The Picture Of Dorian Gray 2

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to experience. Dorian finds extreme pleasure in experiencing through all the sentiments that Sibyl gives. Being a spectator to the different lives and stories amuses Dorian: one evening Sibyl is Juliet, next evening she is Imogen, another night, she is Roselind.
Art is something that arouse imaginations, imaginations of the viewer. In order for imagination to live, reality must not exist. ˇ§She regarded me merely as a person in a play. She knows nothing of lifeˇ¨ (61). Art is not ˇ§realˇ¨, or, rather, it forms its own type of reality, its own world. ˇ§ˇKbefore I knew you (Dorian), acting was the one reality of my life. It was only in the theatre that I lived. I thought that it was all trueˇ¨ (95). Before Sibyl fell in love with Dorian, she lives in a world or Art, a world of imaginations. That great pureness of Art is so powerful that she can spiritualize her audiences, and give them a soul if they lived without one, create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid ...

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