王尔德与唯美主义

The Picture of Dorian Gray
---By Oscar Wilde

This is one of those books I couldn’t wait to go to library and just read online. The story fascinated me, so was the moral behind the story. On the one hand,
it gave you the idea how some artist viewed their art works and how long art works could stand time, while probably nothing else could.

But on the other hand, it was more likely that the writer, Oscar Wilde, intended
to show readers what end hedonism would bring you, and in a way how hedonism and puritan contrasted each other. The story was typically Gothic –styled, telling how Dorian Gray, after going after Henry’s hedonistic theory, went down morally whereas still was able to keep his appearance unaffected, while his portrait
endured for him all the traces his crimes left behind: the handsome face in the
portrait became more wrier, uglier, and more disgusting, revealing the degeneration of the soul.

The story came to an