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* {{Narm}}: [[WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency Dorian expecting the portrait to change back instantly only because he is]] ''[[WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency thinking]]'' [[WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency of behaving more virtuously onwards.]] Even if the picture would have changed as he wanted, isn't it more logical to think it would have done so only after he had fulfilled his promise? The painting ''itself'' mocks him, as the only change is a hypocritical smile forming on its lips.
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* {{Narm}}: [[WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency Dorian expecting the portrait to change back instantly only because he is]] ''[[WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency thinking]]'' [[WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency of behaving more virtuously onwards.]] Even if the picture would have changed as he wanted, isn't it more logical to think it would have done so only after he had fulfilled his promise? Then again, it fits Dorian's staggering narcissism in that he believes that merely thinking about becoming better, and for selfish purposes at that, is on par with actually doing so and deserving of recognition. The painting ''itself'' mocks him, as the only change is a hypocritical smile forming on its lips.lips.
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** The topic of homosexuality, on the editor’s part, not the author’s. Wilde was forced to delete some more explicit references to it prior to publication, and add lines making the characters seem more heterosexual. Some more recent editions have restored his original intentions.
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** The topic of homosexuality, homosexuality-- on the editor’s part, not the author’s. Wilde was forced to delete some more explicit references to it prior to publication, and add lines making the characters seem more heterosexual. Some more recent editions have restored his original intentions.
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* AccidentalAesop: The novel can be interpreted to teach that living a debauched life is self-destructive, even though Oscar Wilde meant for the book to have no moral.
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* MemeticMutation: Anyone looking much younger than their age is often jokingly stated to have an "ugly portrait in their attic." (This joke is occasionally inverted, where a less-than-good-looking Acceptable Target is said to have "escaped from Dorian Gray's attic.")
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** Anyone looking much younger than their age is often jokingly stated to have an "ugly portrait in their attic." (This joke is occasionally inverted, where a less-than-good-looking Acceptable Target is said to have "escaped from Dorian Gray's attic.")
** Anyone looking much younger than their age is often jokingly stated to have an "ugly portrait in their attic." (This joke is occasionally inverted, where a less-than-good-looking Acceptable Target is said to have "escaped from Dorian Gray's attic.")
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* {{Narm}}: [[WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency Dorian expecting the portrait to change back instantly only because he is]] ''[[WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency thinking]]'' [[WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency of behaving more virtuously onwards.]] Even if the picture would have changed as he wanted, isn't it more logical to think it would have done so only after he had fulfilled his promise?
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* {{Narm}}: [[WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency Dorian expecting the portrait to change back instantly only because he is]] ''[[WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency thinking]]'' [[WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency of behaving more virtuously onwards.]] Even if the picture would have changed as he wanted, isn't it more logical to think it would have done so only after he had fulfilled his promise?promise? The painting ''itself'' mocks him, as the only change is a hypocritical smile forming on its lips.
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* VindicatedByHistory: The original novella version of the story was so poorly received that the magazine that printed it issued a recall for all copies of the issue, and the book version was both forcibly edited and largely ignored aside from scandals over its contents. Today it's considered one of the greats of Gothic horror.
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* CommonKnowledge: It is a common belief that seeing his portrait would kill Dorian. In fact, Dorian in the novel goes to watch his portrait from time to time; it's when he tries to destroy it that he dies. The portrayal of Dorian in ''Film/LeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' helped to cement the misconception.
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* CommonKnowledge: It is a common belief that seeing his portrait would kill Dorian. In fact, Dorian in the novel goes to watch his portrait from time to time; it's when he tries to destroy it that he dies. The portrayal of Dorian in ''Film/LeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' helped to cement the misconception.
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* CommonKnowledge: It is a common belief that seeing his portrait would kill Dorian. In fact, Dorian in the novel goes to watch his portrait from time to time; it's when he tries to destroy it that he dies.
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* CommonKnowledge: It is a common belief that seeing his portrait would kill Dorian. In fact, Dorian in the novel goes to watch his portrait from time to time; it's when he tries to destroy it that he dies. The portrayal of Dorian in ''Film/LeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' helped to cement the misconception.
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* {{Glurge}}: the forceful, carried-away idealizing of gay love in Dorian's thoughts after Basil's confession.
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* {{Glurge}}: the The forceful, carried-away idealizing of gay love in Dorian's thoughts after Basil's confession.
