"The picture had not changed. It was a folly to think so" (Wilde 96).
The art itself did not change. It was Dorian's perception of art that was warped. When most people think of art, they think of an abstract criteria that man's aesthetic creations meet. Early in the text Dorian blindly accepts everything he is told and is happy. Now that Dorian has tried to uphold a certain criteria for art, his innocence has vanished. Originally Dorian consumed all beauty as artistic rendition. Now Dorian accepted very little and is beginning to starve his conscience of objective goodness.
"When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has the right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution" (Wilde 100).
In The Crucible, the townspeople made the fatal error of valuing the publicity of a confession over its purpose to cleanse sins. This has existed as a serious problem for the haughty man in the bible to the haughty ones in the white house. The Speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi frequently spends large sums of tax payer dollars on military transportation and airline luxuries. The Military she used cost about sixty thousand dollars one-way. Some politicians pretend to carry a tired America on the backs of outward charity. They pat us on the leg with their promises of change, but when the burden becomes a tad difficult, America is abandoned only to find a violated pocket of American trust and the absence of the wallet of taxpayer dollars.
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