Self- Writeousness | The Curse of Youth vs. Dorian Gray @SelfWriteousness | Uploaded July 2022 | Updated October 2024, 7 hours ago.
Enjoy this a happy little jaunt through the horror comedy of Oscar Wilde while I get rapidly uglier in cut-away shots. Yay, visual metaphor :D

00:09 A glancing blow at literary history
01:08 What movie makers tend to miss
01:30 Oscar Wilde is both brilliant and lazy with dialogue because...
02:57 Gay text and subtext
04:14 A Summary / Analysis of The Picture of Dorian Gray's First Act
04:59 Biblical Allusions to Dorian Gray King Solomon (?)
06:02 Body Dysmorphic Disorder or "Martha's weird medical hypothesis"
06:46 Dorian's guilty conscience
07:17 Dorian's grim conclusion
07:37 The real horror is not what Dorian thinks it is
09:00 Host acts strange for about 16 seconds

A link to the Mayo Clinic description of Body Dysmorphic Disorder is below in case you'd like to check that out:

mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/body-dysmorphic-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20353938

...as well as links to a couple free online versions of The Picture of Dorian Gray:
literature.org/authors/wilde-oscar/the-picture-of-dorian-grey

youtube.com/watch?v=R_asD_uF0Cw

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