Dorian has accepted that his soul is full of sin. When he shows Basil his true form, the one with sin written all over his face, he believes he has no hope of being good. He reveals the truth to Basil because the guilt of seeing Basil praising him despite the rumors about him is too much to bear. Basil is shocked to see the crude and wrinkled effigy of Dorian and implores that they ask God for forgiveness. He thinks there is still a chance and that Dorian just needs to repent of his sins. Dorian says skeptically: “It is too late, Basil” (Wilde, 140). He believes that his turpitude is immutable. Because he lacks the will to live a moral life, he feels good about killing Basil and blackmailing his friends to clean up the mess. When Alan Campbell is invited to Dorian's house, he describes the situation in the pharmacy upstairs. The corpse is just a thing placed on a chair and resting its head on a table. If he had seen himself as someone who lives a moral life, he would not have invited Alan and would have gone instead. Because he has already understood that he will live a corrupt life forever, he is not afraid to force a friend who has repeatedly flatly refused to clean up the dirty work to hide his sins. The difference in attitude before and after his encounter with the mocking portrait is the belief in redemption.______________________________________________________________________________ Inside the book is the psychological study of a Parisian who sets himself the goal of living in the most hedonistic way possible and to undergo “all the passions and all the passions”. modes of thought which belonged to every century except his own” ([2] Wilde 109). The book is captivatingly written, with “metaphors as monstrous as orchids and as subtle in color” ([2] Wilde 109). Wilde writes about the book as he would write about the experience of entering a drug-induced stupor, with all the colors and hallucinations that accompany it. In a way, the content is almost spiritual, so that "at times one hardly knew whether one was reading the spiritual ecstasies of a medieval saint or the morbid confessions of a modern sinner" ([2] Wilde 109). it’s the fascination, then the connection. It becomes a drug-like substance for him, and “Dorian Gray [cannot] free himself from the influence of this book” ([2] Wilde 111).