Throughout the world, many people find themselves searching for a feeling of love and desire. Some achieve this level of passion while others are left searching. In Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, there is a surprising connection between those who try to live life through passion and desire and their inability to find the feeling they are looking for. Both Lord Henry and his young protégée, Dorian Gray, claim to live by the “new Hedonism” and dedicate their lives to temptation and pleasure. However, it is the simpler characters that appear to find love. Near the middle of the novel, Oscar Wilde describes a scene which illustrates clearly the difference in Dorian and Sibyl Vane’s perception of love.
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