"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde

The term 'beauty' may have very relative significance. Something can be beautiful for us, but ugly for other people. The external beauty of a person is often the first thing that we pay attention to. This is the result of the association of beauty with good and ugliness with evil. Through the outer appearance we make a general opinion about a given person. Such a way of thinking may be very misleading. In order to …showed first 75 words of 1507 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1507 total…unchanged. No one beliefs in the evil stories about him because of his outstanding outer appearance,' The Picture of Dorian Gray' is a timeless story about what is really important in life, namely our inside. Only by knowing our hidden emotions we can really judge whether the person is good or bad. Bibliography: Varty,A.(1998).A Preface to Oscar Wilde,Longman,NY Cornish,F.H.;Wilde,Oscar(1993).The Picture of Dorian Gray,Heinemann,Oxford