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How do the characters help show the theme of idealistic views created by society?

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How do the characters help show the theme of idealistic views created by society?

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The characters add to the aesthetic movement that is happening during this time to help show the idealistic views created by society. Basil is an artist who we learn from the setting of the flower filled studio, takes his inspiration from his surroundings, and thus believes that flowers are a representation of youth and true beauty. Dorian Gray is influenced by Lord Henry and believes that youth is true beauty, this is supported by others reactions to him especially Basil's obsession with Dorian, seeing him as an image of beauty rather than as a person. Women also are used as an image of beauty but they that image is an idealistic view of women not fully true, they are seen as needing to be a certain way to be good enough we can see this through Lord Henry's thought on woman as a whole throughout the novel.

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"Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly" (48)

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"Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly" (48)

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Lord Henry tries to defer Dorian from pursuing the actress from the theatre that he saw perform, by stating the ideals of women during this time period.

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"You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with your rose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid" (19)

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"You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with your rose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid" (19)

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Lord Henry is trying to convince Dorian that youth and beauty is the most powerful in life and that Dorian should recognize it in himself.

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"Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself." (27)

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"Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself." (27)

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After Lord Henry influences Dorian Gray in the garden Dorian begins to hate the idea of growing old and it leads to him even saying that he would kill himself if he ever became old.