Blog 2: Continuing on 'About the book'

That is exactly what you should be thinking at this point because when he gets home, he sees the painting, and it has a cruel smile on its lips. This is when he realises what has happened and it begins to get worse from their. Sybil commits suicide, and he decides to hide the painting. he becomes a socialite and people really like him, even though they hear rumours of him doing terrible things. As years go by he starts to spend more and more time looking at his painting. He corrupts other young men, and doesn't care what people might think he gets up to, because his reputation is still intact, whereas the other young men's are not.

He shows basil the painting, and Basil is disgusted by it. He fights with Dorian and tells him to pray for forgiveness, but Dorian refuses to and kills Basil. He gets rid of the body and after that he tries to find a way of escaping. He starts to take opium and that 'helps' him. 

After about 6 months, he begins to wonder if the portrait has changed, after all of his good behaviour. When he goes to the attic, his hiding spot, he realises that it is actually worse, and that the blood on his hand has spread to his other hand and on his foot. He thinks that if he just get rid of it then it will do nothing to him, so he picks up the knife he used to stab Basil and slashes the painting. When his servants come into the room after hearing horrible screaming, they see an old man lying dead on the floor, and the painting looking just as young and beautiful as Dorian had looked the day before. 

Blog 1: About the book

The picture of Dorian Gray is about a boy called Dorian Gray and his life. Starting from when Basil Hallward (a friend of Dorian's) paint a picture of him. This picture it very important, hence why it is called 'the picture of Dorian Gray.' Dorian is about 19 in the book, and is quite an innocent character. But as the book goes on, he starts to be very influenced by another one of his friends, who is also a friend of Basil's, Lord Henry Wotton.

The book is about the picture made of Dorian because the picture is quite special. After the painting is made, Dorian says: "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young, It will  never be older than this particular day in June.... If it were only the other way! if it were I who was to always be young, and that the picture was to grow old! for that- for that- I would give everything! yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!"

 It takes Dorian a little while to realise that it is, in fact, the other way around and he first realises that a few months later when he is engaged to marry Sybil Vane, a poor actress who he meets in a bad theatre. She is both a beautiful girl and a beautiful actress, but claims that: "Tonight, for the first time in my life, I saw through the hollowness, the sham, the silliness of the empty pageant in which I had always played." By this she means that she finally understands the stupidity of acting, that none of it is real. This cause Dorian to break off their marriage, saying that he used to love her for her acting as well as her beauty, but now that she is a horrible actor, she seems shallow and stupid. Sounds a little cruel, doesn't it?