, which is arepresentation of his soul, Wilde shows Dorian laying on the ground,wrinkled and disgusting, with a knife in his heart. Wilde did this to show that whenDorian stabbed the painting, he was actually stabbing himself. Oscar Wilde first portrays Dorian Gray as a sweet, sensitive man whomeveryoneadmires. When Basil, however, began admiring Dorian, he changed. LordHenry movedinto his life, and the painting showed a form of beauty that he couldnever be able to achieve again in real life without the help of magic. With this, Dorianconceals his morbid soul with the painting and continues living as beautiful as heever was, physically, but spiritually he is rotting inside. Wilde creates ananimal out of theseemingly perfect man and has him destroy himself and his friends alongwith him. Allof this happened because of the picture of Dorian Gray....
