The Picture Of Dorian Gray 10

"'You have gone from corruption to corruption, and now you have culminated in crime"' (176).

Here it can be seen that others do see Dorian's corruption, it is not hidden like he thinks it is. People hear stories and they pass them along, and not everything you hear is true, but actions speak louder than words. The way he acts towards things and the way he presents himself show that he has been very much corrupted, they show that these stories people are hearing are true. He is not the soft, naive, little boy he used to be, he is a hard, cruel corruption. For someone to be that cruel and harsh must be corrupted, the stories must be true. Dorian still seems to think that his soul and corruption is hidden within the portrait, so he thinks it is hidden from everyone and everything. With that, he does not even think twice about his actions because he thinks it will not be shown on him, not on his face, it will be shown on the face of the portrait, but little does he know that people see his actions.

"Then he stretched out his hand, took a piece of paper, and wrote something on it [...] and pushed it across the table [..] Campbell look at him in surprise, and then took up the paper and opened it. As he read it his face became ghastly pale, and hr fell back in his chair. A horrible sense of sickness came over him, He felt as if his heart was beating itself to death in some empty hollow" (174).

Here Dorian bribes Campbell to burn Basil's body. By Dorian doing this it shows just how not only cruel, but selfish Dorian is. Whatever Dorian said to Campbell or whatever Campbell has done, clearly was something so hurtful to Campbell that "he felt as if his heart was beating itself to death" (174). To cause someone that much pain by saying something to them, or threatening to do something that could ruin their life forever, you have to be completely and 100& callous and selfish. Dorian only cares about himself and will do absolutely anything and everything to make sure he is not caught of anything and to make sure his good reputation remains, but he is so caught up in the theory that no one can see his cruel actions because they are hidden in the portrait, he does to realize that his reputation is already ruined, and people do see his bad actions. Dorian has been caught.

liveries - a distinctive uniform, badge, or device formerly provided by someone of rank or title for his retainers
"He spent a long time also over breakfast, tasting various dishes, talking to his valet about some new liveries that he was thinking of getting made for the servants at Selby" (167).

precipice - a cliff with a vertical, nearly vertical, or overhanging face.
"Time seems to him to be crawling with feet of lead, while he by monstrous winds was being swept toward the jagged edge of some black cleft or precipice" (171).