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Lord Henry Wotton observes his friend Basil Hallward painting the portrait of a beautiful young man named Dorian Gray. Dorian arrives soon after and met Lord Henry. LordHenry talk about their own worldview and Dorian begins to believe that beauty is the only thing worth having in life and want the portrait that Basil is painting, age in place. Under the influence ofLord Henry, Dorian begins to explore their senses. One night he discovers Sibyl Vane, an actress who works in a seedy theater playing Shakespeare. Dorian proposes marriage. Sibyl has plans to hismother and his brother, referring to her fiance as "Prince Charming." His brother, James, warns that if "Prince Charming" ever harms her, he will kill him.

Dorian invites Basil and Lord Henry to seeSibyl act in its depiction of Romeo and Juliet. But Sibyl, overwhelmed by the excitement of the forthcoming marriage and love with Dorian, he loses interest in the theater, so badly that night playsJuliet. After the show, Dorian rejects Sibyl saying that beauty lies in its art and, as I could not act, then Dorian is no longer interested. Coldly decides to break the promise of marriage and not seeSibyl

One night, before leaving for Paris, Basil visits Dorian in his house to question him about all the rumors about his sins and vices and the people corrupted by its influence. Basil blamesDorian their own destiny and stabs him in a fit of rage. To get rid of the body, Dorian blackmails Alan Campbell, a chemist, into destroying the body with acid.
There, James Vane, Sybil's brother,hears a woman calling him "Prince Charming" and follows it with intent to kill, but gives up because the youthful appearance of Dorian makes it unlikely to have been involved in the suicide of her sistereighteen years earlier. James leaves to go to Dorian. The woman who knew the nickname "Prince Charming" is to complain about not killing him, revealing that Dorian has not aged eighteen years, she...