Picture of Dorian Gray

A beautiful young nobleman, Dorian Gray, befriends the painter Basil Hallward, who is
Absolutely captivated by Dorian' s appearance. He begins to paint a portrait of his friend, but in the course of this work, Dorian Gray succumbs to the influence of the painter' s friend, Lord Henry. He inspires Dorian with the idea that the painting remains eternally beautiful, while its model ages and decays. Dorian therefore wishes that his portrait would start to age instead of him. And so, while Dorian still retains his handsome face, his image begins to be marked by both advancing age and each of Dorian' s sins.

Although the novel is set in Victorian-era London, its criticism
But self-centeredness, complacency, and indifferent superficiality certainly affect today' s society as well.