greedy Jew: Isaacs, the theater owner who puts on Sybil Vane's productions, is a particularly anti-Semitic example even for the Victorian era. He's repeatedly described as old, vile and filthy, with an enormous diamond on his shirt. Although he professes a passion for Shakespeare, his productions are of an exceedingly shabby quality and show how much Sybil is slumming. He seems to have sexual designs on Sybil as well. | |
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Rage Against the Reflection | |
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Rage Against the Reflection: When Dorian becomes angry looking at his unmarred face he smashes the mirror beneath his heel. He later stabs his portrait, a fatal mistake. | |
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Shrine to Self | |
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Shrine to Self: When Dorian isn't out getting debauched, he spends his time contemplating his portrait. | |
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Tall, Dark, and Handsome | |
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Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Dorian often becomes this in adaptations instead of blond-haired as he was in the novel, partly because of changing beauty standards. | |
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The Sociopath | |
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The Sociopath: Dorian Gray, after he sells his soul for eternal youth and rationalizes that hedonism is the only worthy use of his time. | |
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Milholland Relationship Moment | |
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Milholland Relationship Moment: Basil is almost insulted when his confession gets more disappointment than condemnation from Dorian. | |
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Deal with the Devil | |
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Deal with the Devil: More or less how the painting becomes Dorian's Soul Jar. Unusually for this trope, it seems to have been done totally by accident; Dorian just makes a general oath about how he'd give his soul to never age like his portrait would, and the Devil was apparently listening. | |
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Fictional Painting | |
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Fictional Painting: The titular portrait is probably one of the most famous examples, and is an example of some other painting/portrait tropes as well: Creepy Changing Painting: It has the unique property of its subject becoming gradually more distorted and grotesque as time goes on, mirroring the real Dorian's own moral decay and displaying the physical decay he would have suffered without it. Phantom-Zone Picture: The painting is a Soul Jar variant. | |
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Looks Worth Killing For | |
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Looks Worth Killing For: Dorian gives his soul up in exchange for eternal youth and beauty. Alas, his portrait changes over time to show him his inner decay. | |
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Wants a Prize for Basic Decency | |
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Wants a Prize for Basic Decency: Near the end Dorian expects his picture to change back because he was considerate enough to break up with the last girl that fell for him instead of eloping with her. It doesn't change the portrait at all, and Lord Henry even laughs at the idea that this did the girl any favours: her prospects might not have been ruined, but she still loved Dorian and will suffer for the abandonment. | |
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Prince Charming | |
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Prince Charming: Trope Namer in that this is the earliest known use of this exact term, but a deconstruction of the trope itself. While characters of this type existed before the novel, Dorian is the first referred to as "Prince Charming" verbatim, making this a Dead Unicorn Trope or Unbuilt Trope. | |
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Incorruptible Pure Pureness | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_289008dc | comment |
Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Henry corrupts every acquaintance of his, except Basil, the most moral character in the novel. Basil himself is aware of Henry's unfortunate habit of doing this, and also makes unsuccessful attempts to intervene when he sees signs that Dorian has been corrupted. | |
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Beauty Equals Goodness | |
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Beauty Equals Goodness: Deconstructed. Dorian looks so beautiful and innocent that no one believes all the horrible things he's said to do. However, Dorian really would look ugly due to his advancing age and the effects of his vices on his body if not for the picture. This trope was commonly believed during the Victorian era. | |
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Analogy Backfire | |
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Analogy Backfire: Basil's early comparison of Dorian to Narcissus, as he realizes much later. Narcissus isn't famous for his beauty - he's famous for his vanity. | |
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The Ingenue | |
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The Ingenue: The beautiful and innocent young Sybil Vane. | |
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Older Than They Look | |
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Older Than They Look: Dorian keeps his youthful looks for about two decades (many adaptations make it seem longer). Many readers assume that Dorian receives immortality, but this is never stated. He simply doesn't show the effects of age, and it's not actually impossible to look young into your late thirties; it's more that a hedonistic life of drugs, alcohol, and casual sex is really not conducive to that. We can't be sure if Dorian is immune to death from old age or not as he doesn't live long enough to find out. | |
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Gender Flip | |
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Gender Flip: A 1983 TV movie called The Sins of Dorian Gray made the lead a woman (and yet, still not blonde). The teen horror novel Mirror, Mirror does the same thing. (she isn't blonde either) | |
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The Mirror Shows Your True Self | |
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The Mirror Shows Your True Self: The teen horror novel Mirror, Mirror replaces the portrait with a mirror in which the protagonist's reflection grows uglier in line with her personality. | |
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Anguished Declaration of Love | |
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Anguished Declaration of Love: From Basil to Dorian. Dorian is surprised— and then ignores it as he doesn't want Basil to know about the painting. | |
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Rapid Aging | |
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Rapid Aging: When Dorian can't take the portrait's honesty anymore, he stabs it, which causes him to instantaneously take all the age and wicked infirmities to which he had been previously spared. However, he's only around 40 years old by this time. It's the knife that kills him. Stabbing your Soul Jar is a bad idea. | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Each philosophy impersonated by the mentor characters. | |
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TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers | |
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The Last of These Is Not Like the Others: Lord Henry uses this. | |
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Properly Paranoid | |
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Properly Paranoid: Dorian once James Vane returns. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: Dorian writes something on a card and shows it to Alan Campbell to blackmail him. We never learn what Dorian wrote. Given Alan's horrified reaction about being ruined, as well as other young men from Dorian's sordid past being described as having been ruined and shunned by society, one can guess that it was related to homosexuality, which in Victorian society was a crime, and would ruin one's life if found out (as indeed Wilde himself was also involved in just such a 'scandal'). | |
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Blessed with Suck | |
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Blessed with Suck: It's indicated that although the picture hides the effects on Dorian's appearance from opium addiction and probably several STDs, he still feels the pain associated with them. | |
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Wide-Eyed Idealist | |
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Wide-Eyed Idealist: Basil, who is naive enough to trust even Henry. | |
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"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight | |
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"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Basil attempts this when he finds out what his beloved Dorian has become and what has happened to his painting of Dorian himself, unfortunately resulting in his death. | |
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Offstage Villainy | |
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Offstage Villainy: Even though the story is centered around corruption and debauchery, most of Dorian's felonies are only touched upon in the actual prose. | |
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Vain Sorceress | |
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Vain Sorceress: Dorian is the most famous male one. He desires to be youthful, handsome, rich and beloved forever and (accidentally) uses magic in order to achieve this goal. | |
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"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot | |
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"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Basil realizes that Lord Henry could have a strong influence on Dorian and begs him not to corrupt him, but Henry goes right ahead and does it almost immediately just because he can. Basil recognizes his mistake and regrets it. The morning after Dorian snubbed Sybil, he realizes that he'd probably made a mistake, and decides to make up with her. Unfortunately, Dorian finds out that Sybil committed suicide during the night, which is when he plunges headlong into hedonism. | |
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The Conscience | |
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The Conscience: Basil for Dorian, being a good man of sufficient social standing to influence Dorian; the portrait as an inanimate version, as it rubs Dorian's face in his ever-worsening morality. | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Dorian's reaction to Sibyl's death is to acknowledge that it sounds like a tragic novel. | |
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Break the Cutie | |
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The morning after Dorian snubbed Sybil, he realizes that he'd probably made a mistake, and decides to make up with her. Unfortunately, Dorian finds out that Sybil committed suicide during the night, which is when he plunges headlong into hedonism. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: Dorian stabs his painting, but this only ends up killing him, reverting his body to its actual physical condition and restoring his image in the painting to its original beauty. | |
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Evil Makes You Ugly | |
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Evil Makes You Ugly: A major theme in the series, in accordance with Victorian society believing this trope. Evil would make Dorian ugly if not for the picture taking the ugliness upon itself; the sight of its gradual transformation is a major factor in Dorian realizing just how far he's fallen. | |
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Blank Slate | |
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Blank Slate: Dorian starts out the book apparently without any convictions or personal beliefs, leading him to be shaped very powerfully from a few casual words from Lord Henry. | |
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Immortality Inducer | |
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Immortality Inducer: Some adaptations make Dorian immortal, possibly due to the common interpretation that Dorian is immortal in the original story. While Dorian does not show signs of aging, the text never overtly states that he's actually immortal, and notes that despite his youthful appearance, he still feels the ravages of age, as well as the damage his lifestyle incurs. | |
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Tears of Joy | |
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Tears of Joy: Dorian after he discovers that James Vane is dead. | |
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Loving a Shadow | |
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Loving a Shadow: Dorian doesn't love Sibyl but the characters she plays. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_537dd8fe | type |
Affably Evil | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_537dd8fe | comment |
Affably Evil: Downplayed with Henry in that he's not evil so much as selfish and irresponsible. But he is a witty and charming man whose decadent influence leads to Dorian's downfall, and he does knowingly pursue Dorian despite Basil's pleas for him not to. Dorian himself eventually becomes more Faux Affably Evil. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_5561811d | type |
EthicalHedonist | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_5561811d | comment |
Ethical Hedonist: Downplayed. It turns out that while he talks a great deal about losing oneself in idle pleasures, Lord Henry doesn't have the heart (or maybe just the nerve) to really act like the complete Straw Nihilist he talks like. In fact, he's actually rather stodgy and moral by nature (which is, of course, why he's so naive about the effect he has on Dorian— he really doesn't get the depths that people can sink to, let alone his student). | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_5561811d | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_5fcb9ad1 | type |
Time Skip | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_5fcb9ad1 | comment |
Time Skip: There's one spanning about 18 years, occurring after Dorian fully embraces the degenerate lifestyle he becomes addicted to. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_60547993 | type |
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_60547993 | comment |
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Basil after Dorian Gray gets engaged to Sybil. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_60547993 | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_6056f853 | type |
Homoerotic Subtext | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_6056f853 | comment |
Homoerotic Subtext: So much that a scene between Dorian and Basil was used as evidence against Wilde during his criminal trial for homosexuality. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_6056f853 | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_63be4131 | type |
Pretty Boy | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_63be4131 | comment |
Pretty Boy: Dorian Gray. Lampshaded to hell and back. He's described as an intoxicatingly, androgynously beautiful and sweet blond young man. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_642594ea | type |
Pygmalion Plot | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_642594ea | comment |
Pygmalion Plot: Henry's feelings for Dorian. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_642594ea | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_658f7193 | type |
Lack of Empathy | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_658f7193 | comment |
Lack of Empathy: Dorian, made plain when he spurns Sybil and then a major part of his character. But he still feels sorry for Basil after his confession, making Basil an absolute woobie. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_658f7193 | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_66755d29 | type |
Author Avatar | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_66755d29 | comment |
Author Avatar: Three of them. Wilde described the main characters by saying, "Basil Hallward is what I think I am; Lord Henry what the world thinks me; Dorian what I would like to be in other ages, perhaps." | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_66755d29 | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_6977c45e | type |
Purple Prose | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_6977c45e | comment |
Purple Prose: The whole book, arguably, but particularly Chapter 11. It can be summarized as, "He read books, did things, and had lots of pretty stuff." This may have been to show the reader the tediousness of Dorian's hedonism and his consequently jaded attitude. It also serves to compare Dorian's appearance to the items he speaks of. The jewels, etc., are items which one acquires as beauty that can last forever. (It's also speculated that when Wilde's publisher told him that the book was too short, he padded it with those descriptions.) | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_6977c45e | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_6a696742 | type |
The Power of Love | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_6a696742 | comment |
The Power of Love: "Basil would have helped him to resist Lord Henry’s influence, and the still more poisonous influences that came from his own temperament." | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_6a696742 | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_6b35bdff | type |
Serious Business | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_6b35bdff | comment |
Serious Business: Dorian cruelly spurns Sybil after she gives a poor theatrical performance. He fell in love with her acting, not her. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_6b35bdff | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Dorian (the name of a tribe allowing homosexuality), Harry ('abuse, destroy'), Saint Basil, the Confessor. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_6c75e0e4 | type |
Beware the Silly Ones | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_6c75e0e4 | comment |
Beware the Silly Ones: Lord Henry gets lots of humorous lines and turns of phrase, to the point that one character calls him "Prince Paradox." Despite this, his influence over Dorian is deadly serious and sends the young man down a dark path. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_6c75e0e4 | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_6d332aea | type |
Driven to Suicide | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_6d332aea | comment |
Driven to Suicide: Dorian manages to do this to Sybil Vane, Alan Campbell, a "wretched boy in the Guards", and ultimately himself. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_6d57a234 | type |
Lemony Narrator | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_6d57a234 | comment |
Lemony Narrator: As would be expected from a novel by famous wit Oscar Wilde, the narration is full of cynical observations on Victorian society. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_6d57a234 | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_729c69f3 | type |
Politically Incorrect Villain | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_729c69f3 | comment |
Politically Incorrect Villain: Lord Henry is the tempter of Dorian into uncaring hedonism and a vicious misogynist who loudly talks about how evil and stupid women are on many occasions. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_729c69f3 | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_7315fd38 | type |
Covers Always Lie | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_7315fd38 | comment |
Covers Always Lie: Look on Amazon.com. Ninety percent of the covers of this book give Dorian hair that is black as night, while he is explicitly described in the book, several times, as being blond. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_736d791f | type |
Adaptational Badass | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_736d791f | comment |
Adaptational Badass: In some adaptations, Dorian's unchanging looks come with a Healing Factor that makes him virtually immune to physical damage. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_77aae115 | type |
Hated by All | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_77aae115 | comment |
Hated by All: Dorian's grandfather Lord Kelso was by all accounts a nasty old goat; even his fellow aristocrats despised him. Dorian is an interesting case; his reputation is infamous, plenty of people hate him, yet he's still able to move around in the best circles. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_77aae115 | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_7916f22e | type |
Creepy Changing Painting | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_7916f22e | comment |
Creepy Changing Painting: It has the unique property of its subject becoming gradually more distorted and grotesque as time goes on, mirroring the real Dorian's own moral decay and displaying the physical decay he would have suffered without it. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_7916f22e | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_7a82c3d2 | type |
All Love Is Unrequited | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_7a82c3d2 | comment |
All Love Is Unrequited: Dorian finds Henry fascinating. Likewise, Basil is clearly enamored with Dorian, but Dorian thinks they're just friends. Women fall for Dorian constantly, he has fun with them for a time and then leaves them ruined (to be precise, he elopes with them and then abandons them, which in Victorian England was a social death sentence for women). | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_7b7182fe | type |
Closet Key | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_7b7182fe | comment |
Closet Key: From Basil's confusion about his feelings for Dorian, it didn't seem like he had loved men before. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_7b7182fe | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_803e3201 | type |
Satanic Archetype | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_803e3201 | comment |
Satanic Archetype: Lord Henry. He is an undoubtedly corrupting influence on Dorian, being the character that is most at fault for Dorian's fall into debauchery. Bonus points for also being present when Dorian states he would give his soul to remain like the painting. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_808cbaeb | type |
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_808cbaeb | comment |
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In Sibyl's plans for James's future (Chapter V). | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_813afa05 | type |
Defiled Forever | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_813afa05 | comment |
Women fall for Dorian constantly, he has fun with them for a time and then leaves them ruined (to be precise, he elopes with them and then abandons them, which in Victorian England was a social death sentence for women). | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_820ac351 | type |
It Amused Me | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_820ac351 | comment |
It Amused Me: Lord Henry's reason for attempting to influence everyone he comes into contact with with his hedonistic views. May have been For the Evulz depending upon your interpretation of Lord Henry's character and the degree of his complicity in Dorian's descent into debauchery. Dorian was also majorly guilty of this after embracing Lord Henry's hedonistic ideals when he starts corrupting people out of his own accord. Needless to say, Dorian's actions were more obviously for the evulz than his mentor's. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_82a4fadc | type |
Our Liches Are Different | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_82a4fadc | comment |
Our Liches Are Different: Dorian could be considered a sort of lich, under a loose definition of the term, though it's unknown if he actually got immortality or not. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_82a4fadc | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_842426f3 | type |
Grande Dame | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_842426f3 | comment |
Grande Dame: Every woman in the book besides Sybil, her mother, and Hetty fall into this category. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_898ff050 | type |
Villain Protagonist | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_898ff050 | comment |
Villain Protagonist: Dorian doesn't start as one, but... | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_8e6d6bc | type |
Immortality Promiscuity | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_8e6d6bc | comment |
Immortality Promiscuity: The ever-youthful Dorian is said to have "ruined" many women, and is heavily implied to have had male lovers as well. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_8ed5c6e4 | type |
Asshole Victim | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_8ed5c6e4 | comment |
Asshole Victim: Dorian himself suffers this in the Deadpool Killustrated comic book when he's brutally murdered by Deadpool. Even though the Deadpool in that story was a murderous psychopath, it's pretty difficult to feel much sympathy for Dorian, considering all the horrible things he's done. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_9053903 | type |
Ignored Epiphany | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_9053903 | comment |
Ignored Epiphany: Dorian resolves to become good in order to make his horrible picture, and thus his soul, beautiful again. However, he expects to see immediate results in the picture before he's actually done anything to redeem himself, expecting that merely saying it to the air would earn him some redemption points. Instead, it shows the hypocrisy inherent in his dishonest atonement. After only a few minutes, he rationalizes keeping his crimes a secret and becomes thoroughly evil once again. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_90d44f44 | type |
Karmic Death | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_90d44f44 | comment |
Karmic Death: Dorian, who dies after damaging the source of his vanity after killing his only friend, with Dorian's corpse becoming immediately hideous and the painting reverting back to its pristine state. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_96144372 | type |
Aristocrats Are Evil | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_96144372 | comment |
Aristocrats Are Evil: Henry has a corrupting philosophy, though he never actually acts on it himself. Dorian becomes corrupted by his condition, and his wealth and status give him virtually free reign to indulge all of his vices. A straighter example would be Dorian's grandfather Lord Kelso who hired an adventurer to kill his commoner son-in-law. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_9830549e | type |
He-Man Woman Hater | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_9830549e | comment |
He-Man Woman Hater: Lord Henry regularly makes disparaging comments about women. Dorian is shocked by these comments at first but soon begins to absorb some of Henry's beliefs. This culminates in Dorian behaving incredibly cruelly to Sybil and justifying himself that it was no big deal because women enjoy feeling sorry for themselves (something Henry told him). Sybil commits suicide soon after. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_99ddfcec | type |
Unwitting Instigator of Doom | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_99ddfcec | comment |
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: The events of the novel are arguably all Lord Henry's fault, as it's his speech to Dorian about the fleeting nature of youth that leads the lad to make his fatal wish. While Henry does deliberately corrupt Dorian, he doesn't realize exactly how far it's going to lead. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_9d12bbc1 | type |
Foreshadowing | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: After Dorian's Deal with the Devil, Basil decides to destroy the painting with a knife. As it turns out, this foreshadows both his death and Dorian's. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_a0a005d1 | type |
Protagonist Journey to Villain | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_a0a005d1 | comment |
Protagonist Journey to Villain: The main plot of the story centers on Dorian's fall from innocent carefree youth to a cruel, ruthless hedonist and murderer. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_a1b141f4 | type |
My God, What Have I Done? | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_a1b141f4 | comment |
My God, What Have I Done?: Dorian has a brief bout of this towards the end of the novel where he considers trying to atone for everything he's done, but by this point it's too late. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_a2492aff | type |
Dogged Nice Guy | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_a2492aff | comment |
Dogged Nice Guy: Basil. Good person, nice friend, but Dorian seems merely bored by his advice and entirely oblivious to any romantic interest. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_a4414a05 | type |
Adaptation Dye-Job | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_a4414a05 | comment |
Adaptation Dye-Job: In the original novel, Dorian was blond. In most modern adaptations, he's portrayed with black hair. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_a70223 | type |
Karma Houdini | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_a70223 | comment |
Karma Houdini: Lord Henry. Granted, he's grumpy about getting old, and his wife has left him, but nothing of any great consequence happens to him. Some have argued that Lord Henry doesn't merit any special punishment because he's simply amoral — he talks a big game, but he hasn't the courage (as Dorian has) to cross the line into outright evil. | |
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Love at First Sight | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_a8dcb1d7 | comment |
Love at First Sight: Basil meets Dorian at a party, and essentially falls in love with him upon their first conversation. | |
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Dramatic Irony | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_ab5eea65 | comment |
Dramatic Irony: At least twice; the ever innocent Basil cannot see, or refuses to acknowledge, that the boy he fell in love with is slipping further and further into corruption. This proves to be fatal. Then, after Basil's murder, Lord Henry tells Dorian that he wishes he knew somebody who had committed a real murder. Dramatic Irony indeed. | |
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Fatal Flaw | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_aba8065b | comment |
Fatal Flaw: Dorian's narcissism, Basil's worship of Dorian, Henry's detachment from the world... the list goes on and on. This is Gothic Horror after all. | |
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For the Evulz | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_adfd3165 | comment |
Lord Henry's reason for attempting to influence everyone he comes into contact with with his hedonistic views. May have been For the Evulz depending upon your interpretation of Lord Henry's character and the degree of his complicity in Dorian's descent into debauchery. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_af4d6174 | type |
Setting Update | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_af4d6174 | comment |
Setting Update: The 1970 film version updates the setting to then-contemporary times. The more open attitudes about homosexuality and premarital sex shift the plot around a little, but it still works. Will Self's screenplay-turned-novel Dorian updates the setting to early 80s London art scene and introduces a Tragic AIDS Story subplot as well as drawing parallels between Dorian and Princess Diana. The teen horror novel Mirror, Mirror sets it in a modern day (1992) high school. Rick Reed's A Face Without A Heart updates the setting to early 2000s America (the picture is now a hologram), changes the characters' names (and makes Henry "Henrietta", a drag performer), and is more explicit about the gay sex and drug usage A semi-staged version was released online in March 2021, set in the present day. In this version, Dorian's online presence remains young and beautiful while his face ages and corrupts. It's set during the Covid pandemic, and he stars wearing a mask in public for health reasons, but is soon wearing one to hide his face. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_b04fdcc4 | type |
Loners Are Freaks | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_b04fdcc4 | comment |
Loners Are Freaks: Basil likes shutting himself up for months, which is treated as a striking eccentricity. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_b06bbf4b | type |
Be Careful What You Wish For | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_b06bbf4b | comment |
Be Careful What You Wish For: Dorian casually mentions how he wishes the painting would age instead of him. After this actually happens, he's shown indulging in one hedonistic pleasure after another but never being genuinely happy, as he's always terrified someone might find it and not only discover his supernatural secret but all the things he's done that the painting has helped him avoid detection for. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_b3ce2f0a | type |
Deathless and Debauched | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_b3ce2f0a | comment |
Deathless and Debauched: It's left ambiguous as to whether or not Gray is truly immortal or if his enchanted portrait merely prevents him from showing any outward sign of old age (though many adaptations pick the former). However, he shows a consistent desire for vice, taking on many lovers, wearing sumptuous clothes and jewellery, even developing a hunger for opium towards the end. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_b4a6ae4c | type |
Everyone Has Standards | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_b4a6ae4c | comment |
Everyone Has Standards: Dorian's grandfather, Lord Kelso, hired an adventurer to challenge his commoner son-in-law to a duel so he could be killed. While the gentry couldn't understand why Dorian's mother chose somebody below her station, even they were appalled by Kelso's cruelty. According to Harry's uncle, "He ate his chop alone in the club for some time". | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_b58b4e3c | type |
Too Dumb to Live | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_b58b4e3c | comment |
Too Dumb to Live: Dorian, at the end. He stabs his withered portrait in an attempt to destroy the evidence of his own immorality, but since the portrait is magically linked to his soul, the knife ends up in Dorian's heart, killing him. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_b5c56995 | type |
Corrupt the Cutie | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_b5c56995 | comment |
Corrupt the Cutie: Dorian Gray starts out as an innocent if not outstandingly virtuous Manchild. Then Basil introduces him to Lord Henry, a hedonist who tells Dorian that only youth and beauty matter in life. The impressionable Dorian really takes this to heart and impulsively makes the Deal with the Devil that starts off the plot of the book. Unfortunately, Lord Henry sticks around and continues to malignly influence Dorian, the effect amplified by Dorian becoming The Soulless as a result of said deal. Unsurprisingly, it gets worse as the plot goes on. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_b6cebad3 | type |
Double Standard | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_b6cebad3 | comment |
Double Standard: Dorian leaves a string of socially ruined women (and men) behind him, but is still accepted in society since it wasn't him who was disgraced. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_bb18a227 | type |
It's All About Me | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_bb18a227 | comment |
It's All About Me: Basil's nicknaming Dorian "Narcissus" in Chapter 1 is more dead-on than he'd realized; Dorian considers wasting three hours of his valuable time enough of an injury to him that he cancels his upcoming engagement with Sybil. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_bbd9b10a | type |
Phantom-Zone Picture | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_bbd9b10a | comment |
Phantom-Zone Picture: The painting is a Soul Jar variant. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_be0ad6b7 | type |
Used to Be a Sweet Kid | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_be0ad6b7 | comment |
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: "Kid" isn't exactly the right term, but before being exposed to Lord Henry's hedonism, Dorian was a noble, kindhearted young gentleman. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_bee8baee | type |
Faint in Shock | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_bee8baee | comment |
Faint in Shock: Dorian faints at a dinner party that he is hosting after he looks out of the window and sees James Vane, who has threatened to kill him, lurking outside. | |
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The '80s | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_c10da874 | comment |
Will Self's screenplay-turned-novel Dorian updates the setting to early 80s London art scene and introduces a Tragic AIDS Story subplot as well as drawing parallels between Dorian and Princess Diana. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_c1ee9854 | type |
Stab the Picture | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_c1ee9854 | comment |
Stab the Picture: Dorian makes a Deal with the Devil that lets him keep his youthful good looks in defiance of his age and lifestyle of debauchery—in his place, his painted portrait shows the effects of age, drugs, and (probably) several venereal diseases. At the climax, Dorian gets furious at having such a tangible reminder of his own misdeeds, and he stabs the painting with a knife. This is a mistake. Since the picture and Dorian are magically linked, the knife winds up in Dorian's own chest, killing him. This also breaks the original magic, so the painting is restored to its original state, while Dorian becomes so deformed, his own house staff don't recognize him when they find his corpse. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: In the 2008 Marvel Comics adaptation by Roy Thomas, when Basil Hallward is talking about Dorian's ruined acquaintances, he mentions "Lord Kent's only son" and a panel depicting Lord Kent◊ gives him small round wire-framed glasses and dark hair with a distinctive spit curl. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_c868a42a | type |
Freudian Excuse | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_c868a42a | comment |
Freudian Excuse: Dorian had a really horrible childhood; his aristocratic mother married a soldier below her social station. Her father hired an adventurer to kill her husband under the pretext of a duel. She then died of a broken heart and Dorian was left with under the care of his cruel and uncaring grandfather. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_c8e375d3 | type |
Lover and Beloved | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_c8e375d3 | comment |
Lover and Beloved: Lord Henry's and Basil's competition for Dorian's attention and affection could be seen as having shades of this; both are older than him (though both are described as young men at the beginning of the book), and Dorian is described in very childlike terms despite being over twenty at the start of the book. Both Lord Henry and Basil seek to guide Dorian into maturity as well as seeking his romantic favor. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_c9597a03 | type |
Self-Deprecation | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_c9597a03 | comment |
Self-Deprecation: Dorian's apologizing letter to Sybil. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_cc39902e | type |
Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_cc39902e | comment |
Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Dorian starts the novel with a beautifully innocent appearance that matches his naive personality, and thanks to his Soul Jar painting, maintains that look even as he embraces a life of depravity and continually betrays those who love him. Thanks to an in-universe belief that Beauty Equals Goodness, other characters tend to disbelieve all of the terrible (and true) rumors they hear about him. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_cdad4b25 | type |
Toxic Friend Influence | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_cdad4b25 | comment |
Toxic Friend Influence: Lord Henry to the core, and he's got a long track record of doing this to new acquaintances. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_d39e327f | type |
What the Hell, Hero? | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_d39e327f | comment |
What the Hell, Hero?: Basil calls Dorian out for going to the opera less than a day after he got the news of Sybil Vane's death. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_d7ecbd57 | type |
You're Insane! | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_d7ecbd57 | comment |
You're Insane!: Alan Campbell to Dorian after he killed Basil and is asking him to help dispose of the body. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_d80fb43b | type |
Murder Simulators | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_d80fb43b | comment |
Murder Simulators: Subverted in a print example, in that Dorian blames the Author Avatar Lord Henry for corrupting him with his cynical outlook as well as the "Yellow Book" (Joris-Karl Huysmans' Against the Grain) he is always reading, but it is ultimately revealed that Lord Henry leads a fairly normal life and the idea of blaming a book comes across as similarly misguided. Wilde did however add this passage to defend his own book from accusations of being poisonous. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_d86fcde6 | type |
Kick the Morality Pet | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_d86fcde6 | comment |
Kick the Morality Pet: Dorian tells Sybil Vane that he no longer loves her just as she's fallen truly in love with him, driving her to suicide. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_d8e1b5a3 | type |
Soul Jar | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_d8e1b5a3 | comment |
Soul Jar: The portrait for Dorian — as long as it's safely intact, he doesn't age and remains immune to the harmful effects of drug use, STIs, etc. When it's destroyed, the subject dies. | |
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Innocent Blue Eyes | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_d935ee2f | comment |
Innocent Blue Eyes: One of the reasons people have trouble believing Dorian can be evil. They'd better believe it. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_da360137 | type |
Prone to Tears | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_da360137 | comment |
Prone to Tears: Basil is not hard to make physically ill from pain, embarrassment or passion. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_dbd2c15e | type |
Everyone Can See It | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_dbd2c15e | comment |
Likewise, Basil is clearly enamored with Dorian, but Dorian thinks they're just friends. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_df04089a | type |
Lineage Comes from the Father | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_df04089a | comment |
Lineage Comes from the Father: The reason why Dorian despite being a wealthy gentleman and having a lord for a grandfather has no title; his aristocratic mother married a common soldier, and since women couldn't inherit titles, Dorian is just Mr Gray, a mere gentleman; luckily his mother was also independently wealthy. | |
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Start of Darkness | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_e0040f41 | comment |
Start of Darkness: Dorian being influenced by Henry/becoming vain by Basil's courting. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_e3b0cd87 | type |
Morality Pet | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_e3b0cd87 | comment |
Morality Pet: Sybil Vane, before Dorian drives her to suicide. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_e543a655 | type |
Light Is Not Good | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_e543a655 | comment |
Light Is Not Good: Dorian is angelic in appearance, but not so in personality. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_e98babd8 | type |
Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful! | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_e98babd8 | comment |
Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful!: Thanks to the picture, which wears the marks of Dorian's depravity. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_eae41a | type |
The Vamp | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_eae41a | comment |
The Vamp: Dorian is a male example. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_ec40626 | type |
Love Martyr | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_ec40626 | comment |
Love Martyr: Sybil, Basil, who make the mistake of loving Dorian as he turns into a monster. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_f26d5e66 | type |
Brainless Beauty | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_f26d5e66 | comment |
Brainless Beauty: Dorian starts like this. Henry insists in the first chapter that intelligence mars beauty, and Dorian's pretty face indicates that he is a "brainless beautiful creature who should be always here in winter when we have no flowers to look at." | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_f9671119 | type |
Death Equals Redemption | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_f9671119 | comment |
Death Equals Redemption: When Dorian died, the painting representing his soul reverted to its original form, although that may have been because the signs of sin and age came out of the picture and went into Dorian himself. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_fb6b207f | type |
You Killed My Father | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_fb6b207f | comment |
You Killed My Father: Although he doesn't say them in the same order as the meme, "My name is James Vane," "You killed my sister," and "Prepare to Die" all make an appearance when James Vane corners and almost shoots Dorian outside the opium den. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_ff7e9adf | type |
Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold | |
The Picture of Dorian Gray / int_ff7e9adf | comment |
Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Played straight with Dorian to begin with, then gradually subverted. | |
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