文档介绍：Human Nature, Morality, and Fate on the Picture of Dorian Gray
China Institute of Language and Literature, Class 1, 李野, 11110007
The Picture of Dorian Gray is written by English writer Oscar Wilde who was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1856. Wilde has various and rich talents of literature and he is a critic, poet, novelist and most essfully a dramatist. As the representative of Aestheticism in the 19th century, his most famous and important opinion is “Art for Art’s Sake”. As his only full-length novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray is also a work of Aestheticism, a fine tragedy about soul. Just like the author expressed through the Lord Henry’s mouth: “In the existed each piece of fine things behind a sad thing, the most humble flowers in the hardship before finally open...”
The hero Dorian Gray was a handsome, good-looking, even beautiful anomaly young boy. His friend, painting painters Howard marveled at his appearance and purity that he drew him a real big portrait. Discovering his amazing beauty and having listened to the warden Henry Lord’s boast, Dorian started to feel his beauty was so easy to fleet as well as youth faded away with pain and pity. So he wished that the image instead of him could bear the harm of time and burden of heart, letting him remain youthful beauty forever. Somehow his crazy idea realized later. One night after he rudely treated his beloved fiancee S