Who Is The Immoral Character In The Picture Of Dorien Gray

While I worked at Frisch's Big Boy over the summer, I experienced a man who used his power for personal entertainment and gain. Everyday he would come in, sit on his blue desk chair, and screech at other employees for their lack of complete perfection. He excersised this immoral atroscity on a day to day basis. Much the same as this personal story of mine, which is corrupted with injustices much replicates the story in The Picture of Dorien Gray, by Oscar Wilde of characters with wealth and power destroy the community through immoral practices and the corruption of others. Powerful men and women have the greatest effect on others, and their actions can lead to endless possibilities of happiness, but they can also lead down a dark path of turmoil and hatred. Lord Henry's actions result in him being a prime example of selfishness and destruction. Lord Henry quikly becomes the unjust and immoral character in the story. Lord Henry explains to Dorien before the theater performance, "Modern morality
Dorien speaks to Sibyl saying, "You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. ... I loved you because you were marvellous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realised the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid" (Wilde 98). Dorien delivers these hurtful powerful words directly into Sibyl's heart and soul, tearing it into scattered pieces. Dorien only wants to see his personal entertainment and now that Sibyl has thrown her acting career away, Dorien looks at her as a person looks at garbage, disgusted. Because of these hurtful words, Sibyl commits suicide. All of these actions were because of one man, Lord Henry. His job is complete he has ruined two lives and now the only thing left for him to do is watch and give more putrid advice to