Coralie Casimir
The Ugliness of Beauty

Dorian Grey is a selfish and proud young lad whose obsession with his looks led him doing the path of unrighteousness.
Dorian Grey is a man who traded his soul for eternal beauty. After, Basil Hallward painted this magnificent portrait of him; Dorian became sadden by the fact that his beauty was going to fade with time. So, he made the fatal wish to have the portrait grow old and he stayed young. Dorian’s beauty was something people admired. This quickly gave him power over the young men and women of London. With his new found influence Dorian abandoned any desires for happiness and only sought pleasure: “I have never searched for happiness. Who want happiness? I want pleasure” (Wilde 202). The best way he found it was through iniquity. He used men and women for these quick pleasures and who throw them away like objects. He was able to do this with almost no remorse because he was no longer the one who bore his conscience, the portrait did.
Dorian Grey is like a drug addict. They live for the constant pleasure but not for the pursuit of happiness. Dorian’s life is centered on his self infatuation and idea that every impulse is wroth acting upon. Dorian became addicted to the small pleasures he would get from people or drugs. His life was centered on having a good time and not suffers the consequences. Like a drug addict, Dorian was somewhat conscious of his sins but over rules his conscious with even more immorality. Addict believe that the delight felt from indulging in debauchery is wroth everything in the world, even ones soul.
Dorian Grey is like Kevin Federline a self proclaimed celebrity who used his wife’s money for his own pleasure, just like Dorian used countless people and drugs to satisfy his hunger for pleasure.