o Mr. Hyde he would involuntarily appear on his own. As Hyde, he is an unstoppable, powerful beast, as Jekyll, he is the shell of a man, wracked in guilt and feelings of incompetence. Dr. Jekyll was so tormented with what he had now become that he had to explain everything even murder to one of his colleagues Mr. Utterson. In order to take control over Mr. Hyde who was getting stronger, and Dr. Jekyll weaker the only remedy was to kill himself. I didn't look at Jekyll and Hyde as a horror story but as a man wanting to change his inner self and doing so he had to kill what was within. On the other hand I believe Dorian Gray could relate to Jekyll's hidden identity and how he was trying to function with two different personalities.
             Immortal, seductive, and dangerous can be the only words that come to mind when I think of Dorian Gray. The Picture of Dorian Gray was arch-aesthete Oscar Wilde's only novel written in 1890; Oscar Wilde wrote a number of poems and children's stories like The Happy Prince, The House of Pomegranates, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and other stories before the Picture of Dorian Gray were published. The story takes place in the 1900's in London. Dorian was a vain artist; who had a picture painted of himself by a friend named Basil Hallward when he was in the prime of his life. Overwhelmed by the fear of his own mortality, he made a deal with the devil, Dorian swore that he would give up his soul if that the painting would age while he would remain forever young. Through a dark, occult mechanism that was given to him by Lord Henry which was a book that seemed to predict his own life and every sin from his past, his wish became a reality, Dorian was now able to remain young and never age. He kept th
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