Morality, defined as "beliefs about what is good behavior and what is bad behavior", ("Morality" ) is the substructure of our integrity and the column of virtue. The opposite of this, immorality, is the corruption of one's being, becoming more and more wicked in nature. With morals, a person is held to a certain set of standards and behaviors, but if these morals were to become corrupted, a person's moral boundaries would collapse, leaving them vulnerable to deceptive influences and allowing a certain barbaric freedom to uproot integrity. and the virtue that a moral person defends. Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray features a captivating and graceful young Englishman named Dorian Gray, who abandons his purity for a loathsome and decadent lifestyle. Similarly, Stanley, one of the main characters in the film A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee William, presents himself as a virile oppressor who tolerates no authority other than his own. Two deceptive men emerge from two extremely diverse worlds with the same corrupt and immoral character similar to humanity; however, these characters are very different. One character, Dorian, is characterized by his beauty, while the other character, Stanley, is characterized by his authority. It is through prodigious behavior that we can see the true nature of these characters. Both The Picture of Dorian Gray and A Streetcar Named Desire emphasize capitulation to unethical behavior for narcissistic reasons and the inability to distinguish right from wrong. In The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, the true nature of Dorian Gray is revealed through a graceful portrait that a man named Basil Hallward painted. This painting resembles the beauty and purity of Dorian. “When he saw it, he drew himself... in the middle of a paper......11. Internet. February 21, 2014. Nuttall, A.D. “Ethics, Evil and Fiction.” The Review of English Studies 49.196 (1998):530+. Literary Resource Center. Internet. March 12, 2014. Profit, Vera B. “The Limits of the Soul: Failure to Recognize Separation from Others as a Sign of Evil in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.” » Psyart (2011): 16. Academic research completed. Internet. April 14, 2014. Shea, C. Michael. “Fallen Nature and Infinite Desire.” Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 17.1 (2014): 115-139. Academic research completed. Internet. April 14, 2014.Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Michael Patrick Gillespie, editor. NortonCritical Edition. New York: WW Norton & Company, Inc., 2007. Williams, Tennessee. “A Streetcar Named Desire” Norton Introduction to Literature.Ed. Allison Boothe and Kelly Mays. New York: WW Norton, 2010. 1804-1867. Print