Nightingale's image interprets the relationship between life and true love and plays a touching movement.
Roses symbolize pure love and the supreme art and beauty that Wilde pursued all his life.
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The creative background of The Nightingale and the Rose;
Wilde lived in the Victorian era of19th century, and the British industrial revolution was in full swing. The whole society has undergone unprecedented drastic changes, materialistic, money first, and the wind of "mercenary" permeates every corner of Great Britain. From 65438 to the beginning of 2009, after the establishment of the capitalist system in western Europe, it had a great impact on social psychology.
People's world outlook and values have changed greatly. In that society, the bourgeoisie erased the sacred glory of all the most respected professions. It turned doctors, lawyers, priests, poets and scholars into paid servants. "
Facing the money worship, bourgeois philosophy and hypocritical morality of the society at that time, Wilde described a fictional story in the fairy tale The Nightingale and the Rose, in order to reveal the naked money relationship between people in British capitalist society and all kinds of ugly phenomena arising from it. Pursuing the aesthetic world of the soul and confronting vulgar social reality with artistic beauty.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Nightingale and Rose