Morality In C.S. Lewis' "That Hideous Strength" And
The crucial theme present throughout C.S. Lewis' "That Hideous Strength" and Oscar Wilde's
"The picture of Dorian Gray" is morality, and how it can be influenced. The main characters in C.
S. Lewis' novel, Mark and Jane Studdock, go through very contradicting paths and join opposite in
objectives, organizations; at the same time they share similar feelings (solitude, confusion,
paranoia) and carry out immoral actions in the attempt to run away from the problems.
On the other hand, in Oscar Wilde's novel, the young, beautiful, inexperienced, naïve, Dorian
Gray; influenced by his new friend Lord Henry Wotton, forgets his moral values and lives in
constant pursuit of individual pleasure. The characters find themselves in different situations, but
prove the same statement that an unstable human mind can easily be influenced and forced into
wrongdoing.
The main characters in both of the novels, are fooled into the dangerous influences because of......
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