(A reference to Wilde's letter to admirers: "Basil is my image, Dorian is my desired image, and Lord Henry is my image in the eyes of the world.")
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Tous les hommes sont mortels,mais ce Narcisse n'est pas.
Roxanne 2022-04-20 09:02:00
To paraphrase F, regardless of the ambiguous feelings between the three men, Basil represents the superego, Henry is the ego, and Dorian represents the id. Wilde said that Henry revealed the idea that the beauty of appearance can only exist in tragedy; Basil painted this beauty of appearance detachedly, and made his own death the absolute of the United States; and Dorian practiced this idea of beauty: take The exchange of the soul and the portrait allows the portrait to represent the decadent and ugly self who has suffered in reality, thus retaining this youthful beauty forever in his own body.
(A reference to Wilde's letter to admirers: "Basil is my image, Dorian is my desired image, and Lord Henry is my image in the eyes of the world.")
(A reference to Wilde's letter to admirers: "Basil is my image, Dorian is my desired image, and Lord Henry is my image in the eyes of the world.")
Extended Reading
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Lucius: I have the key to your heart.
Dorian Gray: [aggressively] Don't touch that ever!
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Basil Hallward: You shouldn't believe every word Harry says. He doesn't.