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Assuming the sociologist Comte, that "every man is born good and it is society that corrupts," have in Dorian Gray a perfect example to justify such a sociological theory. Dorian Gray is the central character of a very tragic story and fantastic. A young man about 17 years, owned a beauty narcizesca that fascinates all who know him, be they women or men, has his portrait painted by a devoted friend. On the night that the portrait is finished, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a wealthy libertine and friend of the painter Basil Hallward. Lord Henry is the bourgeois aristocrats with classic traits (cynical, biased, sarcastic, and bon vivant in battle), after a few minutes with Dorian, lets you completely disrupted, putting his head up issues never imagined by the boy, as the end of life and degradation of its most valuable assets (beauty and youth), due to the action of time on the meat. Dorian extremely upset with this, and in a moment of great despair, in a terrible outburst against his friend Basil, for having awakened in him the knowledge of the beauty that so far he did not know, pray to heaven that he will never age and all action of time on it, besides the mark of the sins committed thereafter be transferred to the painting. More calm and unaware of the request you made, close to the friendship between Dorian and Lord, and Basil gradually put aside. But the most unbelievable to come. Owned by the same passion that made him lose his head when his picture was finished, Dorian Gray has just knowing the young Sibyl Vane, a young actress for her love dedicated to the art of acting, wins the love of Dorian. The tragic end of this story of love and other events lead to a drastic change in personality, so far in training this character. And it is here that he realizes the change in his painting and fantastically, the desire made in a moment of rage took place. And begins the gradual destruction in the table, the figure representing the soul of Dorian Gray, that each day that passes is lost even in the abyss of evil. Dorian is given written hedonists, where the pursuit of pleasure should be the primary goal and all single men, where the causes, ways and forms have no importance to the goal. Dorian, then, is thrown into a dark world, where sins are forgiven only when others are even more committed. A question to Dorian at any given time the work is quite illustrative in this regard: "What is the advantage of a man who gains the whole world but loses his own soul?". And that's what we see happening with him. Good and evil are always discussed and different interpretations are always assigned to them. When Dorian does a good deed, is by actually trying to be good, or is it just the contrary, and their attitudes away from owning goodness, would only ways to further enhance its already enormous ego? As a Midas touch even more bizarre, everything he touches is degraded.
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