“I admit that I think that it is better to be beautiful than to be good. But, on the other hand, no one is more ready than I am to acknowledge that it is better to be good than ugly” (Wilde 199).

If taking this quote in the context of inner beauty and inner ugliness, Dorian compromise his inner righteousness with is ugliness. One must wonder if physical beauty is enough to make someone immune to any type of punishment. Dorian seems to doge every misfortune that is thrown his way. One particular thing with sin is that it must be repented and Dorian has no interest in doing that. The odd thing about him is that he spends countless hours thinking about it and would feel some type of sorrow but then he would go back to his ways. When compared to Arthur Dimmesdale, Dorian’s ugliness will do nothing but sent him straight to hell. First thing like Arthur, Dorian thought about his sins would feel a little shame because of the way it id affecting his soul but nothing would come out of it. At least Arthur proceeded to punish himself. Dorian way of dealing with sin resembles Proctor the most. They know that they have sinned but do not do anything about it. Well, Proctor had better intentions than Dorian and ended up confessing at the end. In all I think Dorian’s end will be just like Abigail’s, two beautiful people who indulge into sin for their own benefit and Dorian doesn’t have a soul so it means that he probably has nothing to make him feel the need to repent and inter the Kingdom of God. Also two things that is evident in this novel is that Dorian listen to every word that Lord Henry says and secondly is that, “Ugliness became dear to him now for that very reason. Ugliness was the one reality” (191). Dorian’s knows that he is ugly and Henry is saying that righteousness is better than ugliness.

“Each man lived his own life, and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again” (194).

One of the harshest things about life is that once you mess up big time is like life is over. Because people are so reluctant to forgive, also one can pay for a little mistake for all there lives. It is not that I believe that someone has to pay for their crimes but people some times have to pay for a crime with their lives. Some times it is a crime they had asked forgiveness for or just do not understand what they have done. One of the most vivid examples of this was Bigger Thomas in Richard Wrights’ novel Native Son. Bigger paid price being black and it was like he was being severely taxed for being black. First he was cheated by the social system. He could dream of flying or having a better life because in the time he lived in none of these things was available to the black community. Because he was constantly suppressed for his color he grown to hate his suppressors the white community, and when they tried being nice to him he did know how to react to that and this led him to kill Mary Dalton. He killed her because he did not know how her mother would react to having him in her room. He acted out of fear because it was the only thing he was taught all his life is to fear and respect the whit community and that ultimately caused him his life. Bigger pay a price over and over again because he was black.