THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
END → QUITE CONVENTIONAL↓
THE
VILLAIN is
PUNISHED by his
CONSCIENCE
DORIAN tries to overcome the division between senses and spirit,
BODY and
SOUL↓
Theory of the
SPIRITUALIZATION of the senses
However Dorian is the victim of a new division between his
hedonistic self and
his moral self
HIS MORAL SELF incarnates itself in the picture and lives its own life
HIS CONSCIENCE suppressed for a time (almost 20 years), becomes his DOUBLE
The artist of life, the worshipper of beauty, cannot but hate the ugliness he has created
The portrait becomes the MIRROR of his REAL INNER SOUL