A vintage painter called Basil paints his portrait and Dorian Gray instantly falls in love with the grandeur of his charisma and youth depicted in the portrait. This meeting changed the whole life of Dorian Gray as we see his immoral instincts devouring the moral scruples he apparently had once. Basil poured his heart and soul into the picture of Dorian Gray and decided not to sell it anyway.
However, Dorian Gray insisted that he wanted his painting to be with him so that he can cherish his beauty earnestly. When he finally got the picture, he wished that his portrait could age in his place while he remains young and beautiful forever. Divinity granted him the wish, however, his picture aged every time he did something evil. Dorian did not age for 18 years but his painting became awry and wrinkled day by day.
At last, Dorian decided to stop erring in the hope that his painting might become beautiful again. However, against his hopes, something very strange happens which leads him to his end.
The picture did become beautiful again but cost Dorian Gray a very heavy price. When The Uninvited is turned away from the ceremony, he returns later in the episode and Dorian is the one who ends up facing the deadly consequences. Dorian kills himself in the picture just to eliminate all the evidences which reminded him his wicked life, hoping this will also make him redeem from his sins. On returning home, Dorian notices that the portrait has changed; his wish has come true, and the man in the portrait bears a subtle sneer of cruelty.
Conscience-stricken and lonely, Dorian decides to reconcile with Sibyl, but he is too late, as Lord Henry informs him that Sibyl has killed herself. He feels like death is coming for him. The grotesque deformities of the picture come into being in Dorian's own body, while painted Dorian is restored to its original image of spotless beauty.
In the end, Dorian gets everything that was coming to him; his choices brought about his own doom. Questions like "Why? What really matters about it is not its fairy-tale-gone-wrong turn of events, but rather the message that it conveys.
The idea here is that nobody can get away with everything; even though Dorian thought that he could dodge earthly punishment and go about his evil business by destroying the portrait the proof of how vile and corrupt he really was , his death actually comes as a kind of divine retribution for all of his crimes.
He lives a life devoted to garnering new experiences and sensations with no regard for conventional standards of morality or the consequences of his actions. Eighteen years pass. His peers nevertheless continue to accept him because he remains young and beautiful. The figure in the painting, however, grows increasingly wizened and hideous. He shows Basil the now-hideous portrait, and Hallward, horrified, begs him to repent. Dorian claims it is too late for penance and kills Basil in a fit of rage.
In order to dispose of the body, Dorian employs the help of an estranged friend, a doctor, whom he blackmails. Dorian escapes to his country estate.
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