The Picture of Dorian Gray was originally published in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, but the editor was so shocked by some of the novel that he decided to censor it. He viewed it as having “homosexual allusions,” and that led to him cutting and changing around 500 words before it was published, and he didn’t ask Wilde for permission at all.
That wasn’t the end of the trouble for the Irish author, though. Just five years later, he found himself accused of “gross indecency,” which was the charge in the UK against homosexuality. The prosecutor decided to use The Picture of Dorian Gray against him, despite the novel being fiction. The guilt was in artist Basil Hallward’s love for Dorian from the censored version of the story.
Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, poet, and wit, born Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills in 1854. (Photo by Napoleon Sarony/Bettmann/Getty Images)The novel was ahead of its time, and it is now viewed as a masterpiece of homoerotic literature. Eventually, Harvard University Press would publish the original manuscript, which include more explicit language between Dorian and artist Basil Hallward. Modern adaptations have honed in on that element of the novel, often making Dorian bisexual or pansexual.
In the end, Dorian trades his soul for youth, and the painting ages instead of him. There’s a lesson in hedonism and living a double life, as Dorian starts to turn into a monster who ruins lives, becoming the very thing people would fear or hate.
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