Question

What is the most important lesson The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde teaches the readers?

Answer 1

Answer:

Wilde wrote: “And the moral is this: All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment. The painter, Basil Hallward, worshipping physical beauty far too much, as most painters do, dies by the hand of one in whose soul he has created a monstrous and absurd vanity