Michael Jackson – Billie Jean – 4:54 (1049 kbps, 36.81 MB).And in memory of that man, we deal kindly with the poor, ruined face of the Man in the Mirror.įor more on the Michael Jackson tragedy from “Rivkah Writes…” see Thrill Seeker.Michael_Jackson-King_Of_Pop_Australian_50th_Anniversary_Edition-(88697356252)-LIMITED_EDITION-2CD-FLAC-2008-WREįLAC (tracks) 16 bit/ 44,1kHz | Time – 02:32:46 minutes | 1.07 GB | Genre: Pop In our minds and in our hearts, he is the joyous, good humored, beautiful young man we remember him to be. And, as Dorian Gray’s death restored his portrait to its innocent perfection, Michael’s demise has restored his reputation. The adopted eccentricities – masks, veils, etc – served only to emphasize this irrevocable transformation.įorced to bear his physical and moral disfigurements in life, in death, Michael has been given a second chance. Ultimately Michael’s dead eyes, waxy-pallor, and frozen features became a parody of the dancing eyed, adorable dimpled, enormously talented man we knew. In the process, though, the whoops of joy became whoops of anger, the handsome male, a handsome anomaly, the fluid movements, an exercise in jerky, twisted virtuosity. The change began innocuously enough – no longer a child sensation, Michael strived for more edge. – from a literary perspective, it seemed the alleged perversions of which he was accused had slowly turned outward, destroying the perfection of the once beautiful, mischievous – but for all that – innocent face. While the causes of Michael’s facial changes are well documented – vitiligo, plastic surgery, drugs, etc. Unlike Dorian Gray, however, Michael had no painted doppelganger to absorb his disfigurements – he had to deal with them in the flesh. And, as the rumors of his behavior grew more insidious, the beautiful face grew increasingly distorted, plasticized, artificial, surreal.
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As the beautiful, irresistibly talented young man soared to the heights of fame, his oddities seemed to grow apace. In many ways, we can use “The Picture of Dorian Gray” to understand the tragedy of Michael Jackson. Yet when his servants hear Dorian cry out, they find the body of a man with a monstrously evil face sprawled beside his portrait – which once again depicts him in all his youthful innocence. Determined to destroy the picture, aka, his guilty conscience, Dorian stabs it.
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When Dorian finally confronts what he has become, he recoils from his beautiful face, knowing full well what it conceals.
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And, each step he takes down the path of degradation incrementally distorts and disfigures his picture, until it becomes a loathsome representation of Dorian’s ruined soul. For Dorian doesn’t just grow older, he also loses his innocence. Dorian’s wish comes true, albeit not quite as he intends. In the beginning of the novel, Dorian Gray, the subject of the portrait, declares he would rather die than grow old and ugly, and makes a wish that the inevitable toll of life be visited on his portrait, rather than himself. In his 19th Century novel, “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” Oscar Wilde created an ingenious metaphor for corruption – a portrait of untarnished innocence slowly perverted by evil.