Paper Title
The Picture of Dorian Gray for Woman Rights

Abstract
This paper presents the issue of one of the Oscar wilder’s writings “The Picture of Dorian Gray” a novel with an interesting subject of a man who was captured of the imagination of Basil Hallward a painter. In the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, the role of women that represents another central point in the way that action of the novel takes place, in which they were considered inferior from men’s point of view. The weakness of women can be found in various forms throughout the text, as one can evidently realize when Lord Henry argues that: “My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.” (Wilde 47) Subsequently, Dorian’s concern arise to himself and develops into a selfish person to a point he kills Sybil, even though she speaks of Dorian to her family like he is her savior with whom she has fallen madly in love. This can be seen further in the story when Lord Henry tells Dorian that her death was simply a theatrical tragedy. Index Terms— Dorian Gray, Picture, woman rights.