Oscar Wilde

The Nightingale And The Rose

"Yet Love is better than Life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man?”

I don not agree with you little nightingale, for your heart is pure and can never be compered with a man's and mine is aching for you.

This was a beautiful short story about the nature of true love and selfishness shown by a fragile little bird who valued this feeling more than the creatures who're supposed to be the most intelligent on this planet.

Amina Madadi (ⴰⵎⵉⵏⴰ)

"Yet Love is better than Life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man?”

I don not agree with you little nightingale, for your heart is pure and can never be compered with a man's and mine is aching for you.
This was a beautiful short story about the nature of true love and selfishness shown by a fragile little bird who valued this feeling more than the creatures who're supposed to be the most intelligent on this planet.

Hadeer Tarek 

“Death is a great price to pay for a red rose,"

Maria Elkoro-Iribe

Júlia Roppa

** spoiler alert **
           Oscar Wilde nos faz passar por uma série de emoções nesse simples conto, incluindo uma tristeza profunda ao descobrir que o sacrifício da rouxinol foi em vão. 
Pela minha interpretação, Wilde quer mostrar como o amor dos humanos muitas vezes pode ser decepcionante e raso (não sendo, portanto, um amor verdadeiro). Essa visão do amor faz muito sentido ao pensarmos no quanto Bosie (Lord Alfred Douglas) o decepcionou... e, como todo bom Romântico, Wilde coloca o Amor verdadeiro na Natureza, aqui representada pela Rouxinol. 
Até a mesmo a morte da Rouxinol é sentida apenas por outros elementos da natureza, como a árvore que abrigava seu ninho. O Estudante, entretanto, embora ouça o canto da Rouxinol, não se compadece e nem ao menos compreende o que ela fala: mais uma herança Romântica. Isto é, temos o homem (Estudante) completamente alheio à natureza, preso em seu mundo racional, que frequentemente é uma crítica encontrada nos autores Românticos ao se referirem às ideias iluministas.

The Nightingale and the Rose - Oscar Wilde - A nightingale overhears a student complaining that his professor's daughter will not dance with him, as he is unable to give her a red rose. The nightingale visits all the rose-trees in the garden, and one of the white roses tell her that there's a way to produce a red rose, but only if the nightingale is prepared to sing the sweetest song for the rose all night, and sacrifice her life to do so. Seeing the student in tears, the nightingale carries out the ritual, and impales herself on the rose-tree's thorn so that her heart's blood can stain the rose. The student takes the rose to the professor's daughter, but she again rejects him because another man has sent her some real jewels, and "everybody knows that jewels cost far more than flowers." The student angrily throws the rose into the gutter, returns to his study of metaphysics, and decides not to believe in true love anymore.

The Nightingale And The Rose

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