The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde

 Oscar Wilde 




Oscar Wilde - Biographical Facts  


Oscar Wilde is a famous writer of the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and the short story The Canterville Ghost. His birth name is Oscar Fingal O’Flaherty Wills Wilde, he born in Dublin, Ireland on 16 October, 1854. He studied in Trinity and Magdalen colleges.


Short Story The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde



Analysis

The Nightingale and the Rose is a really short story written by Oscar Wilde. As the title reflects, it talks a nightingale bird, a rose, and a young Student. It is about the student's sadness due to he has not a red rose to convince at the girl he loves to go to the school dance with him. The nightingale bird, who feels something for the student, makes till the most impossible things to get the red rose for him, but he without knows it takes the rose and give it to the girl. However, she does not want anything with the rose neither him. Then, he stops to belief in the love and continues with his study life. This short story is narrated in third person omniscient because the narrator tells the story without doing participation, for example the story narrows this: “From her nest in the holm-oak tree the Nightingale heard him, and she looked out through the leaves, and wondered.” (Wilde,1888). On the other hand, I think the rose is a symbol because it represents as well as the love from student as the love from the bird (two types of love). Besides, I consider the main theme of this story is about love and the things we are capable to do for it. For example, the student says he wants to go with girl to the dance, and he reflects that he loves her so he needs give her the rose, but he only cries like baby when discovers there is not the red rose. He does nothing for get it. In contrast, the bird flies for different places, offers sings in return of the rose, and at the end he even dies to get the red rose to give it to the boy. The theme also refers at other things. If the sacrifices really being worthwhile in the love since although both characters give the rose to whom they loved, neither the girl nor the student take importance about it. Furthermore, If the love is the most important in life since the reading says “Yet Love is better than Life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man?” (Wilde,1888) it reflects there are people who belief that the love is most important even more than their themselves lives. People who make sacrifices because they consider themselves like less worth.

 

Works cited

Wilde, Oscar. “The Nightingale and the Rose.” Web Blog post. Short Stories Authors. American Literature, 15 Wednesday, October 2019. https://americanliterature.com/author/oscar-wilde/short-story/the-nightingale-and-the-rose. Accessed 17 November 2020.

Tobin, Gregory. “Oscar Wilde Biography.” Oscar Wilde Online,28 April 2019, https://www.wilde-online.info/oscar-wilde-biography.htm. Accessed 17 November 2020.

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