DORIAN GREY

It tells us about how other people can radically influence your life, whether you
allow them or not, how the decisions you make are no longer fully realized by you if
those people do not interfere to change them and that you assume is a more
suitable or a better one for your life. We observe that making a decision to change
your life or the way you see things can be the greatest, little by little you will be
doing activities or things that you had never thought to do and you will not give it
any importance since for you it will be the right one but for others it will not. But
beware, surrounding yourself with incorrect or correct people influences a lot in the
decision making that you get to have, as long as you let that person adhere to you
completely.
Little by little Dorian was acquiring attitudes that thanks to Lord Henry "opens his
eyes" at an early age and induces the young man to hedoism. He became a selfish
person as he only thought about meeting his needs and didn't care about what
others think, he only cared about sex, smoking, drinking and social status.
Dorian takes the book that Lord Henry had given him and acquires it as a manual.
Meanwhile, the physical ravages of his increasingly vile lifestyle and actions were
absorbed by his portrait, locked in the basement, eventually gaining a terrible
reputation.
Basically "The Retraction of Dorian Grey" is like a symbol in art that represents the
mirror of the actions of men, so that the aesthetic effect: the love for physical
beauty, appears accompanied by a moral significance, which will be followed by
self-awareness. Lord Henry advises Dorian in a way that he did not know he was
capable of adopting. Dorian acquires a power in which he acts as he wants without
his actions being reflected, but also that of seducing to bend the will of others in his
favor. This also mentions the symbolic power between beauty and youth, in
particular the story also focuses on reflection on aesthetics, how the character
acquires that importance by not aging and preserving.
Dorian Gray's portrait is a reflection on the merely partial value we so often place
on beauty. The young Dorian represents the fullness of youth, the eternal spring,
which nevertheless loses meaning if it does not have a natural limit and which is
sometimes overestimated.