ore Sibyl fell in love with Dorian, she lives in a world or Art, a world of imaginations. That great pureness of Art is so powerful that she can spiritualize her audiences, and give them a soul if they lived without one, create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid and ugly. Art has the power to bring people into a place where they have not been, or a place that they don’t have the opportunity to go to in the reality. Dorian has realized, “I love acting. It is so much more real than life” (88). Real life is so limited as to in acting, a man can live any scene that he can possibly think of. Dorian’s rejection of Sibyl came upon one night that Sibyl has lost her magic. A night that her acting lost the power to attract and charm the audiences. “Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are” (64). That night, “she spoke the words as though they conveyed no meaning to her…she was absolutely self-contained. It was simply bad art. She was a complete failure” (93). Sibyl has become herself! She has gotten out of the world of imagination into the real world, into what she is, herself! Sibyl’s mind is occupied by Dorian. “You are more to me than all art can ever be” (96). Now, all the wonderful influences that Sibyl had, have been wiped out, but the influence of Dorian Gray. She tried to show Dorian of her love for him, but as the author of the book mentioned in the Preface, “No artist desires to prove anything.” Sibyl is no longer an artist. There is no more imagination for she is “a” person, an individual now, a “Sibyl” that is in love with Dorian, and Dorian only. There is no more curiosity that Dorian can have of her. “You have killed my love” (96). Dorian didn’t loved “Sibyl,” he loves Art! “How little you can know of l...
