Effect on Soul and Body

Until this time, we discussed lots of subject about the book. If some of those subject are true, I can say that this book is a reflection of Oscar Wilde, is an inner conflicts of Oscar Wilde. In the book, Dorian Gray's soul and body are not complete. When his body was imprisoned, his soul is free as depending on Lord Henry. In first times, Dorian knew these words' meanings and importance, soul and body till he met Lord Henry. In the film, my subject is reflected in a scene. In this scene, Lord Henry took Dorian Gray to a club which is in a poor ward. When Dorian Gray saw many prostitutes, he asks that isn't there any effect on soul. Lord Henry felt lonely and homesick because according to him, when you take pleasure, there mustn't be anything like being ashamed. Why I didn't give an example from the book? I gave this example because visual things are more memorable :):):) What is thing which affected Dorian Gray? Of course, secular pleasure, beauty, youth and genius. I believe that maybe Oscar Wilde did a bad thing in that period he lived but this book came to today and it created us to have a chance to discuss. I have never thought before these words so deeply. Beauty, Genius and Youth... We are always talking about them. Our expectations depend on them. Everything doesn't have equal conditions and because of these, we are in this state.     

THE DESIRES OF WORDS

“I am what *you* made me! I lived the life that you preached... but never dared practice. I am everything that you were too afraid to be.”
For the first time, Dorian notices to the truth of his own beauty when he sees Basil's portrait of him and Lord Henry’s words after he sees the portrait. Lord Henry told him that he was beautiful, but when he aged he would no longer have beauty. He thinks how important beauty is, and that he can give everything to keep his physical beauty. He comprehends the most important thing of him is his beauty. Beauty is more important than his soul.
I believe that this is one of the most important questions of the book: What are the effects of words on people? Being a witty person of words gained pleasure to Lord Henry; he began to talk to Dorian at once with a serious tone and with clarity of the sentences: “You are too charming to go in for philanthropy, Mr. Gray – far too charming.” Dorian couldn’t notice the thing which made Lord Henry was pleasure. When he looked back on his life, he got that beauty was not the most important thing. All the things happened because of the desires of words.
To Wilde, words were material and real: “Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape of them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?” How can they change one’s life completely? How?!