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The Stricture of Dorian Gray
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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan 
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. What are the rights of a given society over individual morality? . |
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Essorant Member Elite
since 2002-08-10
Posts 4769Regina, Saskatchewan; Canada |
Laws? |
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Alicat Member Elite
since 1999-05-23
Posts 4094Coastal Texas |
Asides which, what does this have to do with Dorian Gray? Naturally, I am assuming Dorian Gray is literally based, not factually, as writ by Oscar Wilde. |
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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan |
. In the story, Oscar Wilde asserted that for the talented, the rich or simply beautiful, the standard moralities did not and should not apply. And in historical fact has it not been shown to be true, accepted, if not defended by some significant portion of the main, (JFK, actually many Kennedys, princes princesses, kings and queens)? . |
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Alicat Member Elite
since 1999-05-23
Posts 4094Coastal Texas |
If anything, aside from slaughtered haikus seen above, Wilde's prose is a moral which you are affecting on life. Yes, it is a moral about vanity and the cost thereof. Your point? In case you missed it, watch Steve Martin's L.A. Story with a lyrical eye. The 'graveyard scene', taken from Shakespeare's Hamlet, should give some perception into the age-old battle of true age verses visible age, and the steps the vain undertake to prevent being true to themselves. Some people age very gracefully. The rest of us sods age with the help of vitamins, herbs, salves, ointments, spas and medical proceedures, to the best our personal budgets/credit can support, in order to 'look our best' before the undertaker's assistant plops that first shovel of damp sod upon our overpriced casket as we become egalitarian. |
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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
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. Alicat, If you read the story itself you sense that the ending in which Dorian suffers his fate was really slapped on perhaps to get it past the censors. Oscar himself pretty much practiced what he preached and never seemed to catch on even while in jail that he had done anything wrong. . |
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