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- Aristocrat - rank without responsibility.
- Regards the lower classes as disposable.
- His contempt for private philanthropy is a form of social Darwinism
- Cultured and intellectual.
- Spreads his own brand of highly intelligent, paradoxical philosophies about art and life: “Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul”
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- Uses the power of words to dominate Dorian.
- Plays Evil Angel to Dorian's Faust.
- Powerful and poisionous influence on Dorian: “I am changed, and the mere touch of Sybil Vane’s hand makes me forget you and all your wrong, fascinating, poisonous, delightful theories.”
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