I have been reading Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray for the last few weeks. While I am not finished with it, I just wanted to comment on how interesting of a book it is. An artist paints a picture of Dorian and Dorian believes that this portrait alone shows the corruption of his soul, his sins. He wishes to hide the portrait away in a room at the top of his house so that no one ever sees it. "Beneath its purple pall, the face painted on the canvas could grow bestial, sodden, and unclean. What did it matter? No one could see it. He himself would not see it. Why should he watch the hideous corruption of his soul? He kept his youth - that was enough. And, besides, might not his nature grow finer, after all? There was no reasons that the future should be so full of shame."