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1. • • The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” This exchange between Dorian and Lord Henry takes place in Chapter Nineteen, as Dorian, flayed by his conscience, pledges to live a reformed life.
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   Is the picture of Dorian Gray a moral book?

   • “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book,” wrote Oscar Wilde in the preface to the 1891 edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray . “Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” Of course, even as Wilde wrote these words, he knew that the critics did not agree with his assessment.

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   Is Dorian Gray a good book?

   • Like all good art, of which the portrait of Dorian Gray is itself a powerful symbol, Wilde’s novel holds up a mirror to its reader. It shows us ourselves and teaches us the terrible lessons that we need to learn. There are indeed such things as moral and immoral books, whether well written or badly written.

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   Is the picture of Dorian Gray a gothic horror novel?

   • The Picture of Dorian Gray has been analysed as an example of the Gothic horror novel, as a variation on the theme of the ‘double’, and as a narrative embodying some of the key aspects of late nineteenth-century aestheticism and decadence. Wilde’s novel is a fusion of these various elements, among others (of which more shortly).

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   Is Dorian Gray a Victorian moral fable?

   • And with its depictions of late Victorian sin and vice, Dorian Gray may also remind readers of another work of fiction published just four years earlier: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, which is another clear example of the late Victorian moral fable dressed up in the Gothic novel form.

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   Jan 16, 2019 · They are liars and deceivers who show us a false picture of ourselves and the world in which we live. Moral books wake us up; immoral books lull us to sleep. The Picture of Dorian Gray wakes us up, stirring us from the somnambulant path of least resistance that leads to hell.

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   Jun 20, 2018 · “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book,” wrote Oscar Wilde in the preface to the 1891 edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray. “Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

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   Far from being a book that would be denounced from the pulpits by Anglican clergymen for being ‘immoral’, The Picture of Dorian Gray could make for a pretty good moral sermon in itself, albeit one that’s more witty and entertaining than most sermons.

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   “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book,” writes Wilde, “Books are well written or badly written. That is all.” His claim is that works of art are legitimate objects of aesthetic judgement, but not of moral judgement.

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   While there is something seductive in his observation that “the world calls immoral . . . books that show the world its own shame,” Lord Henry’s words here are less convincing than other statements to the same effect that he makes earlier in the novel.

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   Mar 29, 2016 · Whether portrayed through the literal morphing within his own portrait as the book progresses, or during Basil’s intense confrontation of Dorian in Chapter 12 the reader is constantly reminded that Dorian is infected with an immoral conscious that forces him to commit evil acts.

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    Inspired by an immoral ‘yellow book’ which Lord Henry gives to him, Dorian continues to experience all manner of ‘sensations’, no matter how immoral they are. When he next takes a look at the portrait in his attic, he finds an old and evil face, disfigured by sin, staring out at him.