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I’m reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Gay pardoies. The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives. But in a queer reading, Dorian Gray’s relationships with male characters can be understood in terms of same sex attraction, oering a cautionary tale that exemplies the consequences of outing oneself as a gray individual in a traditional society.

But when she does find me out, she makes no row at all. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. Women seem simply not to interest him at all, and even when they're his equals like Gladyshe tires of them immediately.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

Homoerotic Male Friendships: Conclusion In Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, the bonding of these three characters, the power struggles between them, and the ambiguity of Dorian’s bodily pleasures help one to speculate regarding Oscar Wilde’s homoerotic intentions for the novel.

Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. We're not entirely sure to make of this comment from Lord Henry — we find out as the novel goes on that his relationship with his wife is certainly not one of mutual attraction.

OK — if Gay Henry thinks that men and women are never happy married, what then is the best and most fulfilling state of companionship? Everything you ever wanted to know about the quotes talking about Sexuality and Sexual Identity in The Picture of Dorian Gray, written by experts just for you.

I sometimes wish she would; but she merely laughs at me. But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself. He doesn't offer us any answer. Much of the material that Stoddart cut makes the homoerotic nature of Basil Hallward’s feelings for Dorian Gray more vivid and explicit than either of the two subsequent published versions, or else it accentuates elements of homosexuality in Dorian.

Wilde doesn't come out and say it, but we can think of one so-called "forbidden" desire that not just the soul, but the actual government of nineteenth-century England made "monstrous and unlawful" — homosexuality, which we might associate here with the "Hellenic ideal.

Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us. Introduction Oscar Wilde’s e Picture of Dorian Gray can be read as a cautionary tale against decadence and depravity. Lord Henry's derogatory, condescending view of women is a theme that lingers through the entire book.

My wife is very good at it -- much better, in fact, than I am. Or, to put it another. What is Lord Henry attracted to, then? We are punished for our refusals. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. I never dorian where my wife is, and my wife never knows what I am doing.

The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. So far, I have read the first few pages, and I noticed Basil saying things like “I meet him [Dorian Gray], I cannot be happy without meeting h. When we meet -- we do meet occasionally, when we dine out together, or go down to the Duke's -- we tell each other the most absurd stories with the most serious faces.

The vast majority of Stoddart’s deletions were acts of censorship, bearing on sexual matters of both a homosexual and a heterosexual nature. She never gets confused over her dates, and I always do. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.