I recognize a connection between Shakespeare’s sonnet 20 and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The works were written over four hundred years far from each other, but the concept of beauty and time are present in both. This suggests that time and beauty are recurring themes of literature. In Shakespeare the young man with female appearrance stands for the beauty and the fair youth express the time. In Oscar Wilde Dorian Gray stands for beauty and the time is expressed by the desire of beeing forever young. Another common theme is the double: in Shakespeare’s work by the ambiguity between male and female; in the second one by the presence of good (Dorian) and evil (Dorian’s picture). A theme they have both is also the ambiguity of the sexes, because the male’s beauty is powerful when it’s like female’s one.