“I don’t believe these rumors at all… Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man’s face. It cannot be concealed… If a wretched man has a vice, it shows in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the molding of his hands even” (Wilde 154).

This statement is what is wrong with the world’s conception of beauty. People usually associate beauty with righteousness, justice, and fairness, which is not always true. Basil is the embodiment of the societal idolization of beautiful people. Some live and breathe to idolize good looking people. They are so blinded by their looks that they would not believe anything that would taint their good reputation, even if this is universally felt by most people. It is true that Dorian has the portrait to bore his burdens for him but physical appearance will never dictate ones personality. This is true for Dorian. Well it is evident that no one will be able to tell how Dorian is in the inside but it is not a reason to believe that his angelic face is coherent with his devilish personality. For Basil and most people is much easier do deny the truth than accept it. Admitting that Dorian is a wicked man is kind of going against his belief, because the person he has loved for so long would be nothing but a foe. It is hard for someone who you highly respect and revered is like the devil himself. It is so hard for Basil to accept it even when he got all the evidence he needed condemn him. He begged Dorian to disprove what was adherently true: “If you tell me that they are absolutely untrue from beginning to end, I shall believe you. Deny them, Dorian, deny them!” (157). It is very understandable the way Basil feel because the one person I wish and so desperately wanted to be good is the most hated person in London it gives you the feeling of misjudgment and lost. In this situation Dorian was probably someone the was not wroth befriending, just based on the simple fact that he ends up killing Basil, but a true friend that you love is something different and you will try to preserve your friendship and their good names at cost. It just happened that the price was Basil’s life even if it was not to bring his friend to the road to redemption but it was worth the try.

“You [Basil] met me, flatteredme, and taught me to be vain of my good looks” (161).
It is strange to think that Dorian blames Basil for his misfortunes but it is something that can be understood. Maybe if he had never met Basil he never had encounter Henry. Nonetheless, as much as he wants to put the blame on someone else he is the source of his own misfortunes. Dorian was the one who decided to go down the path of sin. He had so many chances to turn away but he was most existed with the feeling of being loved and living life on the edge. What is worst is that he knows the consequences and is very ashamed of them. He hid the picture so no one see it. He is obsess with it and checks how it changes and how ugly it gets but never does anything to change. One must then wonder why he care so much that the picture had changed. Dorian is waiting for a miracle to happen, which fun because most miracles happen when you work for them. Dorian just does not know that the power for him to change