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3 months ago

One of my Dorian Gray hot takes is that there was absolutely nothing in Dorian and Basil's relationship that was healthy. I keep seeing posts like "Basil's love for Dorian was so pure, that's why the portrait was so pretty and the real villain of the story is Wotton because he corrupted it"

As I see it, yes, Wotton did corrupt him, but saying Basil's feelings for Dorian were pure is simply inaccurate to the story. Basil says himself he merely sees Dorian as an artistic ideal [Dorian Gray is to me simply a motive in art. I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours. That is all; ch1] and admitted he (a 10 year older man, who had power over him) tried to isolate him from other people and "keep him to himself". Furthermore, Basil also plays a big role in the way Dorian sees himself and his beauty, by painting him everyday and not maintaining any conversation with him, he's indirectly reaffirming what Wotton tells him: people only care about you because you're pretty and young. There is also this scene from the second chapter:

Dorian Gray turned and looked at him. "I believe you would, Basil. You like your art better than your friends. I am no more to you than a green bronze figure. Hardly as much, I dare say.

The painter stared in amazement. It was so unlike Dorian to speak like that. What had happened? He seemed quite angry. His face was flushed and his cheeksburning.

"Yes," he continued, "I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun. You will like them always. How long will you like me? Till I have my first wrinkle, I suppose. I know, now, that when one loses one's good looks, whatever they may be, one loses everything. Your picture has taught me that. Lord Henry Wotton is perfectly right. Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself."

Hallward turned pale and caught his hand. "Dorian! Dorian!" he cried, "don't talk like that. I have never had such a friend as you, and I shall never have suchanother. You are not jealous of material things, are you?-you who are finer than any of them!"

Dorian is even dealing with a suicidal ideation over what Wotton has told him and the way Basil sees him, he needs emotional validation, he's asking to be told there's more than him than that, and Basil's reaction is just─ no. You're prettier than any other object (indirectly comparing him to one, too).

Basil's view of Dorian influences how he sees people as much as Wotton's. For example, to Dorian Sybil was only what she pretended to be, he loved her performance, her acting, how she did exactly what the public wanted (which can apply to Dorian himself), not the real her. She was only an artistic ideal to him, she meant to him exactly what Dorian meant to Basil. He ignored her desires, pain and everything not related to what he wanted to see, since that's what he's been taught he must appreciate.

I also disagree with the interpretation of the portrait as a "pure" reflection of Basil's love (I would personally rather describe it as an obsession, though) and Dorians soul because it's not. At least not entirely. Part of the point of the book is that everyone only saw the part of Dorian they wanted: the portrait represents Basil's idolized version of him, what he wanted to see and how he refused to see Dorian as a person instead of an artistic ideal. That's why he tried to make him redeem himself, because he hated seeing his version of Dorian shatter into pieces. It was never Dorian entirely, not even after aging terribly because that's the result of Basil and Wotton's influence. The portrait was not his real soul, it was a modified version of it other people played with because nobody cared about the whole thing, and the influence was so big those parts became his whole being. It was just an idolized, molded version at first but turned into his real self with the time and the sins. Dorian's soul (the portrait) was constructed upon what others appreciated about him, so when Wotton motivated him to sin, because Dorian's potential to be terrible was what mattered to him, it became ugly and terrible. There was absolutely nothing pure about that portrait since day 1.

5 months ago

me every day without fail: I'll do [chore] when I get home

me when I get home:

Me Every Day Without Fail: I'll Do [chore] When I Get Home
3 months ago

Thinking about how it's a running joke in gothic horror lit that there are a lot of important characters named Henry, specifically Henry Clerval in Frankenstein, Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray, and obviously Henry Jekyll in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, but Dracula notably doesn't have a Henry in the cast, not even among the one-off minor characters, but then my late-night galaxy brain was like, wait, if Stoker most likely drew heavily from Henry Irving as his inspiration, then Dracula himself is arguably a stealth Henry 🧐

11 months ago
Crowley Coded

Crowley coded

3 months ago

Dr. Jekyll whenever Mr. Utterson tries to visit:

3 months ago

If I were Dr. Jekyll I simply would have gotten a free sample twice.

5 months ago

this website’s easy watch. *dangles a bunch of greek gods like keys*

9 months ago
Reblog For Sample Size And Also Tell Me Why In The Tags. I Want Violence. I Want Discourse. I Want Bloodshed
Reblog For Sample Size And Also Tell Me Why In The Tags. I Want Violence. I Want Discourse. I Want Bloodshed

Reblog for sample size and also tell me why in the tags. I want violence. I want discourse. I want bloodshed

3 months ago

Act of Gratitude

This is hella ANGST. I was actually hesitating to post this comic due to my hc about Lilia 'letting baby silver wander in the forest' (made it before last chapter of Book 7). But I think it's still on par with the story.

Act Of Gratitude
Act Of Gratitude
Act Of Gratitude
Act Of Gratitude
Act Of Gratitude
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