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The Nightingale and the Rose
In "The Nightingale and the Rose," it can be argued that the nightingale's sacrifice was unnecessary because the red rose (which she dies for) does not bring about the student's happiness. At the...
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The Nightingale and the Rose
In the passage you reference, "she" refers to the Nightingale. Here's the passage in full: “She has form,” he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove, “that cannot be denied...
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The Nightingale and the Rose
In "The Nightingale and the Rose," the boy is a student who falls in love with the daughter of his professor. In terms of his character, the boy is a defeatist, as shown by his reaction to the...
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The Nightingale and the Rose
In "The Nightingale and the Rose," the young girl is the daughter of the Professor and the object of the student's affections. Although Wilde does not describe the girl physically, the story...
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The Nightingale and the Rose
The three main characters represent different degrees of feeling and sentiment. The Student The student is in love with being in love. He speaks of love much like the courtly lovers of old: "Ah,...
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The Nightingale and the Rose
The previous answer does a fine job of pointing out the ways in which Oscar Wilde satirizes Victorian society in his short story (fable, actually) "The Nightingale and the Rose." The reference to...
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The Nightingale and the Rose
Tragically, the student does not realise that the Nightingale sacrificed her life so that he could have a red rose. In fact, he has no idea about this sacrifice because he could not understand the...
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The Nightingale and the Rose
In "The Nightingale and the Rose," Wilde argues love is not always a pleasant and idyllic experience. We see this through the experiences of the student who first undergoes great distress when he...
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The Nightingale and the Rose
In the beautiful story about altruism, true love, and deception, "The Nightingale and the Rose," a nightingale overhears a young scholar from Oxford talk about how desperately he wants to please...
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The Nightingale and the Rose
Wilde portrays the student and young girl's love as shallow and fleeting. It is solely based on the procurement of a red rose in return for an evening of dancing. Even when the student gets a rose,...
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The Nightingale and the Rose
The answer is "no". The story of "The Nightingale and the Rose" is, both, sad and ironic in the treatment of the themes of love, sacrifice, and altruism. There are two main characters. One is...
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The Nightingale and the Rose
In "The Nightingale and the Rose," the nightingale symbolizes goodness, virtue and sacrifice. This is because the nightingale sacrifices her life so that the student can have the rose which he so...
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The Nightingale and the Rose
The antagonist of the story "The Nightingale and the Rose" is, undoubtedly, the young scholar. The student, along with the actual nightingale, are the primary characters that experience the...
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The Nightingale and the Rose
In "The Nightingale and the Rose," the student is searching for a red rose. This is because he has fallen in love with a girl and she has specified that he brings her a red rose, as we learn in the...
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The Nightingale and the Rose
In "The Nightingale and the Rose," the nightingale represents true love because she selflessly sacrifices her own life to provide a rose for the student, the young man she loves. In contrast, when...
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The Nightingale and the Rose
In "The Nightingale and the Rose," the boy reacts harshly to the nightingale. When she decides to sacrifice her life and sings about her love for the boy, he makes assumptions about her character...
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The Nightingale and the Rose
In Oscar Wilde's short story "The Nightingale and the Rose" a student was sad because his intended object of affection, a young woman of a higher status than his own, said that the only way that...
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The Nightingale and the Rose
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The Nightingale and the Rose
Oscar Wilde’s story “The Nightingale and the Rose” was published in 1888 in The Happy Prince and Other Tales, a collection of fairy tales for children. In this story, the Student seeks the...
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The Nightingale and the Rose
It is arguable that the truth about true love that is presented in Oscar Wilde's short story "The Nightingale and the Rose" is that the idea of love, of true love, is different from person to...
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The Nightingale and the Rose
psychoanalytic and feminism
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The Nightingale and the Rose
In the short story The Nightingale and the Rose, by Oscar Wilde, one could argue that the character which inspires the most sympathy is definitely the poor bird who sacrifices its life in the name...
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The Nightingale and the Rose
As the main title suggests, the nightingale is the main character of the short story The Nightingale and the Rose, by Oscar Wilde. When we describe the role of the main character we often refer to...
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The Nightingale and the Rose
The turning point of the story The Nightingale and the Rose is when the professor's daughter rejects the student's red rose and, in turn, the student throws the red rose away in the gutter, with a...
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The Nightingale and the Rose
The main theme of Oscar Wilde's short story "The Nightingale and the Rose" explores the effects of self-sacrifice in the name of what one truly believes in. In this story, the nightingale is a bird...
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The Nightingale and the Rose
Oscar Wilde uses a myriad of literary techniques in "The Nightingale and the Rose" because the purpose of this specific literary work was to produce an allegorical prose which can relate the topic...
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The Nightingale and the Rose
Wilde's story has three settings: the student's garden, the doorway of his professor's house, and the student's room. Almost all of the story occurs in the garden, a place of quiet beauty. In the...
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The Nightingale and the Rose
A nightingale overhears a young student lament that he only needs a red rose to give to a girl he loves to win her heart. This cannot be done since it is not the season, but the nightingale finally...