高中英语选修课：英语文学欣赏-The-Nightingal-and-The-Rose夜莺与玫瑰-教学

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Nightingale --- a truthful, devoted pursuer of love, who dares to sacrifice his own precious life
Do you think the Student is a true lover?
No. he is not a true lover, because he is ignorant of love, not persistent in pursuing love.
The Happy Prince and Other Tales 1888 《快乐王子和其他故事》 A House of Pomegranates 《石榴屋/石榴之家》 1891
A collection of short stories: Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories 《亚瑟·萨维尔勋爵的罪行和其他 故事》
Aestheticism (唯美主义) was a cultural phenomenon, which began to prevail in Europe at the middle of the 19th century, when the theory of “art for art’s sake” was first put forward, declaring that art should serve no religious, moral or social purpose, nor any purpose except itself. Actually it was a kind of escapism in essence. “Art for art’s sake” is only the hopeless answer of the artist to the slogan “art for money’s sake”--- hopeless because ivory never was a good material for fortifications(要塞). Thus, aestheticism was regarded fin-de-siele sentiment(世纪末的感伤)
An Ideal Husband 《理想的丈夫》 1895 The Importance of Being Earnest 《认真的重要性》 Salome 《莎乐美》 (written originally in French and
published in English)
1895
In May 1895, when Wilde rose to the summit of his fame, he was sentenced to two years’ hard labor on a charge of immoral conduct. After release, he went to France, for he was totally disappointed at the society of the Victorian England. And then died suddenly in 1900.
Red rose --- true love, which needs constant nourishment of passions of the lovers. It can be divided into three stages: love in the heart of a boy and a girl; love in the soul of a man and a maid; and love that is perfected by Death, that does not die in the tomb.
高中英语选修课：英语文学欣赏-TheNightingal-and-The-Rose夜莺与玫瑰-教学课
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Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)
Born in Dublin, Oscar Wilde is an Irish poet, dramatist, novelist and essayist, was educated at Oxford, where he was greatly influenced by his teacher Walter Pater. Both of them are considered the most important representatives of aestheticists(唯美主义者) in English literature.
In some of his fairy tales like The Devoted Friend, The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and The Rose and The Selfish Giant,
written in a graceful style, he expressed his sympathy with the sufferings of the poor and contempt for the greed and selfishness of the rich.
His only novel: The Picture of Dorian Gray 1891 《道林·格雷的画像》 His main dramas: Lady Windermere’s Fan 1893 《温德密尔夫人的扇子》
A Woman of No Importance 1894 《无足轻重的女人》
Symbolic meanings of “Red rose”, “Lizard” and “Nightingale”:
Lizard --- cynic, a person who sees little or no good in anything and who has no belief in human progress; person who shows this by sneering and being contemptuous (cynical people)
Appreciation Time!
—— The Nightingale and The Rose
Symbolic meanings of “Red rose”, “Lizard” and “Nightingale”:
Symbolic meanings of “Red rose”, “Lizard” and “Nightingale”:
Wilde’s comments: (1888)
The nightingale is the true lover, if there is one. She, at least, is
Rห้องสมุดไป่ตู้mance, and the student and the
girl are, like most of us, unworthy of Romance. Nightingale sacrifices its own life for pure love’s sake. A true love needs wholehearted devotion and passion
Oscar Wilde’s literary output shows the versatility of his inventive powers as well as the complexity of his social and artistic ideas.
From the eighties to the nineties, Wilde wrote and published all his major works, which include two collections of fairy stories: