Morality, defined as “beliefs about what is right behavior and what is wrong behavior” (“Morality”) is the substructure of our integrity and the pillar of virtuosity. The opposite of this, immorality, is the corruption of one's being, becoming more evil in nature. With morality, a person is held to a certain set of standards and behaviors, but if this morality were to become corrupted, a person's moral boundaries would crumble, leaving them vulnerable to misguided influences and allowing a certain barbaric freedom to eradicate integrity. and the virtuosity that a moral person upholds. Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray features a charming and graceful young Englishman named Dorian Gray, who abandons his purity for a hateful and decadent lifestyle. Similarly, Stanley, one of the main characters in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee William, portrays himself as a virile oppressor who tolerates no authority other than his own. From two extremely different worlds emerge two deceitful men with the same corrupt and immoral humanity-like character; 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 portentous behaviors 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 Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dorian Gray's true nature is revealed through a graceful portrait that a man named Basil Hallward paints. This painting recalls the beauty and purity of Dorian. “When he saw it, he drew......half of the paper......11. Network. February 21, 2014.Nuttall, AD “Ethics, Evil and Fiction.” The Review of English Studies 49,196 (1998): 530+. Literary Resource Center. Network. March 12, 2014. Profit, Vera B. “The Boundaries of the Soul: The Failure to Recognize the Separation of Others as a Sign of Evil in Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray.” Psyart (2011): 16. Academic research completed. Network. 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. Network. April 14, 2014.Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Michael Patrick Gillespie, editor. Norton Critical Edition. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2007. Williams, Tennessee. "A Streetcar Named Desire" Norton Introduction to Literature.Ed. Allison Boothe and Kelly Mays. New York: W. W. Norton, 2010. 1804-1867. Press