The personality of Dorian Gray is a combination of so many contradictions that we can barely comprehend them. He is good and at the same time bad; beautiful and at the same time hideous; flawless and at the same time terribly reprehensible.

The most important of all: he is literally two in one – he is who he is, a living being and at the same time a portrait, a visible reflection of his soul. The issue is that Dorian is not the only one with a distorted view of true beauty. He is well aware that most people tend to confuse external appearance with inner beauty, and for this reason, as much as he can project an image of a sinner outwardly, he can sin freely.

It is true that terrible rumors swirl around his name, but the people who know him up close can't believe them. What keeps him going is his perfect "image" – he lives exclusively for physical pleasures and derives enjoyment from his own aesthetic merits.

Dorian stubbornly finds pleasure in his useless and corrupt soul. He does not worry about his portrait because he feels guilt, but because he fears that his secret may be revealed. And the most dreadful secret of all is that the problem is not the portrait itself, but what the way Dorian perceives the portrait means to him.

He is fully aware of how wicked he is, but he does not want to do anything to change. He is fascinated by his wickedness, he loves wickedness. By the end of the novel, it is already too late – despite the apparent innocence and incredible beauty, the real Dorian is unrepentantly evil.