“The Picture of Dorian Gray” is the most profound story of the last 150 years. For me, it even surpasses “Brave New World,” and “1984” - there is no greater destruction than man’s own ego. If one can imagine America as Dorian Gray and Donald Trump as the portrait it can not bear to look upon then one can understand the power and dimension of the story’s universal metaphor. That said, Oscar Wilde, a brilliant satirist and writer.
“The Picture of Dorian Gray” is the most profound story of the last 150 years. For me, it even surpasses “Brave New World,” and “1984” - there is no greater destruction than man’s own ego. If one can imagine America as Dorian Gray and Donald Trump as the portrait it can not bear to look upon then one can understand the power and dimension of the story’s universal metaphor. That said, Oscar Wilde, a brilliant satirist and writer.