I first met Oscar Wilde when I was wandering around Xinhua Bookstore and accidentally discovered a collection of fairy tales called "The Nightingale and the Rose", translated by Lin Huiyin. The cover showed big flowers of different shapes. The rose was so beautiful that I couldn't help but spend money to buy it. When I was bored, I flipped through the books in my hands in the spring breeze, and I couldn't put it down since then.

So, I got to know him - the British gentleman who I deeply regretted in this life, Oscar Wilde.

Oscar Wilde, a great talent with the title of "Fairy Tale Prince" and as famous as George Bernard Shaw, was mentioned in the British era of Queen Victoria, and no one could fail to marvel at his astonishing talent. . He is a playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist all in one, and he has left brilliant and dazzling chapters in all his fields. His plays, poems, novels and other works are widely circulated, and his famous sayings and aphorisms are countless. What is even more talked about is his extraordinary love affair with Alfred Douglas. And his sudden death was more like a fragment of a song that ended abruptly before it was played, leaving a gentle and sad sigh in the air, echoing for a long time in the cracks of the years.

"The Nightingale and the Rose" is one of the most famous fairy tales in Wilde's fairy tale collection "The Happy Prince and Other Stories". This sad fairy tale is obviously not as beautiful as we imagined.

Fairy tales are written for children, but some of Wilde's fairy tales are not suitable for children, especially "The Nightingale and the Rose". Its ending is too realistic and thought-provoking.

Some people say that the nightingale sacrificed her heart for the students, causing the roses to turn red and bloom into beautiful petals. However, the students threw away the roses in frustration after being rejected by the girl, which made them feel It’s not worth it, I feel Nightingale is too pathetic. However, in my opinion, the nightingale is not miserable. If you look at the whole story from the perspective of a nightingale, being able to pay the maximum price you can for the one you love is a blessing in itself. Plus, Nightingale doesn't ask for anything in return, so what's the regret? As long as you are willing, even if the other person doesn't know, it's not a sad thing. Such a great realization, personally speaking, is completely comparable to Andersen's The Daughter of the Sea.

Some people think that the girl in the story is too snobbish, but looking at it from another angle, the girl is not at fault. This world is inherently materialistic, and bread is easier for people to chase than daffodils. The sparkle of the gems concealed the sadness of the rose. Although the girl's behavior was understandable, it made her feel even more helpless.

The poor students finally realized the truth: "In the real world, the first thing is practicality." We cannot say that this understanding is wrong, but we feel sad for it. The young man has not yet experienced the meaning of love. The wonderful taste has been hurt by love, and he can only return to the world of his "philosophy and metaphysics books", imprisoning his soul in a tall ivory tower, and no longer contact with the world. Although they will no longer be hurt, they can no longer taste the vicissitudes of the world and understand the complex and diverse human nature... From this point of view, the students are the saddest characters in the story.

In the entire fairy tale collection, my favorite fairy tale is actually "The Giant's Garden".

The world calls this fairy tale the most beautiful of the nine fairy tales written by Oscar Wilde. Wilde is the founder of the British aestheticism art movement, and "The Giant's Garden" is full of obvious aesthetic sentiment and religious atmosphere.

Whether it is children climbing up the branches to make the tree full of flowers, orioles singing and swallows dancing, or a giant dying under a big tree with his body covered in white flowers, these beautiful scenes are like medieval oil paintings. of elegance and sophistication, and Catholicism’s sacred tracing of the meaning of death.

In this story, Wilde seems to only convey a kind of causal theory of "good things come to you", but in fact, it is more about embodying a certain religious complex. In the story, the giant's favorite child - with clear nail marks on his palms and soles - is the incarnation of Jesus and the child of God. Under the guidance of God, the soul goes to this child's garden--heaven.

In XX, Wilde converted to Catholicism with the help of his friends. Perhaps, this fairy tale foreshadowed such a result early on.

"The Happy Prince" is also a wonderful work that makes people cry after reading it.

Both the prince statue and the little swallow in this story have a noble, great, selfless and selfless spiritual quality.

The prince entrusted the precious stones and gold on his body to the swallow, asking him to give them to those who need these things - maybe a poor playwright, maybe a little girl who can't sell matches, maybe They are those starving beggars...

In order to fulfill the prince's request, the little swallow postponed its journey to Egypt for the winter again and again, flying in the sky to provide those who needed the prince's decorations. People sent the prince's blessings and help until he died of exhaustion.

The last remaining heart of the prince was broken for this loyal friend.

Fortunately, the ending is happy: under God's instructions, the angel found the two most precious and beautiful things in the world, one was the dead swallow, and the other was the prince's broken lead heart. God promised that the little swallows could fly and dance in his garden forever, singing to their heart's content, while the prince could praise God forever in God's golden city and obtain eternal life.

Both the prince and the swallow are worthy of praise. The selflessness of the prince and the selflessness of the swallow caused their death and rebirth. What is worth pondering is the relationship between the prince and the swallow. This seems to be a subtle emotion between friendship and love. Whether Yanzi is willing to send items to the prince and eventually dies of exhaustion, or the prince is heartbroken by grief for Yanzi's death, they are all for each other. This kind of friendship has to be said to be quite touching. Perhaps, to a certain extent, the Prince and the Swallow also possess certain qualities of Wilde himself, and are a metaphor for certain relationships in his life.

Wilde’s legendary life lasted only 46 years.

He was born into a noble family, but when he died, he was in poverty and his wife and children were separated. His talent was astonishing, but he was criticized for his forbidden love with Douglas. It was not until nearly a century after his death that his reputation was rectified. He gave up his career for the love of his heart, and was even jailed, but his lover left him unmarried. In the end, Wilde died in Paris, and Douglas regretted his life.

Wilde’s tragedy is not accidental, but a victim under the background of the times. This charming and talented man with the demeanor of a typical British gentleman was, after all, just an insignificant grain of dust in the long river of life, swept away by the torrent of time and space, and disappeared without a trace.

However, the works he left behind will always be held on the throne of the art palace, like a crystal-clear and bright pearl, for future generations to admire, think and explore.