The is the final part of the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.

In the first sequence the writer represent the inner side of the character. His conscience is evil because he killed the painter who painted his portrait. The picture stands for his conscience, very important topic in the passage. In this way Oscar Wilde anticipated the centrality of conscience in modernist literature. Another interesting topic is coexistence of the past and the present, that will one of the most important characteristics of modernist literature, simultaneous concept of time. So in order to get free from his past the character takes the knife and stabs the picture.

The function of the second sequence is to present the event form the other points of view. So the novelist describes the actions of the servants and of two gentlemen. There is chromatic contrast between the dark and the light. The dark present evil, and the light innocence. The house is great and old, great in moral sense and old because it represent Dorian's past, his faults.

The last scene represents the scene when the servants enter the room and see the the portrait and the dead man. The man in the portrait was young and handsome while the dead man was old, thin, weak and only at the end they understood that it was Dorian. The dead of Dorian may represent the fail of his philosophy, because the art,as said in the preface has not to be moral or immoral while his portrait persecuted him.