The Portra of Dorian Gay is based on the story by Osr Wil, about a young man who don't want to get olr, yet the portra of him the attic reflects his ongog age and pury.
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THE PORTRA OF DORIAN 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.
” It would seem that Dorian Gray Osr Wil reveals his own experienc as a gay man. The first time we see homosexualy the book is when Basil Howard, the pater, nfs to his iend Harry that the recent spiratn his art is due to Basil’s relatnship wh a man named Dorian Gray.
THE PICTUR OF DORIAN GAY
Through Harry and Dorian’s reactns to Basil’s sexualy we n see the difference between a book wrten by an thor wh the LGBT muny and one on the outsi lookg ; Wil do not feel the need to make the book about homophobia. ” It is possible that Dorian blackmails Alan for beg gay, and is threateng to send evince to the police or perhaps to Alan’s mother.
THE PORTRA OF DORIAN GAY (1974)
If Wil wrote Dorian Gray for a gay dience, he may have believed his dience would be able to fer this. The Picture of Dorian Gray do not feel the need to be about homosexualy, same-sex relatnships, or homophobia. And bee Wil himself was gay, he was able to wre for a gay dience, showg that the day to day life of gay/bisexual men the 19th c.