Sibyl Vane and the Failure of Love

From The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Sibyl, the young actress Dorian loves and abandons, represents authentic feeling crushed by Dorian's aestheticism and cruelty.
Chapter 4

Dorian rapturously describes Sibyl: 'I love her, and I must make her love me.'

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Chapter 7

After her bad performance, Dorian rejects Sibyl cruelly: 'You have killed my love.' Her suicide follows.

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Chapter 8

Dorian learns of Sibyl's death and, prompted by Lord Henry, treats it as a beautiful tragic spectacle rather than a moral catastrophe.

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