Oscar Wilde wrote a haunting...
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Oscar Wilde wrote a haunting book titled The Picture of Dorian Gray. Dorian, like his other friends, accumulated wealth and position. He did it with no regard for his fellow human beings. Gradually his friends began to age, to run into the difficulties which life brings to everyone.
Strangely, Dorian did not grow old. He kept his youthful appearance, remaining as young and powerful as always. The evil deeds he had committed were in no way reflected in his youthful face or body. His unlimited excesses seemed to make no impact on him. Suspicions became aroused. How did Donan manage to live life as he wished while everyone else suffered and died?
The gossiping began. It was rumored that Dorian kept a portrait of himself hidden. What had he seen in it? Only when the portrait was destroyed did they come upon Dorian, his dying finally revealing in his face all the horrors of a life lived solely at the expense of others. What they saw were signs of the same self-indictment which Dorian had seen in his own portrait.
"Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you" (v. 1).
-- Hedahl
Strangely, Dorian did not grow old. He kept his youthful appearance, remaining as young and powerful as always. The evil deeds he had committed were in no way reflected in his youthful face or body. His unlimited excesses seemed to make no impact on him. Suspicions became aroused. How did Donan manage to live life as he wished while everyone else suffered and died?
The gossiping began. It was rumored that Dorian kept a portrait of himself hidden. What had he seen in it? Only when the portrait was destroyed did they come upon Dorian, his dying finally revealing in his face all the horrors of a life lived solely at the expense of others. What they saw were signs of the same self-indictment which Dorian had seen in his own portrait.
"Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you" (v. 1).
-- Hedahl
