by Oscar Wilde
Question : 1 - Write about your understanding of the story The Nightingale and the Rose.
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The Nightingale knows that Love is greater than Life, so when she discovers that the only way to obtain a red rose is to sacrifice her own heart, she does so willingly. All of nature listens to her final love song. The last character to appear is the professor's daughter, the object of the Student's affection.
The story begins with a young student who is lamenting in his garden because the love of his life will dance with him in the ball only if he brings her a red rose but there is no red rose in his garden. The Nightingale, living in the oak-tree of his garden, hears the young man crying over his helplessness and lamenting the fact that all his learning is useless since it cannot win him a girl’s love.
The nightingale comes to know that the young man is weeping for a red rose. She feels the pain of that boy and wants to help him. The bird flies and goes to the various bushes but cannot find a red rose. Finally she comes to know about a way of getting a red rose by a tree. She performs a suicidal act while singing with his heart on the thorn, giving her heart’s blood to a white rose which turns it in to a beautiful red rose. In this process the Nightingale dies.
When the student wakes up, he sees the red rose under his window, plucks it joyously and brings it to his love. The girl rejects the rose by saying that it will not match her blue dress and someone else has brought her jewels that are worth more than a rose. The boy throws the rose in the gutter and a cart runs over it.
At the end he decides that logic is better than love and love is unrealistic. He goes back to his home and starts reading a book.
Question : 2 - How many Characters are there in the story, and what do they do or say ?
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* There are five characters in the story.
1. The Nightingale
2. The Student
3. The Rose-tree
4. The Girl
5. The Lizard
1. The Nightingale:
The Nightingale is the protagonist of the story. She is romantic by nature and is inspired by student’s love. She sings about love all the time and waits to see it. When she sees the student crying for a red rose, she decides to sacrifice her life to help him out. She gives her heart’s blood to a white flower to color its petals and fulfill the need of student and in this process she dies. The whole story revolves around her sacrifice and selfless nature which is not appreciated throughout the story.
At the end of the story, her sacrifice is ignored and wasted by everyone when the red rose, stained by her heart’s blood, is rejected and destroyed. Her selfless nature and unshakeable believe in true love shows that true does exist but people make it selfish.
2. The Student :
He is a young boy with beautiful eyes and red lips who claims to be in love with a girl. In the very beginning of the story the student appears as a true lover who laments in his garden for the love of his life. He inspires the bird to sacrifice her life to help him out but as the story goes we come to know about his true nature. He is pre-occupied by practicality and lacks the ability to feel true emotions.
When the girls reject the red rose given by him, he calls her ungrateful and suddenly all his love fades away. He decides that love is unpractical and unrealistic. It shows him as a materialistic person rather than a person who believes in love and selflessness.
3. The Rose - Tree :
There are three rose trees in the story but only one plays a major role in it. This is the tree under student’s window that helps the Nightingale in creating a red rose.
When Nightingale asks him for a way of getting a red rose, he refuses to tell her because he does not want her to lose her life. But the Nightingale performs this suicidal act by pressing her heart against one of his thorns, giving her heart’s blood to the rose to dye it red.
The rose-tree is the only one in the story who recognizes her sacrifice and remains sympathetic her.
4. The Girl :
The girl is briefly introduced in the story. She expresses an important theme. She is the student’s sweetheart and professor’s daughter. She tells the student to bring a red rose for her if he wants to dance with her in the party. When the student brings her a bright red-rose she rejects it because she is provided with jewels by another rich suitor.
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This act of selfishness shows her as a materialistic and shallow person who values wealth more than true love.
5. The Lizard :
This character appears in the beginning of the story. When the student cries, he overhears him and laughs at him because he finds it useless to cry for a red rose.
It shows the lizard as a pessimist who believes that the people are motivated by self-interest rather than acting for selfless reasons.
This belief of lizard can be seen in the end of the story when the rose, a symbol of sacrificial love, is rejected by the girl and destroyed by the student for their self interests.
Question: 3 - If you were asked to do the second part of the story , what would it be ? Write feely .
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If I am given the opportunity to create another part of the story, I will write from that student's side. Because in the whole story, because of that girl, that student has suffered a lot in his studies. When the girl talks about bringing a red rose to that student, it is said that the girl will dance with the student afterwards.
But in my opinion, when the girl can't even sing a good song, then the student didn't need to brainstorm and fall behind the red rose. Because of that student that bird is nightingale has ended its life.
In life, that student should forget that girl and move on. It should make the girl feel. Nightingale had to lose her life for a rose and in the end the two were not together. When that student studies, he proceeds by remembering that in his mind. After that he passed 12th standard and got good percentage. Then he gets information for a good college which will be a good college where I can complete my studies well.
He gets admission in a good college. He also works hard in college and then again he meets another girl like that girl, and proposes her and then the student remembers an incident in his life.
Then that student gets a good job. Then that student makes another girl his partner. Makes the girl realize that there are many cheaters like you but I have found my partner better than you who helps me in my life. Helps me a lot to succeed.
That girl also finds many boys like her, but those boys betray her like the student and leave. Then finally the girl realizes that I didn't appreciate it when I found someone to love.
That girl says never leave the one you truly love, because sometimes it happens that you don't appreciate it when you truly love yourself, but later on you regret that you lost a good man.
Had I been given the chance to make another part, I would have made something similar.
Question: 4 - Upload the photo of the poetry you have written as a part of classroom activities done based on the story .
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