![]() However, Isabel ultimately comes to know his true nature. ![]() Osmond is the aesthete who creates an illusion that there is a truth, but this illusion is wholly created from the obfuscation of the lack of the truth. Other people though might say that a work of art is valuable for giving us the illusion of reality: a good work of art tells us something about society as it really is, and the truth of life. Similarly, Isabel Archer, the subject of "The Portrait of a Lady" is valuable because so many other people think she is an original. What makes a particular piece of art valuable? Some of us might say it is the value a community bestows upon that work of art that makes it valuable. ![]() ![]() Often there are moments in the novel when one person looks at another as if he or she were a "portrait." This is representative of the attempt to read another person as one reads a work of art. ![]()
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