This Week's Dorian Gray Chapters Were Boring

 Marriage: sounds great but reality makes it way more complex than it has to be. I mean, why can’t we just be friends with benefits? In Dorian Gray, that’s basically what every single relationship is. Like Faust drawn to the devil, Dorian(the epitome of “I’m not gay, watch me marry this girl”  isn’t actually interested in a meaningful relationship. After engaging himself to a girl, and then realizing he doesn’t love her and leading her into suicide, life just goes back to normal for Dorian. Same with Lord Henry, as he has a wife who doesn’t even know his personality. Everyone in the book just wants to borrow some friction from a stranger and move on with their lives. Thank god times have changed, and that our shallow, pleasure-driven nature has been eliminated. 

On a more pressing(or not so pressing) matter, this brings up doubts on marriage and relationships in the 21st century. While your English teacher may tell you about the decay of modern mankind and how life used to be better when they were a child, let me remind you that your teacher had their own English teacher who would say the same exact thing. Ultimately, marriage has always been a sort of manmade construct that most people find ways to get around. Just like how two animals being married sounds absurd, it would be wise to look over the “union of two people” as a word other than marriage. I may sound uneducated, but that is because I am.