Read The Picture of Dorian Gray Chapter 13 through 18. Pay particular attention to color, Biblical allusion, imagery, and symbolism.Consider:
As we have discussed, Oscar Wilde wrote this novel 1890. A decade later, he was arrested and charged with "'committing acts of gross indecency with male persons.' The details of Wilde's final five years, spent in prison and in lonely exile, are tragic...Wilde's conversion took place within the last two days of his life, when desperate friends, the Catholic Robbie Ross among them, brought in a local priest to gauge Wilde's assent to the conversion and to administer Last Rites. Appropriately, Wilde's last act was an assent to a final ritual" (Cauti xxxiii).
"Like an object caught in the tension of two opposing forces, his body and mind were torn between the love of God and the enticement of the sensual" (Zacharrias 5).
"His death at forty-six was attributed to the destruction he brought upon his body through an indulgent lifestyle" (Zaccharias 6).
So...PONDER THIS:
How do we account for Wilde's work that seems to speak so strongly against immorality and the pursuit of pleasure? How does Wilde communicate his personal argument with Truth? What part does the Holy Spirit play in an artist's endeavor? What does this tell us/bring up concerning the human condition? As Christians, what is our take away?
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