The Picture of Dorian Gray
"The native land of the hypocrite " what is this land? And why is it considered as such?
From chapter 12.
From chapter 12.
Dorion and Hallward are discussing the moral middle class. It is the people who claim to be moral that really are not: they are hypocrites. They merely pretend to be moral.
βAnd what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.β