The Picture of Dorian Grey. Wilde O.

Oscar Wilde is an outstanding English writer, who was called an apostle of aesthetics during his lifetime. He loved and exalted beauty - in art, in pleasures and in his youth. He, like no one, was able to embody her in an artistic word, which made his works a unique phenomenon in literature. “Portrait of Dorian Gray” - Wilde's most famous work - immediately in the publication (1890) gained scandalous glory, caused controversial assessments of contemporaries and soon became a literary manifesto of European aesthetics.

From the perfect beauty of Dorian Gray, everything around is crazy: the artist Basil Hallus drew his portrait, women hang around his neck. How can I not fall under the influence of Sir Henry Watton? This cynic and esthete become Dorian's “demon” and helps him overcome the torment of conscience, after which Dorian ceases to distinguish between good and evil. He throws him and brings his life to his death, and then his life is a series of endless villains and crimes.

Only the portrait reminds him of the fact that not a single miscalculation will remain unpunished. The face of the living Dorian is still fine-he is doomed to eternal youth. But the face in the portrait with each new villainy is becoming more and more disfigured...