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rosquinn · 1 month

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my take on dorian gray. hi

#listen i. have opinions idk #the picture of dorian gray #tpodg #maybe I'll get cooked by the fandom but we ball #dorian gray #basil hallward #henry wotton #classic lit #mine #gothic lit

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potato-lord-but-not · 1 year

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Dorian Gray doodles but it’s mostly just Basil and Henry

#I wanna make more Dorian fanart tho because he is soooooooo messed up I love him #the picture of dorian gray #the picture of dorian gray fanart #dorian gray #basil hallward #henry wotton #classic literature #gothic literature #classic lit art

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corpsecomplex · 9 months

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this has been occupying my mind for weeks

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ibrithir-was-here · 3 months

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Rosemary is for Remembrance Part 5

Part 1

Part 4

Part 6

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sadpotatoreads · 1 year

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My take after reading The picture of Dorian gray and The secret history is that never associate yourself with a guy named Henry😭

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glorious-destruction · 1 year

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I think about this a normal amount

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ssoupcup · 8 months

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tw // life size portrait, vanity, questionable morals, aging, supernaturally not aging, locked rooms, murder, people named after herbs

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you guys won't believe what just happened

#the portrait of dorian gray #dorian gray #yes i know this is a twitter meme but it was funny #the picture of dorian gray #basil hallward #tw person named after herb #lord henry wotton #henry wotton #look im autistic and this book is my life force #tw henry wotton #he needs one #lord henry 'i can make him worse' wotton #basil 'i put too much of myself into it' hallward #cant tbjnk of one for dorian that isnt just himself sorry guys xoxo

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samd1o1 · 1 year

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what if we were in a gothic lit novel, and we were gay

haha jk, unless?

#I just realized these are my top 3 fave books too #Victor Frankenstein #Dorian Gray #Gabriel Utterson #Henry Clerval #Henry Wotton #Henry Jekyll #Frankenstein The Modern Promotheus #The Picture Of Dorian Gray #The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde #Frankenstein #TPODG #Jekyll And Hyde #Goth Lit #Gothic Lit #Classic Lit #Clervalstein #Idk the other ship names

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justastrugglinghotchocolate · 6 months

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So like a year ago, I made a post asking why Dorian confessed to murdering Basil in the 1891 edition of the book, but not the 1890. For the last few months, while working on tlg and the comic, I’ve on and off again worked on a small animatic for the ending of TPODG. Because of this I’ve had to reread the ending conversation with Henry again and again. And a thought occurred to me:

Is Dorian’s ‘desire to be good’ actually an attempt to stop being objectified?

Dorian’s ‘desire to be good’ is obviously horseshit, even to himself, but why does he do it? "To feel something new" is a lazy explanation especially when the book literally says that “[h]e felt a wild longing for the unstained purity of his boyhood”. He doesn’t want something new, he wants what he had before. But it’s not the innocence of his youth, nor something material he desires—it’s the way people treated him before Henry and Basil.

The thing that always stood out to me was this exchange (occuring after Dorian’s confession):

“There is someone at White’s who wants immensely to know you—young Lord Poole, Bournemouth’s eldest son. He has already copied your neckties, and has begged me to introduce him to you. He is quite delightful and rather reminds me of you.”

“I hope not,” said Dorian with a sad look in his eyes.”

While many modern adaptations either forget this line or give a charitable reading, to me it reads as though Dorian realizes he’s replaceable. Even though he has a magic portrait and eternal youth, he still is a dying relic of a changing world. He will never be anything more than the innocent, youthful doll society and Henry treated him as.

His confession, to Henry of all people, was a final plea to be seen as more than the dumb youth, as an innocent angel—he is begging Henry to look at him and see that Dorian Gray is a person. That he feels more than youth, or beauty, or idolatry. That he is capable of great violence and even greater crime, like any other man and through that can be capable of evolving with the time like any other. He doesn't want to live as a passing fancy of perverts and naive young people.

But Henry breaks all of that in one simple line:

“You and I are what we are, and will be what we will be.”

But, Lord Henry was never going to see Dorian as a real person. Because Henry himself isn’t real. ‘Lord Henry’ is a role he plays, one that consumed him far before the first chapter. In many ways, his cynical philosophy is his own defective portrait. He hides any semblance of a person in his role of ‘cynical hedonist’ and denies any change. He too is a dying relic of a changing world.

When Henry denies his attempt to change, Dorian seeks Basil’s portrait of him. I think it's quite telling that even after he murder him, Dorian seeks implicit comfort from the man who had idolized his rose-white purity. Basil was the only relationship that was closest to what he had before. But the sad truth is laid bare:

No one ever saw Dorian Gray as a real person.

He was always a role being played.

And he dies tragically discarded.

#this is only a theory and opinion piece.#it is something I've thought about for a while #I hope I get across what I'm trying to #this is def 70% analysis #30% exhausted brain #dorian gray is a tragedy first and foremost #i discovered this when I read hamlet at the same time as this book #uhhh yeah gimme your thoughts if you want #the picture of dorian gray #tpodg #dorian gray #basil hallward #henry wotton #analysis #essay #unironically essays are so fun when you enjoy the material #choco drops an essay and won't reply for seven fucking days #long post

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sallem00 · 4 months

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THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY DESIGNS AND DOODLES

#digital art #art #digital illustration #digital drawing #character design #the picture of dorian gray #dorian gray #basil hallward #sibyl vane #henry wotton #classic literature #classic lit memes

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candymoth-art · 7 days

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Designed a cover for the picture of Dorian Gray for class!

I’m going to ramble about some of the lil details I did under the cut :3

The feathers represent Dorian and Basil’s relationship with Basil’s having a broken heart at its core

The flowers represent Henry, Basil and Dorian to showcase his innocence at the beginning of the book how he’s “yet to bloom”.

I had Dorian’s hair cover his eyes because the eyes are the windows to the soul and I wanted to evoke some mystery

I know none of this symbolism is very groundbreaking but I’m very happy with it

#the picture of dorian gray #picture of dorian gray #dorian gray #basil hallward #henry wotton #tpodg #podg #classic lit #classic lit art #classic literature #goth lit #gothic lit art #fan cover

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picklepie888 · 1 year

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Basil: Ok, Dorian's here. I will allow you to talk to him, but you better not influence him with any of your weird morally grey philosophy!

Henry: Alright alright I won't. Geez.

Dorian: Pleasure to meet you Lord Wott-

Henry: Aren't you tired of being nice?

Dorian: Uh-

Henry: Don't you wanna just go apeshit?

Basil: Henry, I swear to God!!!

#dorian gray weekly #the picture of dorian gray #incorrect quotes #henry wotton #basil hallward #dorian gray #memes

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ibrithir-was-here · 3 months

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Rosemary is for Remembrance Part 2

Part 1

Part 3

#my art #Rosemary is for Remembrance #the picture of dorian gray #tpodg #basil hallward #henry wotton #lord henry wotton #dorian gray #comics #horror comics #victorian gothic #gothic fiction #gothic horror #tw blood #(gosh writing Wotton is aweful #I don’t know how Wilde could stand doing it)#oscar wilde #classic literature #classic horror

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bitter-goodbyes · 16 days

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The Picture of Dorian Gray if it was LIBERAL

Dorian GAY

HOMO Wotton

SyBI Vane

basil hallward.

ARO Campbell

THIS IS THE FUTURE LIBERALS WANT!!!!!!!

#the picture of dorian gray #Dorian gray #tpodg #gothic literature #classic literature #oscar wilde #basil hallward #henry wotton #lord henry wotton #sybil vane #Allen Campbell #this took me too long to come up with….

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glorious-destruction · 4 months

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it’s pathetic how funny I find the abbreviation for the picture of Dorian gray (tpodg). topdog. topdog by Oscar Wilde. topdog is my favorite book. my brain only interprets it as topdog

#tpodg #or should I say topdog #oscar wilde #the picture of dorian gray #dorian gray #the uncensored picture of dorian gray #basil hallward #henry wotton #literature #books #dark academia #victorian #dps #poetry #quotes

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lucieviere · 11 months

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Finished Portrait of Dorian Gray

This took a while to be finally completed, I got busy with school and felt relatively unmotivated to finish the piece.

Looking at it now, an hour after finishing, the style change between Dorian and Basil vs Sybil and Henry on the side is a bit abrupt, but I can’t be bothered to change it lol

#basil hallward #dorian gray #the picture of dorian gray #picture of dorian gray #procreate art #digital sketch #basil x dorian #henry wotton #sibyl vane #sybil vane #gothic literature #literature #fan art #fanart #the picture of dorian gray fanart #oscar wilde #digital illustration

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