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By trading his soul for his youth, Dorian rids of the good inside of himself. As the story progresses, it is clear that wickedness actually lies within him. From the moment he made that wish upon the portrait he began to crumble. Even once he reached his epiphany and saw his malicious ways through the portrait, he simply denied seeing it and continued his destructive deeds. Throughout the novel, you can tell that Dorian is very naïve and is very easily influenced. Even though it is seen that the painting drove Dorian straight to his death, everything is still all of Dorian’s wrong doings. He was always in control of his life, he just let the idea of eternal beauty get to his head. Dorian Gray tried to have his cake and eat it too, in so many words. Art can influence a person’s life in many different ways, unfortunately for Dorian it turned out to be fatal. In conlclusion, the author is very successful in bringing out that morality will triumph over evil. Dorian let the painting rule his life, and in turn ending it. Art can have a very big impact on an individual’s life, it just depends on what kind of perspective a person wants to take on
