The Portrait of Dorian Gray- Inner Beauty to External Beauty

Inner Beauty to External Beauty Beauty never lasts forever, but if there is inner beauty, it will shine through the skin and penetrate to the surface. If the inner beauty is corrupted, the beauty on the outside will corrupt as well. The perfect examples: Dorian Gray and Narcissus, two men destroyed by their own beauty. Dorian is a wealthy young socialite that is corrupted when he discovers he will never grow old and only his …

…all; one committed crime one day after another and the other could only stare at his own reflection day after day. Sadly both of them died without understanding that their own selfish desires and wishful thinking led to their own destruction. In life, it doesn’t matter whether the person is beautiful or not because as long as they are not corrupted with evil thoughts and desires, inner beauty prevails external beauty no matter what.