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The Nightingale
The Nightingale
mentioned throughout his work, and under the author’s brilliant pen, it is possible
to witness the nightingale being considered either a naive person or an idiot for
love.
The nightingale definitely is innocent and full of enthusiasm when she helps the
student solve his problem. While the student burst into tears because he could not
find the red rose toward inviting his lover to dance with him, the nightingale
carefully listened to the student and was wholeheartedly dragged into it, even
though it was not her problem: “Here at…lover”. She completely understood what
love was: “Love is…gold” and unless the red rose, the student’s heart would break.
Therefore, she makes many attempts to assist him by all means. She even knew
that “death… rose. For now, “the heart…man”, which expressed the nobble in the
way Oscar thought. Furthermore, the nightingale also had all qualities that the
student lacked: patience, strong will, great sense of generosity. It proved that she
was pure, innocent in her attitude towards human society.
On the other hand, the nightingale is a fool when devote her life to an undeserving
person. The process of creating the red rose was challenging: “If you…mine” then
she did everything as the tree said until she pressed closer and gave one last burst
of music, the rose was crimsoned by her heart blood. It is much easier to
understand that the red rose is a symbol of artist work of great value and the
nightingale is artists, Oscar Wilde in specific, who willingly sacrificed their life for
the beauty and perfection of art, which tightens his theory “Art for art’s sake”. The
girl still rejected him even though he had the red rose. After that, “He threw…it”.
The student did not appreciate the red rose, and the nightingale's death was in vain
since he threw away the rose.