The Pleasures of Life

I think the story of Dorian Gray is about the pleasures of art and in Dorian's case the art of his life.

Dorian lived his life believing that art only existed to be beautiful, and that life was the same way.

Life to Dorian was supposed to be lived to the most of its possibility, to enjoy everything about life

pleasurable, moral or unmoral. If what he believed were true it could be said that there is no

morality in the world, but this is not true. The attitude of Dorian could be blamed on Lord Henry as

he started him on this way of life. The theme becomes more obvious as the picture of Dorian

becomes the sum of all his sins and his ageing. This is caused by his vain attempt to keep his youth.

The painting shows him the error of his ways and in his attempt to destroy the painting he kills

himself. This is a vary strange Twilight Zone ending to a dark creepy book.