The Picture of Dorian Gray Characters: Complete Analysis
The Picture of Dorian Gray features complex characters representing different aspects of society, each embodying themes of the novel.
Dorian Gray is stunningly beautiful and becomes corrupted by his own vanity. Lord Henry Wotton is the aristocrat whose cynical, hedonistic philosophy corrupts Dorian. Basil Hallward is the artist who paints Dorian's portrait and loves him (in a way Victorian society couldn't openly discuss). Sibyl Vane is the actress Dorian cruelly abandons, which starts his moral decline.