In-Depth Character Analysis

My character, Dorian Gray, from the book The Picture of Dorian Gray. I am going to analyse my character and base my design on my analysis.

Dorian is a very rich young man who gets exactly what he wants going through the book, he inherited an estate and a lot of money, this is why he moved to London.
He didn't know nay one apart from the painter at first and from then on he met with a lot of new people. He was very wealthy and very handsome, effortlessly handsome that every woman and even men were talking about him. Throughout the book he gets what he wants and he makes enemies our of it, the more people got to know him and the more the portrait started to change the more people started to dislike what he had become.
In the end he knew that his life wasn't the same any more, everyone knew he wasn't ageing and that wanted to know his "secret". A lover who was in his life at the start of the book who killed her self destroyed him at that point and then her brother returned to kill Dorian and put him to rest like he thought Dorian did to his sister. Since that point Dorian knew his life was at threat and he did what he could to avoid that. Being so scared he was looking over his shoulder thinking his life was over, yet he wasn't happy with his life any way, one day at shooting some one accidentley killed the man.
Now his life was no longer at threat he still knew this portrait is destroying him still - he went up to the room where it was covered and locked away and stabbed the painting resulting in him killing himself too.
He was very happy with his life, knowing how much of an influence he had on women and men, getting what he wanted, invited to posh partied and dinner parties at some of the best places in London. He was very high in social status and was really enjoying himself. Once he was at the highest he could he learnt things about people and blackmailed them, everyone left the room and didn't want to be near him.
Even though he was very high in social society he still wasn't happy with his life , the portrait was in the back of his mind slowly ruining him and he did what ever he could to forget about it but in the end turned evil towards everyone else.

There are a few films and TV programmes which have the same plot as Dorian Gray too -

Dexter 
Dexter is a TV series where the main character Dexter is a blood splatter analysis but he hides a huge
secret - he is also a cereal killer! He loves his life he does what he wants when he wants, he works, he kills and he loves women too. He has the huge secret and during the series' there are moments where he nearly gets caught and his life would be over but he manages to solve the problems. At the end of all the series, his little boys mother dies, so he leaves and puts himself out of danger and out of anyone's way so he doesn't ruin any more lives like he feels he has done. He send his lover and his little boy to France to live the rest of their lives in peace without him.
This links to Dorian because they both were so happy with their life, they did what they wanted and got away with it too. They both had things that they wanted to forget and they both did things they shouldn't which slowly ate them away. In the end both characters put them self out of danger and leave their lives behind them with the people who care about them.

The Wolfman 

This film is based on a man who ends up getting bitten by a wolf, he turns into a wolf and tries his hardest to hide it from everyone even the woman who he has fell in love with. Eventually it comes out and the whole town want him dead, he suffers in the process trying to remove the wolf from out of him. When the whole town put in him a chair to die he release's the wolf and goes out on a rampage. Everyone sees him as this figure who he doesn't want to be and he doesn't know how to stop it. I personally haven't seen the whole film but I can see from the trailer and the things I've read that it has the same story line as Dorian, keeping a big secret about yourself that one day will come out.

Fifty Shades of Grey 

Christian Grey is a character that has influenced people who have normal lives to spice it up a little bit. In the books and the film he has this secret that he a dominant, he wants people to think that he's this rich man who is self made. He has what he wants, does what he wants and he always gets what he wants. He meets a girl who changes his life forever, he falls in love which he has never had before too. His childhood was difficult as his mother was a drug addict and so he was adopted into a rich family, he doesn't know how to love and this girl does what he wants but he also changes for her too. He opens up and his personality comes out and the story is a true love story. I personally love the books and I feel him and Dorian so have a lot in common, there both rich, handsome, a big socialite and in the end the truth comes out for better or worse.