The fisherman who couldn't extricate himself embarked on a difficult journey to find the exiled soul. After a series of futile pursuits, he found a witch. After accepting the harsh conditions put forward by the witch, the fisherman finally sent his soul away.
A year later, his soul came to the seaside to call his master, but was flatly rejected. Another year passed and the soul came back with wealth, but the fisherman said, "Love is more important than wealth." The third year passed, and the soul came to the sea from the land. He described to his master a beautiful girl who danced barefoot with a veil.
The young fisherman thought that the little mermaid had no feet and could not dance with him. Feeling a little lost, he promised to have a look and then go back to his lover. The ecstatic soul quickly entered the fisherman's body. Lured by the soul, the fisherman did many evil things along the way.
However, when the young fisherman returned to the seaside, the mermaid had disappeared. Two years later, the fisherman living by the sea heard the cry from the ocean. He rushed to the shore and saw the little mermaid, but she had died at his feet.
The miserable fisherman held the little mermaid in his arms, ignored the plea of his soul, let the black waves approach little by little, and was finally swallowed up by the sea.
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Creation background
Victorian era is an era of multiple contradictions, and the conflict between old and new fashions in British upper class is fierce. People of all colors in society, some pursue aestheticism and heroic career passionately, while others become vulgar and materialistic.
From Wilde's fairy tale The Fisherman and His Soul, we can see that the social ideology of mainstream Victorian society tries to impose its values and moral system on the whole society.
Among them, there are two vivid and powerful social mainstream consciousness figures, priests and businessmen.
In addition, we can clearly feel the pressure brought by the mainstream ideology and the pressure faced by social individuals in the pursuit of personal value from the reflection of the thought of witch exiled from society on fishermen giving up their souls and giving up the moral value system advocated by the whole mainstream society.
The Fisherman and His Soul is Oscar Wilde's masterpiece. Its language is beautiful and its content is magnificent. It depicts and constructs a dreamland of ethereal beauty, which makes people intoxicated when reading, and the senses are satisfied and enjoyed by people's desires, which brings aestheticism to the extreme.
On the other hand, it shows all kinds of puzzles that an aesthete encounters when facing the society. This fairy tale touches the aesthetic dilemma, and modern aestheticism based on perceptual monism has its inevitable limitations.
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Baidu Encyclopedia _ Fisherman and His Soul