Was Lord Henry/ “Harry” meant to serve as a literary depiction of a Victorian-era Satan? Or is it simply the case that the decadent, self-righteous prattling of hipsters is indecipherable from satanic niggerbabble?
Lord Henry is Oscar Wilde's unfavorable depiction of himself
>>25262620this anon knows
just imagine a 19th century dudebro podcaster
I guess what I’m trying to figure out is whether Dorian really was just an innocent soul, who was influenced by terrible (yet ordinary) people to do evil, in the matter of his curse was an unfortunate coincidence… Or, if he was a victim of Satan through Basil and especially Wotton, which would explain the aforementioned phenomena of the portrait. Either read presents a completely different interpretation of the story.
>>25262612I got the impression he was something like satan too, he is the trigger for Dorian's wish and recurring impetus for his degeneration.
>>25262620This. It takes Oscar Wilde's own philosophy to it's extremes and shows the negative consequences of it.
I thought it was common knowledge the characters of that book represented the Id, Ego, and Super ego.
