Corruption caused by art, scandalous homoerotic bonds, and even the Anti-Christ himself have been said to be figured in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. Critics have ranted and raved about the novel's supposed advocacy of seeking out the sensual and often taboo pleasures of life and denying the senses of nothing. They've praised and condemned Wilde's ambiguous representation of the homosexual triad formed by the three central characters, Dorian Gray, Basil Hallward, and …showed first 75 words of 1698 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1698 total…Karl Beckson. Daily Chronicle 1890: 72-73. Spivey, Ted R. "Oscar Wilde and its True Symbolism." The Journey Beyond the Study of Myth and Modern Fiction. University Presses of Florida, 1980, pp 49-58. Summers, Claude J. "'In Such Surrender There May Be Gain': Oscar Wilde and the Beginnings of Gay Fiction." Gay Fictions: Wilde to Stonewall, Studies in a Male Homosexual Literary Tradition. Continuum, 1990, pp 29-61. Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1999.