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THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY: A GAY NOVEL
In his article "The Gay Artist as Tragic Hero The Picture of Dorian Gray" Henry M. Alley discs the central artistic figure Osr Wil's novel, Basil Hallward. As the novel's tragic protagonist, he mands the most py and fear and serv as the most dynamic member of the dramatis personae. Alley ntextualiz his discsn wh Aristotle's Poetics, ntemporary cricism, as well as Wil's own ments. In addn, Alley looks at Hallward's attempt to hi or censor his gay feelgs as parallel to Wil's stggle wh the var versns of the novel. Neverthels, the characterizatn of Hallward celebrat the possible harmony between moral and athetic bety, and, further, to affirm gay love, such as Wil also saw the liv of Shakpeare and Michelangelo. As other crics have poted out, The Picture of Dorian Gray anticipat the tragic end of Osr Wil's own life. Neverthels not enough strs has been placed on the sympathy eliced by the two dramas. Yet, both the artistic tale and the bgraphy, a gay man to a tragic end bee of an admirable attachment to a beg who neverthels would or uld not return the sacred "love that dare not speak s name." * picture of dorian grey gay *
Dorian Gray is not about homosexualy. (I say same-sex stead of homosexual as is hard to tell whether some characters may be gay or bisexual.
) This is important bee may mean that Dorian Gray is a better ditor of how 19th century society viewed homosexualy than Monsir Ven was of how 19th century society viewed transgenr inti.
To put more simply, Dorian Gray is different than Monsir Ven bee Dorian Gray is an si job; was wrten by a gay thor, for a gay dience. Many fans of LGBT lerature will already know that Osr Wil was gay, and that he went to prison for two years after the Marqus of Queensbury (the father of Wil’s lover) proved his claim that Wil was gay was not crimal libel, but rather statg a fact.