The Picture Of Dorian Gray 5

"Without your art you are nothing" (91)

Here we can see that Dorian was actually in love with Sibyl's gift of acting, and not really her as a person. He thinks that she is absolutely nothing without her acting and he thinks she is not real anymore. But it is ironic because when Sibyl is acting, she is false because she is not bring her true self, she is acting like someone else and all the people she is acting have all had wonderful lovers and lives of love. I think Dorian is just really in love with love, as Lord Henry did say.

"But the picture? What was he to say of that? It held the secret of his life, and told his story. It had taught him to love own beauty. Would it teacher him to loath his own soul? Would he ever look at it again?" (95)

We now have a glimpse that Dorian wish for the picture to age and not him came true. The thing that he loved more than anything in the world, it taught him to love himself but now that it is aging and he knows it will become visibly uglier he won't want to look at it again because he has become to obsessed with his good looks. Now Dorian is starting to realize what he has become since he met Lord Henry, he has become cold, and Dorian is worried that the picture will make him hate himself and who he has become, so he does not want to look at it again. But, I think he will not be able to resist the temptation to look at it because I think he really knows what he has become and will become and he wants to what his soul really looks like and he wants to get back to who he was.

disdain - A feeling of contempt and aversion; the regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn.

"Dorian Gray, with his beautiful eyes, looked down at her, and his chiseled lips curled in exquisite disdain" (92)

callousness - insensitive; indifferent; unsympathetic

"He remembered with what callousness he had watched her" (95)