When we grow older we lose some physical aspects that are involved in beauty but we should look further than that. We are a bit stupid if we just look at what we can see. Beauty is a deeper concept. Beauty can be reached by 3 different ways in my opinion:
-Externally: in fact this is what makes people attract others at first sight.
-Mood: A person could be extremely good looking and completely mental useless, so it's for me the most important fact involved in beauty.
-Magnetism: Some people have it. I would define it as the capability of attracting people by just existing, for no particular reason. It's not essential, but it makes people look quite more beautiful.
For this reason I state that: "Beauty resides in nothing but existence itself". Because beauty is in each of us. Maybe it is the way we smile, on the way we cry, it doesn't matter, we all have beauty in us.
In relation to the story I think that it can be seen as an attack to modern's beauty conception. The exageration in Dorian's case is a very effective tool in Wilde's criticism. The issue is that Dorian's obsession is what ends up killing him, so maybe this is the thing we can learn from Oscar Wilde's book.
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