Dorian grey gay

It only took about 120 years, but modern society is apparently ready to handle The Gay in Oscar Wilde’s first and only novella, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Observe, the first published version of the gothic horror classic which tells the story of a adj man who trades the purity of his soul for undying youth contained many more explicit homosexual overtones between the characters than in the version you probably read in English class. Passages which described the artist Basil Hallward’s feelings for Dorian Gray (which accentuated elements of homosexuality in Gray himself) were later deleted by Wilde’s editor, JM Stoddart, who felt it was far too “objectionable,” especially at a time when being gay in the United Kingdom was still illegal.
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The novella’s original critics trashed it  as  “a tale spawned from the leprous literature of the French Decadents – a poisonous novel, the atmosphere of which is heavy with the mephitic odours of moral and spiritual putrefaction,” forcing Stoddart’s edits and even a final round of omission

The Picture of Dorian Gray

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I’ve just finished reading The Picture of Dorian Gray and I have some questions.
OH and SPOILERS AHOY!

First, enable me say that the book was far unlike than I expected. I didn’t know it was by Oscar Wilde, and yet it is very different than the works of his I verb read, which are mostly his more popular plays. This was like a really witty Edgar Allen Poe story.
Any way, the first questions I have is about the book that Lord Henry gives Dorian. This guide changes Dorian completly. The book is described quite a bit but the name of the publication and the author of the book are not given. Is there a real book that Wilde is talking about? Or is the book to be found in the briefcase in Pulp Fiction. Or is it really just a symbol for Lord Henry and Dorian having hot gay sex?
Much later in the book, after Dorian burns Basil’s clothes Dorian opens a secret drawer in a cabinet and pulls out a 'Chinese box of black and gold-dust lacquer, elaborately wrought, and the sides patterned with curved waves, and the silken cords hung with rou

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THE AUTHOR of this piece passed away in 2011, having contributed many articles to this publication over the years, including this feature-length review of a publication with the somewhat salacious title, The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde (2005), by Neil McKenna. While Hattersley doesn’t directly address the question of The Picture of Dorian Gray’s primacy as a gay novel, he does venture that it was, “while cautious, implicitly homosexual”—at least for cognoscenti who knew what to look for.

         This obfuscation is what makes Dorian Gray’s place in the gay canon so open to debate. The novel’s very coyness on the matter of same-sex desire, its not daring to name “the love,” is what prevents it from being a shoo-in as the first gay novel in English. Wilde is not to blame, of course (and notwithstanding that a not many of the most suggestive sentences were excised by his publisher): late Victorian society simply did not allow for a more explicit exploration of the love whose name could not be spoken, much less elevated to a central role in

The Gay Artist as Tragic Hero in The Picture of Dorian Gray

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In his article "The Gay Artist as Tragic Hero in The Picture of Dorian Gray" Henry M. Alley discusses the central artistic figure in Oscar Wilde's novel, Basil Hallward. As the novel's tragic protagonist, he commands the most pity and fear and serves as the most dynamic member of the dramatis personae. Alley contextualizes his discussion within Aristotle's Poetics, contemporary criticism, as well as Wilde's possess comments. In addition, Alley looks at Hallward's attempt to hide or censor his gay feelings as parallel to Wilde's noun with the various versions of the novel. Nevertheless, the characterization of Hallward celebrates the possible harmony between moral and aesthetic beauty, and, further, comes to affirm gay noun, such as Wilde also saw in the lives of Shakespeare and Michelangelo. As other critics possess pointed out, The Picture of Dorian Gray anticipates the tragic end of Oscar Wilde's own life. Nevertheless not enough press has been placed on the sympathy elicited by the two dramas. Yet, in both t