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... Trevor Kinblom AP English The Picture of Dorian Gray Essay Relevance a novel has to today's society does not hinge on the year that the book was written, but if the novel's topic is still pertinent to the problems society faces. This is the case for Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. Even though Dorian Gray was first published in, 1891 over a hundred years ago several of the evils of society Wilde explores in Dorian Gray still exist today. Two of society's downfalls that Wilde brings to light in Dorian Gray are the topic of homosexuality and the veneration of youth and beauty. Wilde was a homosexual himself when he wrote this book; and being a homosexual at the time was outlawed. Wilde used the topic of homosexuality in Dorian Gray to show Victorian society that homosexuality was more wide spread than people would admit and that homosexuals
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