The justification of Dorian Gray
The fatal error that Dorian does is that he doesn't follow his own motivation and he lets himself being influenced by Lord Henry and he takes Henry's theories as motto:eternal youth.
Dorian is too young and not strong enough to make his own decisions, to formulate his own motivation and Henry becomes his spiritual master. He identifies the ergon in finding pleasures, firstly in art and after that in the lifestyle on the outskirts of London.Pleasure becomes his happiness, his main purpouse in life.
He projects on his picture the wish to be young forever. But this was not his wish, was Lord Henry's wish. And this wish comes true for Dorian.
When he meets Sibyl Vane he loses his poise. After Sibyl dies the degradation of Dorian begins.He is very influenced by the roman "A Rebours" especially by the main character Des Esseintes, from which Dorian borrows some pleasures for perfumes, pearls, fine textures.
Dorian confronts himself withan motivational incoherence, which makes him lose poise. The ideal of Dorian is represented by pleasure, beauty but is lost in the outskirts of London.
He has a narcisist worldoutlook. He believes that man is an human with billions if lives, sensations and very complex.
For Dorian the portrait was to hold the burden of his sins.
Anuradha Mitra, X F1
