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    The nightingale is portrayed in Oscar Wilde's story "The Nightingale and the Rose" in two ways: 1) As innocent and enthusiastic, helping a student obtain a red rose to give his lover by sacrificing herself to turn the rose red with her blood. 2) As a fool for devoting her life to creating the rose for an undeserving student, who ends up rejecting his lover and throwing away the rose, making the nightingale's death in vain. The nightingale represents both true love and artists who sacrifice everything for their art.

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    The nightingale is portrayed in Oscar Wilde's story "The Nightingale and the Rose" in two ways: 1) As innocent and enthusiastic, helping a student obtain a red rose to give his lover by sacrificing herself to turn the rose red with her blood. 2) As a fool for devoting her life to creating the rose for an undeserving student, who ends up rejecting his lover and throwing away the rose, making the nightingale's death in vain. The nightingale represents both true love and artists who sacrifice everything for their art.

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    The nightingale is portrayed in Oscar Wilde's story "The Nightingale and the Rose" in two ways: 1) As innocent and enthusiastic, helping a student obtain a red rose to give his lover by sacrificing herself to turn the rose red with her blood. 2) As a fool for devoting her life to creating the rose for an undeserving student, who ends up rejecting his lover and throwing away the rose, making the nightingale's death in vain. The nightingale represents both true love and artists who sacrifice everything for their art.

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    In the story “The nightingale and the rose” by Oscar Wilde, the nightingale is

    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.

    In conclusion, the nightingale is portrayed as both innocent and foolish for


    misplacing his faith in the undeserving, symbolizing true love as well as expressing
    profoundly his theory “Art for art’s sake”.

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