The Supernatural in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Essay

If you can get past most of the superficial and closed characters in The Picture of Dorian Gray, this story does indeed have its deposit in the horror genre. While I understand the setting and the characters were a reflection of the actual class distinctions during the Victorian time period, I put up the shallowness and narcissism of Dorian Gray and his circle of acquaintances tedious. Fops came to mind much than once along with dont these people have a purpose separate than to dine out and indulge themselves? Even the women were for the most part visualised as imbeciles. It almost hurt to read the section in chapter quad where Lord Henrys wife appears for the first and only time She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She well-tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy. Her name was Victoria, and she had a perfect mania for going to church (Wilde 41). The only likeable principal(prenom inal) character is Basil Hallward who seems to have a conscience, and although it proves his undoing, he is the only oneness that tries to save Dorian.I think several elements of the supernatural came into play in the story the picture which had the capacity to change in showing Dorians sins and evildoings, the occasion of mirrors, and direct and indirect references to selling ones soul to the devil.The very fact that the painting changes, places this story in the realm of the supernatural. In The Element Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Hauntings by Theresa Chung, supernatural is defined as Any experience, occurrence, manifestation or objective lens that is beyond the laws of nature and science and whose understanding may be verbalise to lie with religion, magic or the mystical (480). Af... ...years. Lord Henry enjoyed influencing Dorian He was conscious--and the thought brought a gleam of pleasure into his brown agate eyes--that it was finished certain words of his, musical words said with musical utterance, that Dorian Grays soul had turned to this white girl and bowed in venerate before her. To a large extent the lad was his own cosmos (Wilde 51). What makes Lord Henrys influence worse is his utter lack of understanding how abusive it was, and, how little he really knew Dorian, evidenced towards the end when Dorian lots tells him he murdered Basil.Works CitedWilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Michael Patrick Gillespie, Editor. Norton Critical Edition. reinvigorated York W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2007.Cheung, Theresa. The Element Encyclopedia of Ghosts & Hauntings. Element Encyclopedia Series. Unknown Barnes & Noble, Inc., 2008.