Dorian Gray found Sibyl charming because of her Art! "She has not merely art, consummate art-instinct in her, but she has personality also; and you have often told me that it is personalities, not principles, that move the age" (63). Sibyl is an actress. She is formed by others: no self is without external influence. Therefore, Art that expresses the self is less valuable than art which expresses the influence of others. The special thing that made Dorian mad about her is that she is more than an individual. "I (Dorian) have seen her in every age and in every costume. Ordinary women never appeal to one's imagination. No glamour ever transfigures them" (59). By imagination that Sibyl has the power to arouse, she can be of any characteristics.

Art has no set form, but the purpose of art is to give form to feeling. Now, Sibyl is a person that is able to provide all kinds of feelings that Dorian wishes to experience. Dorian finds extreme pleasure in expe

Dorian Gray founded Sibyl as a beautiful creature, but he put nothing of his own life into her. The one who Sibyl fell in love to, is "Prince Charming." It is only the life of Sibyl that is heard of from their "love affair". Dorian never really participated, he was only a spectator. After Sybil lives in the real world, Prince Charming is killed in the world of imagination. "Art for art's sake," after Art is vanished, the relationship is over.

Art is something that arouse imaginations, imaginations of the viewer. In order for imagination to live, reality must not exist. "She regarded me merely as a person in a play. She knows nothing of life" (61). Art is not "real", or, rather, it forms its own type of reality, its own world. "Kbefore I knew you (Dorian), acting was the one reality of my life. It was only in the theatre that I lived. I thought that it was all true" (95). Before Sibyl fell in love with Dorian, she lives in a world or Art, a world of imaginations. That great pureness of Art is so powerful that she can spiritualize her audiences, and give them a soul if they lived without one, create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid and ugly. Art has the power to bring people into a place where they have not been, or a place that they don't have the opportunity

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