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- Wilde Oscar
- Nightingale and rose
In the garden, a Nightingale was sitting on a tree by the window, and in the room a young man in love was sad. The guy had to give the girl a red rose, then she would allow him to ask her to dance. But in his garden the rose bush dried up, and in other gardens white and yellow flowers bloomed.
The young man cried and worried that his beloved would dance at the ball with other gentlemen, but not with him. The guy looked like a real lover: pale face and scarlet lips, a trace of sadness on his face.
The nightingale always sang about love, but finally he met a manifestation of real feeling. He was very happy about this and wanted to help the lovers.
The bird flew into a neighboring garden. There was a rose bush growing there. The nightingale asked him for one red rose, but the bush could not fulfill the request. Only white roses bloomed on the bush. The rose bush advised the bird to fly to its brother, who grew up near the old hourglass. Arriving at the Rose Bush, the Nightingale saw yellow roses. The bush sent him under the Student’s window to his brother.
When the bird flew to its native garden, it saw dry branches without flowers. The Nightingale began to beg the Rose Bush to give him one red rose. The bush told the Nightingale about the opportunity to get what he wanted, but it was fatal for the bird.
The Nightingale understood that giving his life for Rose was too high a price. But, Love is more valuable than Life.
The Nightingale sang a song to the Rosebush and stuck a thorn into his heart. Red blood flowed; A red rose was blooming on the bush. When the bird stopped singing, the rose was bright red. The nightingale died, but in the morning the young man found a red rose on a bush. The student was happy.
The young man in love ran to the professor’s daughter to give her a flower. He was sure that the girl would agree to dance with him. But the girl received beautiful precious stones as a gift from the chamberlain's son, and she refused the rose. The professor's daughter said that the rose did not go with her outfit.
The student reproached the girl for ingratitude and threw a rose at her feet. The girl didn't care how the guy felt. Jewelry was the most important thing to her.
The student concluded that Love is stupidity, and went to read books and study.
So, Nightingale’s death was in vain. People did not appreciate his sacrifices and did not put Love first.
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oscar wilde the nightingale and the rose summary
I can’t do any less, the shortest retelling
The beginning of the fairy tale takes us to a bright clearing, where the Student is sad about his unhappy love: after all, the prince is planning a ball for tomorrow, and the girl whom the Student loves does not want to go with him until he brings her a red rose. But the problem is that there are no red roses in the Student’s garden, and without them the girl will not love him. The Nightingale hears all this and becomes imbued with sympathy for the unfortunate lover. “What I only sang about, he experiences in reality; What is joy for me is pain for him. Truly love is a miracle,” thinks the little bird.
The Nightingale is the image of the Artist. His heart is open to Beauty and Feelings, everything beautiful touches him. Life is in full swing around the Student - the Butterfly flutters, the Lizard rustles in the grass, the Daisy smells fragrant, but their hearts are not yet ready to understand Love. “This is funny,” they say, and only Nightingale decides to help the Student. Three times, as is customary in fairy tales, he turns to the rose bushes in search of a beautiful scarlet rose. But the first Bush can only produce a white rose, the second - a yellow one, and the third is frozen over the winter and cannot grow a single bud. The Third Bush says that there is a way to grow a scarlet rose, but it is so terrible that the Bush does not immediately dare to reveal it to the Nightingale. To grow a red rose, the Nightingale must sing all night, pressing his chest against the thorn, his blood will help the Bush grow a bud and color it deep scarlet, but the price will be the life of the bird. Beauty requires sacrifice, a famous proverb comes to mind. Art requires suffering; without experiencing pain through oneself, the Artist will not achieve perfection.
The Nightingale does not doubt his decision: he flies to the Student to tell the good news: he will receive a red rose and the Love of that capricious girl. But the Student, although he read everything “that wise people wrote,” did not understand the Nightingale. “Yes, he is a master of form, you can’t take that away from him. But does he have a feeling? I'm afraid not. In essence, he is like most artists: a lot of virtuosity and not a drop of sincerity. He will never sacrifice himself to another,” says Student. Here the reader experiences strong disappointment for the first time. Is the Student as sincerely in love, is his soul as sensitive as the Nightingale thinks? Pundits and smart thoughts are all that the Student cares about. He goes to his room, looking through his notebook and, it seems, has already forgotten about the unfortunate Love.
Only old Oak became sad when he realized what the Nightingale would do. He asks to sing to him one last time, and when the Moon rises in the sky, the Nightingale flies to the Rose Bush. His last song is so beautiful that everything around freezes, and the Bush screams for the Nightingale to press closer, for the thorn to go deeper into the chest of the trembling bird, so that the bud is saturated with blood. At dawn the Nightingale dies. His last trill gives life to a beautiful flower and awakens the world from sleep.
And the Student, who just yesterday was tormented by unrequited love, sleeps until noon. Opening the window, he sees a beautiful bud, but all that occupies him is the “long Latin name” of the rose.
He picks the flower easily and, without thinking about anything, runs to the professor’s daughter, who yesterday refused to go to the ball with him. And here the reader is waiting for a denouement: the girl is more important than “real stones”, which are “more expensive than flowers”; she will go to the ball with someone else. The upset Student calls the girl ungrateful and throws the rose on the pavement. And so, the masterpiece that costs the Nightingale his life is crushed by a cart wheel. The world will no longer hear his beautiful song, the old Oak will remain alone, the Rose Bush may never bloom such a bud again, and the Student says to himself: “What stupidity this Love is.” He decides that there is nothing practical in Love, that in the age of logic it is better to study Philosophy than Metaphysics. He returns to his room and reads a dusty book.
Summary of Wilde The Nightingale and the Rose
In the garden, a Nightingale was sitting on a tree by the window, and in the room a young man in love was sad.
The guy had to give the girl a red rose, then she would allow him to ask her to dance. But in his garden the rose bush dried up, and in other gardens white and yellow flowers bloomed. The young man cried and worried that his beloved would dance at the ball with other gentlemen, but not with him. The guy looked like a real lover: pale face and scarlet lips, a trace of sadness on his face.
The nightingale always sang about love, but finally he met a manifestation of real feeling. He was very happy about this and wanted to help the lovers.
The bird flew into a neighboring garden. There was a rose bush growing there. The nightingale asked him for one red rose, but the bush could not fulfill the request. Only white roses bloomed on the bush. The rose bush advised the bird to fly to its brother, who grew up near the old hourglass. Arriving at the Rose Bush, the Nightingale saw yellow roses. The bush sent him under the Student’s window to his brother.
When the bird flew to its native garden, it saw dry branches without flowers. The Nightingale began to beg the Rose Bush to give him one red rose. The bush told the Nightingale about the opportunity to get what he wanted, but it was fatal for the bird.
The Nightingale understood that giving his life for Rose was too high a price. But, Love is more valuable than Life.
The Nightingale sang a song to the Rosebush and stuck a thorn into his heart. Red blood flowed; A red rose was blooming on the bush. When the bird stopped singing, the rose was bright red. The nightingale died, but in the morning the young man found a red rose on a bush. The student was happy.
The young man in love ran to the professor’s daughter to give her a flower. He was sure that the girl would agree to dance with him. But the girl received beautiful precious stones as a gift from the chamberlain's son, and she refused the rose. The professor's daughter said that the rose did not go with her outfit.
The student reproached the girl for ingratitude and threw a rose at her feet. The girl didn't care how the guy felt. Jewelry was the most important thing to her.
The student concluded that Love is stupidity, and went to read books and study.
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Oscar Wilde's work "The Nightingale and the Rose" is a philosophical tale about love and its manifestations. The main characters are the student, the Nightingale, and the Rose Bush. From the first lines of the work, the reader learns that the student is hopelessly in love with the professor’s daughter. A ball is expected in the near future and the girl told the Student that she would dance with him if he gave her red roses. The student is upset. There is “not a single red rose” in his garden. Nightingale hears the student’s sorrowful lamentations; he is surprised “on what trifles happiness sometimes depends.” And Nightingale, seeing a “real lover”, decides to help him. He reflects that “love is a miracle. It is more precious than an emerald and more expensive than the most beautiful opal, pearls, and garnets cannot buy it, and it is not put on the market...” At this time, the Student falls face down on the grass and weeps bitterly.
He doesn't know where to find a red rose for the girl. A small Lizard and a Butterfly gather around him, and a Daisy leans towards him. “What is he crying about?” - they ask, and when they find out, they laugh. Only Nightingale understands the Student’s suffering. He spreads his wings and flies to a familiar lawn where a rose bush grows. The nightingale asks him for “one red rose,” but the bush replies that “his roses are white” and advises him to fly to his brother, “who grows near the old sundial.” Without wasting a minute, the Nightingale flies to the indicated place. But this rose bush also refuses the Nightingale’s request. “My roses are yellow,” he answers, and advises us to fly to the Rose Bush that grows under the Student’s window. When the Nightingale finds himself near this Bush, he repeats his request again.
But the Rose Bush shakes his head, saying that “the blood in his veins has frozen from the winter cold, the frost has broken the buds, the storm has broken the branches, and this year there will be no roses at all.” The Nightingale asks bitterly. “Is there a way to get one, just one – a single rose?” What he hears from the Rose Bush is scary. One single rose can grow, but only if the nightingale “stains it with the blood of the heart.” To do this, he must sing songs “pressing his chest to the thorn,” and as soon as the thorn pierces the heart, living blood flows into the veins of the bush, “a red rose will bloom”... The nightingale understands that death is too high a price for a red rose, but in at the same time he thinks that “Love is more expensive than Life, and the heart of some bird is nothing in comparison with the human heart!” The Nightingale flies into the garden and sings a song to the student about Love, about its strength and wisdom, but the Student does not understand a word from the Nightingale’s song.
Only Oak understands the song, and is bitterly saddened by what he hears...Night falls. The Nightingale flies to the Rose Bush and sits on its branch, clinging to the thorn. The longer the Nightingale sings her song, the brighter and larger the rose becomes on the topmost shoot. Pale, it gradually seems to absorb color, and when the thorn pierces the Nightingale’s heart, the rose becomes scarlet, like the morning dawn. But the Nightingale no longer sees this - he lies dead... At noon, the Student opens the window and sees a magnificent red rose. Having picked it, he runs to the professor’s daughter. He confesses his love to the girl and asks her that evening at the ball to “pin the rose closer to her heart.” In response, the girl frowns. She is not at all interested in the Student and tells him that “the chamberlain’s nephew sent real stones, and everyone knows that stones are much more valuable than flowers.”
The student exclaims bitterly. “How ungrateful you are!” Rose falls to the ground and is crushed by a cart wheel. The girl tells him that he is “just a student” and he does not have “such silver buckles for his shoes as the chamberlain’s nephew”... The student leaves, sadly thinking that “love proves nothing, always promises unrealistic things and makes you believe into the impossible.” This is how O. Wilde’s work “The Nightingale and the Rose” ends..
