Marxist Reading of the Picture of Dorian Gray

Dorian Gray's portrait, before and after

"How sad it is! I shall grow one-time, and horrible, and dreadful. But this moving picture will remain always young. Information technology will never be older than this particular mean solar day of June.... If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to exist always young, and the motion-picture show that was to abound old! For that—for that—I would give everything! Aye, there is nothing in the whole globe I would not requite! I would give my soul for that!"

— Dorian Gray, looking at his portrait

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) was Oscar Wilde'south only novel, naturally rife with witty banter and homo-eroticism. Blond, beautiful Dorian is The Muse for the talented creative person Basil Hallward. Dorian, gifted with incredible beauty, is a thoughtless and happy beau until the solar day that he comes to Hallward's house to see the unveiling of the artist'south latest masterpiece — the eponymous portrait. There, he meets Lord Henry, who with a few casual words, instills the fright of aging and decrepitude into Dorian's young, impressionable middle. Dorian is profoundly troubled, and when Basil brings the portrait out and unveils it, its dazzler hurts Dorian so much that he exclaims he would sell his soul for his painting to age in his place.

From that mean solar day on, Lord Henry, rather than the adoring Basil Hallward, becomes the driving forcefulness in Dorian's life, leading him down a path of sensuality and pleasure. Dorian begins to find, after he cruelly rejects the young actress who has fallen in love with him, that his portrait changes — a dark smirk comes over the one time innocent smile, just to brainstorm. Years pass. The portrait grows older. Dorian does non.

This story was used equally evidence against Wilde and resulted in him existence prosecuted for homosexuality and sentenced to 2 years hard labor.

Wilde's novel has been adapted for motion-picture show, television, and stage at least two dozen times. One of the most famous adaptations is a 1945 film directed by Albert Lewin that starred George Sanders as Lord Henry, Hurd Hatfield as Dorian, Donna Reed every bit Basil's niece Gladys (a wholly different graphic symbol in the film), and twenty-year-old Angela Lansbury as Sibyl Vane. The 2009 film Dorian Gray starred Ben Barnes in the championship role and Colin Firth as Lord Henry. Tropes for these films should go on their own pages.

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Tropes in the novel include:

• All Love Is Unrequited:
  • Dorian finds Henry fascinating.
  • Likewise, Basil is clearly enamored with Dorian, but Dorian thinks they're just friends.
  • Women fall for Dorian constantly, he has fun with them for a time and then leaves them ruined (to be precise, he elopes with them and so abandons them, which in Victorian England was a social death sentence for women).
• Analogy Backfire: Basil'due south early comparison of Dorian to Narcissus, as he realizes much later. Narcissus isn't famous for his beauty - he'due south famous for his vanity.
• Anguished Announcement of Honey: From Basil to Dorian. Dorian is surprised— and then ignores information technology every bit he doesn't want Basil to know nearly the painting.
• Aristocrats Are Evil:
  • Henry has a corrupting philosophy, though he never actually acts on it himself. Dorian becomes corrupted by his condition, and his wealth and condition give him virtually free reign to indulge all of his vices.
  • A straighter example would be Dorian'south grandfather Lord Kelso who hired an adventurer to impale his commoner son-in-law.
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In Sibyl'due south plans for James's future (Chapter V).

  He was not to go to the gilt-fields at all. They were horrid places, where men got intoxicated, and shot each other in bar-rooms, and used bad linguistic communication.

• Author Avatar: Three of them. Wilde described the chief characters by saying, "Basil Hallward is what I call back I am; Lord Henry what the world thinks me; Dorian what I would similar to be in other ages, maybe."
• Dazzler Equals Goodness: Deconstructed. Dorian looks so beautiful and innocent that no one believes all the horrible things he's said to do. However, Dorian really would look ugly due to his advancing age and the effects of his vices on his trunk if non for the pic. This trope was ordinarily believed during the Victorian era.
• Blackmail: Dorian blackmails Alan Campbell to become rid of Basil's corpse. He does then, crosses the Despair Event Horizon, and kills himself.
• Blank Slate: Dorian starts out the book evidently without whatever convictions or personal beliefs, leading him to exist shaped very powerfully from a few coincidental words from Lord Henry.
• Blessed with Suck: It'due south indicated that although the picture hides the effects on Dorian's appearance from opium addiction and probably several STDs, he nevertheless feels the pain associated with them.
• Closet Primal: From Basil'southward confusion nigh his feelings for Dorian, it didn't seem similar he had loved men earlier.
• The Conscience: Basil for Dorian, beingness a good man of sufficient social standing to influence Dorian; the portrait equally an inanimate version, as it rubs Dorian's face in his ever-worsening morality.
• Decadent the Cutie: Dorian Gray starts out as an innocent if not outstandingly virtuous Manchild. And so Basil introduces him to Lord Henry, a hedonist who tells Dorian that only youth and dazzler matter in life. The impressionable Dorian actually takes this to centre and impulsively makes the Deal with the Devil that starts off the plot of the volume. Unfortunately, Lord Henry sticks around and continues to malignly influence Dorian, the upshot amplified by Dorian becoming The Soulless every bit a result of said deal. Unsurprisingly, it gets worse as the plot goes on.
• "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot:
  • Basil realizes that Lord Henry could have a strong influence on Dorian and begs him not to corrupt him, but Henry goes right ahead and does information technology almost immediately just because he can. Basil recognizes his error and regrets it.
  • The forenoon after Dorian snubbed Sybil, he realizes that he'd probably made a fault, and decides to brand up with her. Unfortunately, Dorian finds out that Sybil committed suicide during the night, which is when he plunges headlong into hedonism.
• Covers Ever Prevarication: Look on Amazon.com. Ninety percentage of the covers of this book give Dorian pilus that is black equally night, while he is explicitly described in the book, several times, equally existence blond.
• Bargain with the Devil: More or less how the painting becomes Dorian's Soul Jar. Unusually for this trope, it seems to have been done totally by accident; Dorian just makes a general oath about how he'd give his soul to never age like his portrait would, and the Devil was apparently listening.
• Expiry Equals Redemption: When Dorian died, the painting representing his soul reverted to its original form, although that may have been because the signs of sin and age came out of the picture and went into Dorian himself.
• Deathless and Debauched: Information technology'southward left ambiguous as to whether or not Grayness is truly immortal or if his enchanted portrait simply prevents him from showing whatsoever outward sign of sometime age (though many adaptations pick the former). However, he shows a consequent want for vice, taking on many lovers, wearing sumptuous clothes and jewellery, fifty-fifty developing a hunger for opium towards the end.
• Dogged Nice Guy: Basil. Good person, prissy friend, but Dorian seems only bored past his advice and entirely oblivious to any romantic interest.
• Double Standard: Dorian leaves a string of socially ruined women (and men) behind him, but is still accustomed in society since information technology wasn't him who was disgraced.
• Dramatic Irony: At to the lowest degree twice; the always innocent Basil cannot see, or refuses to acknowledge, that the boy he barbarous in love with is slipping further and further into abuse. This proves to be fatal. And so, later Basil's murder, Lord Henry tells Dorian that he wishes he knew somebody who had committed a real murder. Dramatic Irony indeed.
• Driven to Suicide: Dorian manages to do this to Sybil Vane, Alan Campbell, a "wretched boy in the Guards", and ultimately himself.
• Ethical Hedonist: Downplayed. Information technology turns out that while he talks a great deal about losing oneself in idle pleasures, Lord Henry doesn't take the eye to actually act like the consummate Straw Nihilist he talks like. In fact, he's actually rather stodgy and moral by nature (which is, of class, why he'southward so naive about the issue he has on Dorian— he really doesn't get the depths that people can sink to, allow alone his student).
• Everyone Has Standards: Dorian's grandfather, Lord Kelso, hired an adventurer to claiming his commoner son-in-law to a duel and then he could be killed. While the gentry couldn't sympathise why Dorian'southward mother chose somebody beneath her station, fifty-fifty they were appalled by Kelso'southward cruelty. According to Harry's uncle, "He ate his chop alone in the social club for some time".
• Evil Makes Yous Ugly: A major theme in the series, in accordance with Victorian lodge believing this trope. Evil would brand Dorian ugly if non for the movie taking the ugliness upon itself; the sight of its gradual transformation is a major factor in Dorian realizing just how far he's fallen.
• Fainting: Dorian at a dinner party he is hosting after he looks out of the window and sees James Vane lurking outside, who has already threatened to impale him.
• Fatal Flaw: Dorian's narcissism, Basil's worship of Dorian, Henry'southward detachment from the earth... the listing goes on and on. This is Gothic Horror after all.
• Fictional Painting: The titular portrait is probably one of the most famous examples, and is an instance of some other painting/portrait tropes as well:
  • Creepy Changing Painting: It has the unique property of its subject area becoming gradually more distorted and grotesque as time goes on, mirroring the existent Dorian's own moral decay and displaying the physical disuse he would have suffered without it.
  • Phantom Zone Picture: The painting is a Soul Jar variant.
• Foreshadowing: Afterwards Dorian'south Deal with the Devil, Basil decides to destroy the painting with a knife. As it turns out, this foreshadows both his decease and Dorian's.
• Freudian Excuse: Dorian had a actually horrible childhood; his aristocratic mother married a soldier below her social station. Her father hired an adventurer to impale her husband under the pretext of a duel. She so died of a broken centre and Dorian was left with nether the care of his cruel and uncaring grandfather.
• Grande Matriarch: Every woman in the book besides Sybil, her female parent, and Hetty fall into this category.
• Greedy Jew: Isaacs, the theater owner who puts on Sybil Vane's productions, is a particularly anti-Semitic example even for the Victorian era. He'southward repeatedly described as old, vile and filthy, with an enormous diamond on his shirt. Although he professes a passion for Shakespeare, his productions are of an exceedingly shabby quality and show how much Sybil is slumming. He seems to have sexual designs on Sybil as well.
• Hair of Aureate, Eye of Gold: Played straight with Dorian to begin with, then gradually subverted.
• Hated by All:
  • Dorian'southward grandfather Lord Kelso was by all accounts a nasty one-time goat; even his young man aristocrats despised him.
  • Dorian is an interesting case; his reputation is infamous, plenty of people hate him, still he's still able to move effectually in the all-time circles.
• He-Man Adult female Hater: Lord Henry regularly makes disparaging comments nearly women. Dorian is shocked by these comments at beginning but soon begins to absorb some of Henry'south beliefs. This culminates in Dorian behaving incredibly cruelly to Sybil and justifying himself that it was no big deal considering women savor feeling sorry for themselves (something Henry told him). Sybil commits suicide soon subsequently.
• Homoerotic Subtext: And so much that a scene between Dorian and Basil was used equally evidence against Wilde during his criminal trial for homosexuality.
• Ignored Epiphany: Dorian resolves to go adept in guild to make his horrible motion picture, and thus his soul, beautiful over again. However, he expects to meet immediate results in the picture before he's actually done anything to redeem himself, expecting that merely saying it to the air would earn him some redemption points. Instead, it shows the hypocrisy inherent in his quack atonement. After merely a few minutes, he rationalizes keeping his crimes a clandestine and becomes thoroughly evil once more.
• "I Know Y'all're in In that location Somewhere" Fight: Basil attempts this when he finds out what his love Dorian has go and what has happened to his painting of Dorian himself, unfortunately resulting in his death.

  Basil: Pray, Dorian, pray. What is it that 1 was taught to say in one's boyhood? "Lead usa non into temptation. Forgive us our sins. Wash away our iniquities." Permit us say that together. The prayer of your pride has been answered. The prayer of your repentance will be answered also. I worshiped you lot too much. I am punished for it. You worshiped yourself too much. We are both punished.
  Dorian: It is too late, Basil.
  Basil: It is never too late, Dorian. Let us kneel down and attempt if we tin not remember a prayer. Isn't there a poetry somewhere, "Though your sins exist as scarlet, even so I will make them as white equally snow"?
  Dorian: Those words hateful nothing to me now.
  Basil: Hush! Don't say that. Y'all have done enough evil in your life. My God! Don't you see that accursed thing leering at us?
  (Dorian picks up a pocketknife and stabs Basil)

• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Henry corrupts every acquaintance of his, except Basil, the most moral character in the novel. Basil himself is aware of Henry'southward unfortunate habit of doing this, and too makes unsuccessful attempts to intervene when he sees signs that Dorian has been corrupted.
• The Ingenue: The beautiful and innocent young Sybil Vane.
• It Amused Me:
  • Lord Henry's reason for attempting to influence everyone he comes into contact with with his hedonistic views. May accept been For the Evulz depending upon your interpretation of Lord Henry's character and the degree of his complicity in Dorian'southward descent into debauchery.
  • Dorian was also majorly guilty of this later on embracing Lord Henry'south hedonistic ethics when he starts corrupting people out of his ain accordance. Needless to say, Dorian's actions were more obviously for the evulz than his mentor'south.
• It's All Nigh Me: Basil's nicknaming Dorian "Narcissus" in Chapter 1 is more dead-on than he'd realized; Dorian considers wasting three hours of his valuable time plenty of an injury to him that he cancels his upcoming engagement with Sybil.

  (afterward he has broken off his engagement with Sybil Vane) "Cruelty! Had he been cruel? It was the girl's fault, not his... And, yet, a feeling of infinite regret came over him, every bit he thought of her lying at his feet sobbing like a little child... But he had suffered also. During the 3 terrible hours that the play had lasted, he had lived centuries of pain, aeon upon aeon of torture. His life was well worth hers."

• Immortality Promiscuity: The ever-youthful Dorian is said to have "ruined" many women, and is heavily implied to have had male person lovers too.
• Innocent Blue Optics: Ane of the reasons people have trouble assertive Dorian tin be evil. They'd better believe information technology.
• I Want My Dear to Exist Happy: Basil afterwards Dorian Greyness gets engaged to Sybil.
• Karma Houdini: Lord Henry. Granted, he'southward grumpy near getting quondam, and his married woman has left him, but zilch of any smashing consequence happens to him. Some have argued that Lord Henry doesn't merit any special punishment because he'due south simply amoral — he talks a big game, but he hasn't the backbone (as Dorian has) to cross the line into outright evil.
• Karmic Death: Dorian, who dies after damaging the source of his vanity after killing his simply friend, with Dorian's corpse condign immediately hideous and the painting reverting back to its pristine land.
• Kick the Morality Pet: Dorian tells Sybil Vane that he no longer loves her just as she's fallen truly in love with him, driving her to suicide.
• Lack of Empathy: Dorian, made plainly when he spurns Sybil so a major office of his character. But he still feels sad for Basil after his confession, making Basil an absolute woobie.
• The Last of These Is Non Similar the Others: Lord Henry uses this.

  Lord Henry: 1820, when people wore loftier stocks, believed in everything, and knew admittedly nada.

• Lemony Narrator: As would be expected from a novel by famous wit Oscar Wilde, the narration is full of Funny Moments and contemptuous observations on Victorian order.
• Calorie-free Is Not Good: Dorian is celestial in appearance, but not and then in personality.
• Lineage Comes from the Father: The reason why Dorian despite being a wealthy admirer and having a lord for a grandfather has no title; his aloof mother married a mutual soldier, and since women couldn't inherit titles, Dorian is but Mr Greyness, a mere gentleman; luckily his mother was also independently wealthy.
• Loners Are Freaks: Basil likes shutting himself up for months, which is treated as a striking eccentricity.
• Looks Worth Killing For: Dorian gives his soul up in exchange for eternal youth and beauty. Alas, his portrait changes over time to show him his inner decay.
• Love at Offset Sight: Basil meets Dorian at a party, and essentially falls in love with him upon their first conversation.
• Love Martyr: Sybil, Basil, who make the mistake of loving Dorian equally he turns into a monster.
• Lover and Beloved: Lord Henry'southward and Basil's competition for Dorian'southward attention and affection could be seen as having shades of this; both are older than him (though both are described every bit young men at the beginning of the book), and Dorian is described in very artless terms despite being over xx at the start of the volume. Both Lord Henry and Basil seek to guide Dorian into maturity as well equally seeking his romantic favor.
• Loving a Shadow: Dorian doesn't dearest Sybil just the characters she plays.
• Meaningful Name: Dorian (the name of a tribe allowing homosexuality), Harry ('abuse, destroy'), Saint Basil, the Confessor.
• Milholland Human relationship Moment: Basil is virtually insulted when his confession gets more thwarting than condemnation from Dorian.
• The Mirror Shows Your True Cocky: Dorian underestimates his ii-D representation, assuming that if he performs good deeds, the portrait volition improve. It really worsens, proving that Dorian hasn't actually changed (which isn't helped by him not doing anything to redeem himself), and this sudden philanthropy is driven past boredom and vanity.
• Morality Pet: Sybil Vane, before Dorian drives her to suicide.

  Dorian: Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.

• Murder Simulators: Subverted in a print example, in that Dorian blames the Author Avatar Lord Henry for corrupting him with his contemptuous outlook as well as the "Yellow Book" (Joris-Karl Huysmans' Against the Grain) he is always reading, simply it is ultimately revealed that Lord Henry leads a adequately normal life and the idea of blaming a book comes beyond as similarly misguided. Wilde did nevertheless add this passage to defend his own book from accusations of existence poisonous.
• Noodle Incident: Dorian writes something on a card and shows information technology to Alan Campbell to bribery him. We never learn what Dorian wrote. Given Alan's horrified reaction about existence ruined, every bit well every bit other immature men from Dorian's sordid by being described equally having been ruined and shunned past society, one can approximate that it was related to homosexuality, which in Victorian lodge was a crime, and would ruin one's life if constitute out (as indeed Wilde himself was besides involved in but such a 'scandal').
• Offstage Villainy: Even though the story is centered around corruption and immoderacy, virtually of Dorian'southward felonies are only touched upon in the actual prose.
• Older Than They Look: Dorian keeps his youthful looks for most ii decades (many adaptations make it seem longer). Many readers presume that Dorian receives immortality, but this is never stated. He simply doesn't prove the effects of age, and it's not really impossible to look young into your belatedly thirties; it's more than that a hedonistic life of drugs, booze, and casual sex activity is really not conducive to that. We can't be certain if Dorian is immune to death from old age or non as he doesn't live long enough to notice out.
• Our Liches Are Different: Dorian could exist considered a sort of lich, under a loose definition of the term, though it's unknown if he actually got immortality or non.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Lord Henry is the tempter of Dorian into uncaring hedonism and a cruel misogynist who loudly talks near how evil and stupid women are on many occasions.
• The Power of Love: "Basil would take helped him to resist Lord Henry's influence, and the still more poisonous influences that came from his ain temperament."
• Pretty Boy: Dorian Gray. Lampshaded to hell and back. He'due south described every bit an intoxicatingly, androgynously beautiful and sweet blond young human being.
• Prince Mannerly: Trope Namer in that this is the earliest known apply of this exact term, but a deconstruction of the trope itself. While characters of this type existed before the novel, Dorian is the first referred to as "Prince Charming" verbatim, making this a Dead Unicorn Trope or Unbuilt Trope.
• Prone to Tears: Basil is non hard to make physically ill from hurting, embarrassment or passion.
• Properly Paranoid: Dorian once James Vane returns.
• Purple Prose: The whole volume, arguably, just specially Chapter 11. It tin can be summarized every bit, "He read books, did things, and had lots of pretty stuff." This may have been to show the reader the tediousness of Dorian's hedonism and his consequently jaded attitude. It also serves to compare Dorian's appearance to the items he speaks of. The jewels, etc., are items which one acquires every bit beauty that can terminal forever. (It'southward likewise speculated that when Wilde's publisher told him that the volume was likewise curt, he padded it with those descriptions.)
• Pygmalion Plot: Henry'due south feelings for Dorian.
• Rage Against the Reflection: When Dorian becomes aroused looking at his unmarred face he smashes the mirror beneath his heel. He later stabs his portrait, a fatal mistake.
• Rapid Aging: When Dorian can't accept the portrait's honesty anymore, he stabs it, which causes him to instantaneously have all the age and wicked infirmities to which he had been previously spared. However, he's only around forty years onetime by this time. It'south the knife that kills him. Stabbing your Soul Jar is a bad idea.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful!: Thanks to the pic, which wears the marks of Dorian'due south depravity.
• Self-Deprecation: Dorian'southward apologizing alphabetic character to Sybil.
• Serious Business: Dorian cruelly spurns Sybil after she gives a poor theatrical performance. He brutal in honey with her acting, non her.
• Shrine to Self: When Dorian isn't out getting debauched, he spends his fourth dimension contemplating his portrait.
• Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Pessimism: Each philosophy impersonated by the mentor characters.
• The Sociopath: Dorian Gray, after he sells his soul for eternal youth and rationalizes that hedonism is the but worthy use of his time.
• Showtime of Darkness: Dorian beingness influenced by Henry/becoming vain by Basil's courting.
• Tears of Joy: Dorian afterward he discovers that James Vane is expressionless.
• This Was His Truthful Form: At the terminate, when Dorian stabs the picture, thus killing himself, the portrait becomes pretty again, simply his body becomes mutated, reflecting his ain inner corruption and age. His servants tin can't fifty-fifty tell it's his corpse until they recognize the rings on his fingers.
• Fourth dimension Skip: There'south i spanning virtually 18 years, occurring later Dorian fully embraces the degenerate lifestyle he becomes fond to.
• Toxic Friend Influence: Lord Henry to the core, and he'southward got a long track record of doing this to new acquaintances.
• Vain Sorceress: Dorian is the most famous male person one. He desires to be youthful, handsome, rich and beloved forever and (accidentally) uses magic in order to achieve this goal.
• The Vamp: Dorian is a male example.
• Villain Protagonist: Dorian doesn't get-go every bit one, but...
• Wants a Prize for Basic Decency: Near the stop Dorian expects his motion-picture show to change back because he was considerate enough to break up with the terminal girl that fell for him instead of eloping with her. Information technology doesn't change the portrait at all, and Lord Henry even laughs at the idea that this did the girl any favours: her prospects might not accept been ruined, but she still loved Dorian and will suffer for the abandonment.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Basil calls Dorian out for going to the opera less than a 24-hour interval after he got the news of Sybil Vane'southward death.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Basil, who is naive enough to trust even Henry.
• You Killed My Father: Although he doesn't say them in the same society equally the meme, "My proper name is James Vane," "Yous killed my sister," and "Ready to Die" all brand an advent when James Vane corners and almost shoots Dorian outside the opium den.
• You're Insane!: Alan Campbell to Dorian after he killed Basil and is request him to assistance dispose of the body.

  Alan Campbell: You are mad, Dorian.

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Tropes in adaptations include:

• Adaptational Badass: In some adaptations, Dorian's unchanging looks come up with a Healing Factor that makes him virtually immune to concrete harm.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: In the original novel, Dorian was blond. In most modern adaptations, he's portrayed with black pilus.
• Gender Flip: A 1983 TV movie called The Sins of Dorian Gray made the lead a woman (and yet, notwithstanding not blonde).
  • The teen horror novel Mirror, Mirror does the same thing.
• Immortality Inducer: Some adaptations make Dorian immortal, possibly due to the common interpretation that Dorian is immortal in the original story. While Dorian does not show signs of aging, the text never overtly states that he's actually immortal, and notes that despite his youthful advent, he nevertheless feels the ravages of historic period, too equally the harm his lifestyle incurs.
• Kick the Son of a Bitch: Dorian himself suffers this in the Deadpool Killustrated comic book when he'southward brutally murdered by Deadpool. Even though the Deadpool in that story was a murderous psychopath, it's pretty difficult to feel much sympathy for Dorian, considering all the horrible things he'due south washed.
• The Mirror Shows Your Truthful Self: The teen horror novel Mirror, Mirror replaces the portrait with a mirror in which the protagonist'southward reflection grows uglier in line with her personality.
• Setting Update:
  • The 1970 movie version updates the setting to then-contemporary times. The more open attitudes well-nigh homosexuality and premarital sex shift the plot around a little, only it still works.
  • Will Self's screenplay-turned-novel Dorian updates the setting to early 80s London art scene and introduces a Tragic AIDS Story subplot too as drawing parallels between Dorian and Princess Diana.
  • The teen horror novel Mirror, Mirror sets information technology in a modern day (1992) high school.
  • Rick Reed's A Face up Without A Eye updates the setting to early 2000s America (the picture is now a hologram), changes the characters' names (and makes Henry "Henrietta", a drag performer), and is more explicit about the gay sex and drug usage
  • A semi-staged version was released online in March 2021, prepare in the present solar day. In this version, Dorian's online presence remains young and beautiful while his face ages and corrupts. It'southward set during the Covid pandemic, and he stars wearing a mask in public for health reasons, but is before long wearing one to hide his face.
• Shout-Out: In the 2008 Marvel Comics adaptation by Roy Thomas, when Basil Hallward is talking about Dorian'due south ruined acquaintances, he mentions "Lord Kent's only son" and a console depicting Lord Kent ◊ gives him small round wire-framed spectacles and night hair with a distinctive spit curl.
• Tall, Nighttime, and Handsome: Dorian often becomes this in adaptations instead of blond-haired as he was in the novel, partly because of changing beauty standards.

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