1.1. The background of research
Oscar Wilde lived in Victorian era of the 19th Century, when the industrial revolution was going on in the Britain. The society in that time has undergone unprecedented change. Most people were greedy and mercenary. At the same time, the capitalist system was established in Western Europe. The capitalist system plays a big role in human mind. People's world view and values have changed a lot The responsible Oscar Wilde is extremely dissatisfied with the hypocritical and despicable society, so he wrote the fairy tale "the Nightingale and the rose" in that context to expose the naked money relations between people in Britain and the in the ugliness that resulted by capitalist system. He also wanted to against …show more content…
The nightingale sacrifice it’s life to get the red rose, the nightingale is the embodiment of Wilde’s aesthetic thought. “The nightingale pursuits love, just like Wilde pursuits the beauty and art, the nightingale whose inflexible spirits for love ,just like Wilde’s spirits embodiment for the supreme beauty, but the death of nightingale symbolizes, like Wilde pursuits art will never change until death.”（赵永斌，2009）Furthermore，the other animal in story, like the butterfly, daisy, and lizard they can not understand the nightingale’s behavior, they make fun of it. They represent some who criticize and suspect Wilde’s aestheticism, represent those who can not cherish love and they are always cynically. Wilde expresses the color beauty through description of many images. The goodhearted nightingale willing to get a red rose blooming in winter by sacrifice life in order to help the young student fulfills the true love. However, she sees the disillusion of …show more content…
Finally, by of the young student’s window’s side, he finally find red rose and this is what he has longed for in his dream . "The red rose as red as the feet of the dove”. ( Wilde, 1996), Wilde's metaphor is novel and unique. Then Wilde shows a wonderful and colorful underwater world for us with bright coral, “Redder than the great fans of coral that wave and wave in the ocean-cavern.”(Wilde, 2012). The red coral like a red fan, waving in the deep ocean, so intoxicating, so elegant, so refined, and especial. This is the red rose that the nightingale exchanges her life. Wilde depicts the aestheticism that he believes using the bright colors. Only the Red rose that redder than coral can match his pursuit of the artistic
Oscar Wilde lived in Victorian era of the 19th Century, when the industrial revolution was going on in the Britain. The society in that time has undergone unprecedented change. Most people were greedy and mercenary. At the same time, the capitalist system was established in Western Europe. The capitalist system plays a big role in human mind. People's world view and values have changed a lot The responsible Oscar Wilde is extremely dissatisfied with the hypocritical and despicable society, so he wrote the fairy tale "the Nightingale and the rose" in that context to expose the naked money relations between people in Britain and the in the ugliness that resulted by capitalist system. He also wanted to against …show more content…
The nightingale sacrifice it’s life to get the red rose, the nightingale is the embodiment of Wilde’s aesthetic thought. “The nightingale pursuits love, just like Wilde pursuits the beauty and art, the nightingale whose inflexible spirits for love ,just like Wilde’s spirits embodiment for the supreme beauty, but the death of nightingale symbolizes, like Wilde pursuits art will never change until death.”（赵永斌，2009）Furthermore，the other animal in story, like the butterfly, daisy, and lizard they can not understand the nightingale’s behavior, they make fun of it. They represent some who criticize and suspect Wilde’s aestheticism, represent those who can not cherish love and they are always cynically. Wilde expresses the color beauty through description of many images. The goodhearted nightingale willing to get a red rose blooming in winter by sacrifice life in order to help the young student fulfills the true love. However, she sees the disillusion of …show more content…
Finally, by of the young student’s window’s side, he finally find red rose and this is what he has longed for in his dream . "The red rose as red as the feet of the dove”. ( Wilde, 1996), Wilde's metaphor is novel and unique. Then Wilde shows a wonderful and colorful underwater world for us with bright coral, “Redder than the great fans of coral that wave and wave in the ocean-cavern.”(Wilde, 2012). The red coral like a red fan, waving in the deep ocean, so intoxicating, so elegant, so refined, and especial. This is the red rose that the nightingale exchanges her life. Wilde depicts the aestheticism that he believes using the bright colors. Only the Red rose that redder than coral can match his pursuit of the artistic