Your so Vain, You Probably Think This Book Is About You. OR The Scumbag Thinks He's Hot.

I am writing this with a hope that everyone reading has a full understanding of the story so I don't have to explain every aspect.

              The consequences of vanity is the biggest theme in The Picture of Dorian Grey. What is the first thought that corrupts dorian? His corruption starts when he realizes he is beautiful and that beauty and pleasure is the only thing worth living for. His friend Basil would tell him all the time about his wonderful youth, but he would ignore. When he finally meets Lord Henry, and is told again about his beauty, he is corrupted. Then he sees the picture Basil paints and again realizes how beautiful he is. Then, after a few years, the scumbag Dorian becomes a horrible person (with a beautiful face) who has a horrible influence on everyone he meets. Up until the last scene, Dorian is enjoying the pleasures of life, even though they are destroying him in front of his eyes. In the end Dorian cant handle his own corruption and stabs the picture that, as you know, entraps  his soul on a canvas. Then he dies. In the end he pays for his wrongs and the wrongs came from his vanity. Therefore the biggest theme is the consequences of vanity.

"There comes a time when you into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors."
~Tennessee williams