The extract is taken from Chapter XI of The Picture of Dorian Gray. In the text the writer describes Dorian Gray's lifestyle according to aesthetic philosophy. So one of the main purposes of life is to make it as the work of art, to appeals to the senses. Also the language used appeals to senses. In the first sequence the writers wants the reader to experience beauty. There is attention to every detail, decoration, music, the people are selected. Dorian was always supported by Lord Henry, and the invited people saw an example in him because he represented for them he who "makes himself perfect by the worship of beauty".

In the second sequence the writer gives the reader the definition of Dandynism as an attempt to assert the absolute modernity of beauty. So everyone tried to copy him. The life was the greatest of the arts, but he does not wanted to be only arbiter elegantiarum but something more, not to stop on the material aspects but to find the spiritualizing of the senses, so the senses has privileged position. In the next sequence the writer analyzes the importance of the senses that are forgotten by people who try to submiss them.

In the final sequence there are present Lord Henry's ideas about new Hedonism that would save life from puritanism and morality. There will not be any refuse of emotions, but concentration to the senses and lifs.