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TEXT: Dorian kills the painting and himself - Coggle Diagram
TEXT: Dorian kills the painting and himself
PLOT
Dorian returns home and looks at the portrait.
It shows all the evil he has done.
He wants to destroy it to free himself from his sins.
Dorian takes a knife and stabs the painting.
The portrait becomes young and beautiful again, while Dorian instantly dies.
Servants find an old, horrible man on the floor and only the rings reveal that it is Dorian.
THEMES
duality
(appearance vs reality)
corruption and sin
fear of ageing
art vs life
SYMBOLS
portrait
= conscience / sin / hidden self
youth
= illusion
knife
= self-destruction
TONE
dark, tense, mysterious
death, silence, fear
MESSAGE
you can’t escape your sins
art is eternal, humans are not
beauty without morality destroys
The portrait reveals the truth of the soul: physical beauty cannot hide moral corruption.