Death By Beauty
Death by Beauty
As a society we must always look fabulous no matter the costs. This was the kind of place that Oscar Wilde lived in. The place were he wrote his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. This book is about a vain man that finds eternal youth, but he never changes; his age instead is transferred to a portrait of him. He is tolled over and over how wonderful he looks, but none know the ugliness of his heart. There are people like that today. The people that would sell their soul for the chance to be classified as beautiful, but why take the chance. This and many more reasons are why people should realize that vanity kills in the end.
Oscar Wilde was a protestant Anglo-Irish man that grew up in the fashionable area of Dublin, Ireland. He was educated at home until the age of nine then later on in life continued on to Oxford were he received the Oxford Newdigate Prize during 1878 for his poem “Ravenna,” he then graduated with the highest grade available, the double first. Sandra F.Siegel, states in her article Oscar Wilde: The Spectacle of Criticism, that “Wilde’s power to arouse fantasies in others – and to fulfill them – is seemingly inexhaustible.”(¶1). And people still today are moved in some form of way to his verses.
A main issue in the book is about how far the beauty of a face can take you in life. Such as, when people look at a celebrity the normal thing to see is someone that has been nipped and pulled; almost like a human turkey. A Newsweek article, “Breast implants linked again with suicide risk,” states that “A new study adds to evidence that while women with breast implants are not at greater risk of breast cancer, they do seem to have
an elevated risk of suicide.”(¶1). This shows that women are more likely to kill themselves because of a vanity surgery.
Back to Oscar his character Dorian Gray is the pivotal mystery man. He always appears as if he...
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