Learning Outcomes
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Learner will be able to
read and understand a prose text.
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Learner will be able to
understand the importance of nature and the relationship between man and
nature.
· Learner will be able to appreciate emotions like compassion and true love.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. He was spokesperson of the movement aestheticism. "The Nightingale and the Rose" is a fairytale taken from his 1888 collection "The Happy Prince and Other Tales". The story is about romantic love and the relationship between man and nature.
The Nightingale and the Rose is a story
written by Oscar Wilde. The story revolves around a student who is in love with
a beautiful girl, the Professor’s daughter. She has promised him that she would
dance with him if he brings a red rose. But the student is helpless since it is
winter and he cannot find any red roses. The Nightingale listens to the
student’s lamentation and feels sorry for him. The bird decides to help the
student and approaches various rose trees. Finally he found a red rose tree,
but the tree did not have any flowers. The tree suggests that it can produce a
flower if the Nightingale would sing all night by allowing the thorns of the
tree to pierce its heart. A flower was there by the morning but the Nightingale
was dead. Being unaware of this sacrifice, the student brings the flower to the
girl’s house, but the girl rejects him. Angry and desperate, the boy throws
away that flower.
The
story is about true love and how the world fails to see it. Also, the writer
focuses on the relationship between man and nature.
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