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The Picture of Dorian Gray

Dorian Gray is an upper class young man of extraordinary beauty. A painter is so impressed by his looks that decided to paint a full – length portrait of him. In the face of Dorian there was something made one trust him at once. All the candour of youth was there, as well as all youth’s passionate purity.

The person that introduced Dorian to the cult of the <<beauty>> was Lord Henry. After the end of the portrait, Dorian falls deeper and deeper into corruption, and the more Dorian become evil, the worse the worse picture become ugly. Dorian for hide this fact placed the picture in a closed room and killed the painter.

One day Dorian went to see the picture and saw the evil of his heart in the portrait and cut the picture. In this moment Dorian dead and make old and the picture return such as at the beginning.

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