The Picture of Dorian Gray: Difference between revisions

[[File:dorianbeforeafter.jpg|frame|Dorian Gray's portrait<br />Before & After]]

 

 

[[Oscar Wilde]]'s only novel, naturally rife with witty banter and [[Ho Yay]]. Blond [[Pretty Boy]] Dorian is the [[The Muse|muse]] for the talented artist Basil Hallward. Dorian, gifted with incredible beauty, is a thoughtless and happy young man until the day that he comes to Hallward's house to see the unveiling of the artist's latest masterpiece -- the eponymous portrait. There, he meets Lord Henry, who with a few casual words, instils the fear of aging and decrepitude into Dorian's young, impressionable heart. Dorian is greatly troubled, and when Basil brings the portrait out and unveils it, its beauty hurts Dorian so much that [[Fairest of Them All|he exclaims he would sell his soul for his painting to age in his place]].

* [[Blessed with Suck]]: It's indicated that although the picture hides the effects on Dorian's appearance of opium addiction and probably several STDs, he still feels the pain associated with them

* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]: Lord Henry uses this.

* [[Bury Your Gays]]: {{spoiler|Poor Basil.}}

** And poor {{spoiler|Alan}}, if you take the blackmailing as {{spoiler|Dorian threatening to reveal a possible affair between the two of them}}.

* [[Homoerotic Subtext]]: So much that a scene between Dorian and Basil was used as evidence against Wilde during his criminal trial for homosexuality.

* [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]]: Basil attempts this when he finds out [[The Soulless|what his beloved Dorian has become]] [[Soul Jar|and what has happened to his painting of Dorian himself]], {{spoiler|unfortunately resulting in his death}}

'''Dorian''': ''{{spoiler|*Picks up a knife and stabs Basil*}}'' }}

* [[Immortality Inducer]]: The portrait.

** Dorian was also majorly guilty of this after embracing Lord Henry's hedonistic ideals when he starts corrupting people out of his own accord. Needless to say, Dorian's actions were more obviously for the evulz than his mentor's.

* [[It's All About Me]]: Basil's nicknaming Dorian "Narcissus" in Chapter 1 is more dead-on than he'd realized.

* [[Innocent Blue Eyes]]: One of the reasons people have trouble believing Dorian can be evil. [[Deconstructed Trope|They'd better believe it]].

* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: Basil after Dorian Gray gets engaged to Sybil.

* [[The Messiah]]: Basil

* [[Morality Pet]]: Sybil Vane, before {{spoiler|Dorian [[Driven to Suicide|drives her to suicide]].}}

* [[Murder Simulators]]: Subverted in that Dorian blames the [[Author Avatar]] Lord Henry for corrupting him with his cynical outlook as well as the "Yellow Book" he is always reading, but it is ultimately revealed that Lord Henry leads a fairly normal life and the idea of blaming a book comes across as similarly misguided.

* [[The Muse]]: Dorian for Basil, naturally.

* [[You Killed My Father]]: Although he doesn't say them in the same order as the [[Memetic Mutation|meme]], "[[My Name Is Inigo Montoya|My name is James Vane]]," "You killed my sister," and "[[Prepare to Die]]" all make an appearance when James Vane corners and almost shoots Dorian outside the opium den.

* [[You're Insane!]]: Alan Campbell to Dorian {{spoiler|after he killed Basil and is asking him to help dispose of the body.}}

 

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