About author:-
Oscar Fungal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. He was born on 16th October 1854 in Ireland and died on 30th November 1900 in France at the age of 46. He was known for his acclaimed works including "The picture of Dorian gray" and "the importance of being earnest", as well as his brilliant wit, flamboyant style and infamous imprisonment for homosexuality.
About the story:-
'The Nightingale and the Rose' is a fairytale by Oscar Wilde included in his 1888 collection, 'The happy Prince and other tales'. It is about romantic love. The story contains two aspects of love, one is pure love, which is described by the bird Nightingale who supports lover and another is conditional and materialistic love, which is described by the daughter of professor who tells the student to get red for her if he wants to dance with her at the Prince's ball. At the end of the story we can examine that the sacrifice of nightingale becomes vain when she refuses to dance with him because someone has given her jewelry.
Critical analysis:-
The story Nightingale and the rose is about the romantic love. It is about the student who is in love with professor's daughter. While sitting in the branches of the Oak-tree, the Nightingale overhears the Student lamenting the fact that his sweetheart will not dance with him unless he brings her a red rose. The story is about conditional love which we can see in very first line of the story, by the statement of the student,
"She said that she would dance with me if I brought her Red roses."
The Prince is giving the ball the following night but although, the student loves her a lot, both will be there, but as per the condition she will not dance with him without a red rose. To fulfill her wish, he goes to his garden but he later come to know that his garden doesn't have any roses. The Nightingale knows the real meaning of love after watching the grief of the student and how rare true love is. Impressed by the apparent depth of the Student's emotion, she decides to help him secure the girl's affections.
The Nightingale first flies to a White Rose-tree standing in the center of a plot of grass and asks him for a red rose. He tells her that all his roses are white, but advises her to find his brother, the Yellow Rose-tree standing next to a sun-dial. The Nightingale flies to him and is again disappointed. The Yellow Rose-tree in turn suggests that she visit his brother underneath the Student's window. This Rose-tree replied that it had red roses but because of winter, it is frozen, its branches has broken by the storms. So it hadn't any roses over tree. Disparate Nightingale asks if there is a way to produce a single red rose. The suggestion is given by the tree to built Red Rose out of music by moonlight and stain it with the nightingale's heart's blood.
The Nightingale presents the philosophy of life and love and decides to sacrifice her life for love. By the moonlight she stands infront of throne and starts to sing the song. Her song is first about the birth of love, then the birth of passion in the soul of man and a maid, then love which is perfected by death and at last only burst of music. Finally the red rose is completed and the Nightingale dies. At noon student sees this wonderful red rose and ran up to professor's house with the red rose in hid hand and gives it to his beloved.
But now the conclusion came with the disappointment of student by the reply of her that another suitor, the Chamberlain’s nephew, has sent her jewels, which are more valuable than flowers, so she says she will dance with him instead at the ball that night. He throws the red rose into the gutter, where a cart rolls over it. As he walks home, he decides to reject Love in favour of Logic and Philosophy, which have a more practical use.
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