“You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?” (Wilde). From luxury cars, exquisite furniture, beautiful pieces of art hanging on the walls, designer jewelry, high fashion clothing, and maybe even golden toilets, many of the wealthy members of society today seem to always make their most bold attempt to showcase not just how rich they are, but how rich they can make people think they are. Taking to social outlets, certain social celebrities even post videos and pictures simply to flaunt their glamorous lifestyle. These ideas of grandeur, flamboyance, and elegance all fall under the umbrella of opulence, which can simply be defined as having great wealth and living in great luxury. In Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray , Wilde uses this idea of opulence to demonstrate the excesses of a Hedonistic lifestyle. Throughout history, philosophers and various societies have all hel