The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde

However, if you look at it from a logical standpoint, the student is right. It appeals to the readers’ sense of love and what love is, but also makes one feel terrible about being a part of such a corrupt society. Her death is then repaid by the fickleness and folly of human nature. It pulls on the reader’s heartstrings when they learn the nightingale is about to die, and then gives her life for love. This story is a very emotional one as well as ironic. There is a twist at the end, but I will not tell you what is. She could not find one until a branch under the windowsill of the young man’s tower told him it would give her a red rose and pricked her heart on one of his thorns, and she agrees. Animals crept past him wondering why he is weeping and the Nightingale replies “He is weeping for a red rose.” (Wilde) The nightingale understands the mysteries of the Love and went searching for a red rose. A nightingale resting in her nest in an oak tree hears a young gentleman lamenting that he cannot dance with the girl he desires at the Prince’s ball tomorrow night, for the girl wants a red rose and he has none.

The story of “The Nightingale and the Rose” by Oscar Wilde may be a short story, but it is a tragic one. I believe this tale also to be one about the failings of so called wise men. It is a tale of selflessness, but I believe we can dig a little deeper into this tale. “The Nightingale and the Rose” is short story by Oscar Wilde.

The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde