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.