The Charm of Corruption Behind a Respectable Façade in The Picture of Dorian Gray

Civilization is a phenomenon full of temptations such as isolation, selfishness, idleness and decadence and culture is the main factor which affects the character, morality and intellect of people of a society and whatever is experienced by these people it is inseparable from their culture. A mirror of moral decay in Victorian middle-class, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde indicates that “there is no essential incongruity between crime and culture”(Pater, 1986: 152). In a society in which status and appearance are of great importance there are only two options, i

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culture, corruption, hypocrisy, good, evil, respectability, hedonist, duality, beauty, art, immortal