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The picture of Dorian Gray is a morality tale since the entire story revolves around the degradation of Dorian's soul, which is reflected by his portrait. As Dorian stepped closer to immorality and corruption, the portrait changed in appearance which eventually gave form to a hideous, unrecognizable figure.

While a horror story focuses primary on scaring and unsettling the readers, The Picture of Dorian Gray is more like Oscar Wilde's insight of morality, or rather, immorality and its effect on human conscience. For Dorian, aging and immorality had absolutely no claim on his innocent and beautiful appearance; instead, they were vividly reflected through his portrait. Knowing that, Dorian at first showed no remorse or guiltiness of conscience as he sank lower in morality, this lack of guilt being apparent when he decided to attribute young actress Sybil's death - caused by his cruel words - to a personified tragedy of her own. For eighteen years Dorian lived his life in this......

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