Morality is when one is immoral. Beauty is the greatest mistress of seduction. For Lord Arthur Savile, it is a motive for murder. Due to his aesthetic reasons for killing in the name of beauty, one might think that Lord Arthur is a dandy of Victorian society. However, through his bourgeois sense of duty, Arthur casts himself and his crime in a paradoxical light. He had tried his best to commit this murder, yet both times he failed, and not through his own fault. He had attempted to do his duty, but it seemed as if fate itself had turned against him. He was burdened by the feeling of the fruitlessness of good intentions, the futility of trying to be good. Through a satirical blend of moral reversal and purely aesthetic motivation for murder, Oscar Wilde's narrative "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" invites...