The novel The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is a fantasy novel that tries to demonstrate that showing one's weakness scares one to death.
             The portrait of Dorian Gray, which was painted by Basil Hallward, was admired by his friends; and everybody desired to meet this extraordinarily beautiful young man, who had a poisonous influence on people. In other words, he was supposed to be an ideal of beauty. Lord Henry Wotton flattered Dorian with his comments on the virtues of beauty, the charms of youth and expressed his sadness at the thought that such youth should fade into the ugliness of age. This caused Dorian plummet into melancholy. Seeing his portrait for the first time, Dorian gasped at his own beauty. Then, he began to think "I know, now, that when one loses one's good looks, whatever they may be, one loses everything. (...) When I find that I'm growing old, I shall kill myself." He wished instead that the picture might grow old while he remained forever young. Later on, one day, on returning home he was surprised to notice that the face in his painting had changed. He continued to guard the secret of his portrait from everybody, first covering it with a sheet, and later moving it to an upstairs room. Men would whisper to each other in corners as though they were determined to discover his secret. By this time, Dorian had become totally corrupt as ugly as the figure in his portrait. He began to kill his friends, who discovered his secret in the upstairs room. Finally, on the floor was a dead man, "a withered, wrinkled, and loathsome man," with a knife in his heart. Only the rings on his fingers revealed his identify. It was Dorian Gray, who, in a miscarried struggle to kill his conscience, had killed himself.
             Although this story was written in the 19th century, the values and expectations of society are still much the same. The deal is; one should never show the real portrait that the public never
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