Book Opinionist

Is morality real? How much of it can be compromised? Is conscience real? How much hits can the conscience take before it goes down and takes the whole body along with it? These are the questions explored in the gothic philosophical drama "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde. Story told from changing point-of-views, but without the acknowledgement of the change, just like other novels of the time, revolves around the title character Dorian Gray and the moral spiral he decides to climb or descend. His inspiration and guide is Lord Henry who is the Devil himself. Or at least that is what I believe. Attributing Lord Henry to the Devil himself is not an attempt by me to dehumanize him. But rather an attempt to humanize the Devil. It is my way of pointing at the lines inside our hearts that divides our conscience into a battle between good and evil. The person who deserves to be called the Devil is the one in whom the evil has already won the battle and has enslaved the good...