PODG #6

I found the rest of The Picture of Dorian Gray to be fairly interesting. The last chapter was by far my favorite. "When they entered, they found hanging upon the wall a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty. Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was" (Orwell 165). I found this particular paragraph of the novel to be fairly interesting. Basil's portrait of Dorian changed due to the sin and evil he had committed throughout the book. At the end of the novel, Dorian attempted to ruin the portrait of himself, to rid the hideous face that he did not have, yet the portrait did. In a way, Dorian was destroying a part of himself that he did not know was part of his personality, or at least did not recognize it. This is significant because it shows that Dorian did not appreciate the changes he saw, even if they were on a portrait and not his physical changes.