Theme Of Mortality In Dorian Gray's 'The Demon Lover'

Humans have a specific, internal tendency to desire what they cannot have and attempt to do the inevitable which may lead to a drastic turn of events in their life. The only two choices of mortality lead people to make decisions through life with results of accepting or denying death. A mortal life represents a gift to all humans that they either abuse or use wisely. Through a psychological study, the surroundings of a person by animate or inanimate objects--the nature vs. nurture effect--impacts the path a person will venture through. Whether it comes from “attitudes rubbing off”, or objects triggering emotions, a person takes upon the influence of who he/she want to become with the knowledge of mortality in the back of the mind. Because life for all people result in the acceptance or
Drover in “The Demon Lover” arguably deals with dramatic psychological distress as she visits her abandoned home 25 years later. All three characters venture through Joseph Campbell’s monomyth in a similar yet straying manner from the original which consists of a typical hero outcome. Dorian Gray, Mrs. Drover, and the persona of “Ode on a Grecian Urn” take a downfall, choosing the notorious “wasteland” and living in misery or envy yet result in the same manner as another who chooses the proverbial “Holy Grail” in the sense at gaining experiences and knowledge of the other world, insight on morality, and genuine acceptance through miniscule grief. Through awe-inspiring works such as Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, and Elizabeth Bowen’s “The Demon Lover”, all authors convey the hidden, utterly honest truth of accepting or denying death as the way of a mortal life through each hero/heroine’s journey based upon the choices each major character makes due to desires and to negligence of the gift of living in order to express the meaning of experiencing a well-lived, non-materialistic, fearless