The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines beauty as "the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit." Beauty is a powerful aspect of life, it can draw attention but at the same time hide things that do not want to be revealed. Trying to look beautiful and remain beautiful is usually something that is high on a person's priority list, but what happens when a man prizes his beauty too highly and uses it to do no good in life? Beauty can be used in a variety of different ways to affect one's status in culture, politics, and society. As seen in The Picture of Dorian Gray, our main character, Dorian, prizes his beauty above everything else and we see the effects of that. Beauty affects a wide variety of things throughout the world, much...