The Picture Of Dorian Gray: review

 2 June 2023- 22:43

 I will never be the same again.

I have no words for the things I felt when I read Dorian Gray, no possible words can define this feeling- the things I’m feeling right now. I took my laptop in my hand as soon as I finished it, and my hands are shaking right now just as I am writing this review.

 In the middle of my nap. I felt as if I am Dorian myself, except I could not move myself it was as if my mind is being held in lord henry’s hand, I was fidgeting, I could see and feel what was happening, but could not move, I was in pain, in dread, but I could not get off from my sleep. I didn’t realize when I slept and how my head was on the book, my pencil beside my ear, and my sticky notes, under me. It was as if the book did hold some sort of vicious black magic, though it was a simple 247 pages book I bought from om book shop but had powerful words by Wilde. 

When I say poets should write books often, I mean it because "The Picture of Dorian Gray" is the best book, I have ever read in the entire 15 years of my life. Yet I am not old enough to judge “the best book” but I am positive that no other book can ever compete with this book. I felt goosebumps on my face, my hands trembling as I read the last page, the heat of passion and shifting eyes with dread-ly water coming from them. My head is spinning, and I feel as if I am possessed by this book, or I should say moved by this book. 

Majorly the story is based upon external beauty and internal beauty but describing it just as this would insult the book more than it will insult the reader the most. This book portrays more than one moral. It has a strongly engaging storyline, well-developed characters, and most of all visuals.

 Going back to the “moral”, first let me take you through the story- there once was a charming young man or I should rather say boy- called Dorian Gray, with innocence in his smile and passion on his face. He might be the most beautiful person ever seen in nineteenth-century London- met a painter ‘Basil Hallward’, who greatly admired him and used him as his sitter for his painting because of his beautiful face, well just not the face but even his personality. Basil painted him his portrait, moved by the words of cynical Lord Henry Wotton, Dorian wished him to be forever young and retain his physical beauty forever whereas his portrait is to be marked with age and his moral degradation. 

Me telling anything furthermore will ruin the story, the plot, and- well basically everything about this book. I have my psychology when it comes to books and movies “The less you know the better"