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