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 beauty in an artistic word, which made his works a unique phenomenon in literature. “Portrait of Dorian Gray” - Wilde's most famous work - immediately by going to the light (1890) gained scandalous glory, caused contradictory assessments of contemporaries and soon became the literary manifesto of European aesthetics.

from the perfect beauty of Dorian Gray, all around Crazy: the artist Basil Hallord 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 that not one of his misconduct 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.