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  1. Feb 2017
    1. Dorian’s whims are laws to everybody, except himself.”

      another piece of evidence supporting Dorian's power

    2. There was something in his face that made one trust him at once. All the candor of youth was there, as well as all youth’s passionate purity. One felt that he had kept himself unspotted from the world.22 No wonder Basil Hallward worshipped him. He was made to be worshipped.

      I believe that Oscar ideally would like to be seen this way, immediately trusted and worshipped without giving anything of his intelligence or soul away. Dorian is effortless and already powerful.

  2. Jun 2016
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    1. He was made to be worshipped.

      Wilde over-exaggerates the human form here, specifically for a man, painting Dorian as something of a god.