用半个月的时间看完了道林格雷的画像，磕磕绊绊，对于一个惯于看小说的人来说，这样的故事明显节奏性和故事性都要弱一些，而且在阅读的过程中，我也意识到了自己知识面的狭窄和认知的浅薄，有些很是玄妙的对但读了很多遍却无法明白，but all in all, it doesn't hram my worship of this book.
1. Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one.
2. There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us.
3. The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
4. I am afraid that women appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anythingelse.
5. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
6. When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others.
7. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
8. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect—simply a confession of failure.
These are wicked, evil-intentioned, full of prejudce, but that's why I was drawn to it. Such cynical and callous remarks about life is just what we need in this artificial world overwhelmed with so-called jsutice and good intentions. They give a vent to humanities' whims and caprices and justify the legitimacy of the dark side of us. I loved it.
The question that troubles me most after finishing the novel is that: is Dorian Grey really guilty?
Judging by the logic of the book, of course he is sinful, that's why his portrait became so loathsome, that's why those who once adored him began to shun him, that's why he culminated his life in such a tragedy.
but he is guilty for what? for bring bad influence to others? for corrupting the innocent? Then I am perplexed, is innocence a good thing? is untainted life desirable? After all, we are all criminals, bearing unspoken crimes, shuffling forward with ssecret sins. I can't blame him for what he had done.
Nextly, I will talk about something in the book.
The actress, an excellent actress, who resort to suicide just because her prince charming doesn't love her any more also deserve our attention. Before she had met Dorian Grey, she is a perfect artist, who can realize the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art, who can spiritulize almost everything. But after she met Dorian, the moment she touched reality, she was ruined and no more pure. She lost the aesthetic value. From this plot, we can see, firstly, art can only exist in spirits, reality can only make foul parody of it. Secondly, Dorian doesn't have real love, he only has ceaseless adorarion of art, he fall for Vane for er artistic sense, for she was like a wonderful work of art, not because she herself was wonderful.
Art can't coexist with human's self-consciousness. As with Sybil Vane, it is also the case for Basil. Just like what Henry had said, "Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. "
Sins can neither be punished nor forgiven. In this book, any one who wahted to took revenge died one by one, it's most ridiculosu for it contradicted a widespread tenent--evil will always be punished by justice. Dorian isn't punished by anyone, his decay encroached any place he went, hardly impeded. Not only the once innocent people fell prey to his corruption, those wanted to revolt or revenge all ended in failure, going dead or mad. When Dorian did somthing good to redeem his crimes, no change happen to his portrait, suggesting his crimes won't be forgiven whatever he had done.
In all, What's Dorian Grey? For me, he's like a Vampire, feeding on beauty and art to retain his youth. By the standards of society, he is guilty not for he is a Vampire, but because he is different from the rest.
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