Malin Pettersson , pp. 21. Inst. för humaniora/Dept. of the Humanities, 2001.
This essay is about Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and The Seven
Deadly Sins. The sins are sloth, greed, gluttony, lust, pride, envy and
anger. This essay is about how the protagonist of the book, Dorian Gray
self-destructs because of them. He committs six of them and inflict two on
other characters in the book, envy and anger. To Dorian sinning is like an
addiction, once he gets started he cannot stop. Eventually because of all
the sinning Dorian kills himself, in other words self-destructs, and it is
due to the seven deadly sins.