Dorian Gray Manipulation
The Manipulation of Art In Oscar Wilde’s, The Picture of Dorian Gray and director Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things there was a consistent theme of change. The change developed through manipulation and hypocrisy. In the film The Shape of Things, a young artist unethically changes a museum worker in search of the ideal work of art. Whereas in the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, a well-known man finds himself changing based on the sins in his own portrait. In The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Shape of Things people who consider themselves artists make unethical decisions in order to manipulate or sculpt others as a form of art. I NEED A TOPIC SENTENCE .The Picture of Dorian Gray is takes place in the height of the artistic movement within
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NEED TO BE LESS VAGUE.The first connection between the two stories is Lord Henry and Dorian's relationship, alongside Evelyn and Adam's relationship. In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Lord Henry influences Dorian quite a bit. “Some day, when you are old and wrinkled and ugly when thought has seared your forehead with its lines, and passion branded your lips with its hideous fires, you will feel it, you will feel it terrible.” (pg 22) For instance he gives Dorain a book which then overrules Dorian's life for eighteen years. Dorian lives by that book and hides persistently behind his good looks.I DONT THINK THESES CONNECT Lord Henry almost swoons over Dorian's good looks. “Youth and beauty are the finest of all treasures, and they should be cherished and guarded because they so quickly fade.”(pg 20) In The Shape of Things, Evelyn influences Adam. She gets him to change things about himself without him even knowing. Some would say she controlled him in a passive, but influential way. Both Evelyn and Lord Henry has hidden ulterior motives. Another connection is that in both The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Shape of Things, the canvas changed. Dorian’s picture started to look ugly and his picture showed his sins. Adam changed his weight, hair, outfit and in general he changed himself. Even though one is a physical canvas and one was a human canvas, both Dorain and Adam were
NEED TO BE LESS VAGUE.The first connection between the two stories is Lord Henry and Dorian's relationship, alongside Evelyn and Adam's relationship. In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Lord Henry influences Dorian quite a bit. “Some day, when you are old and wrinkled and ugly when thought has seared your forehead with its lines, and passion branded your lips with its hideous fires, you will feel it, you will feel it terrible.” (pg 22) For instance he gives Dorain a book which then overrules Dorian's life for eighteen years. Dorian lives by that book and hides persistently behind his good looks.I DONT THINK THESES CONNECT Lord Henry almost swoons over Dorian's good looks. “Youth and beauty are the finest of all treasures, and they should be cherished and guarded because they so quickly fade.”(pg 20) In The Shape of Things, Evelyn influences Adam. She gets him to change things about himself without him even knowing. Some would say she controlled him in a passive, but influential way. Both Evelyn and Lord Henry has hidden ulterior motives. Another connection is that in both The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Shape of Things, the canvas changed. Dorian’s picture started to look ugly and his picture showed his sins. Adam changed his weight, hair, outfit and in general he changed himself. Even though one is a physical canvas and one was a human canvas, both Dorain and Adam were