The Nightingale and the Rose

The Nightingale and the Rose Oscar Wilde The Nightingale and the Rose

The Nightingale and The Rose Oscar Wilde

The Nightingale and the Rose Unit 5 W arming up Reinforcement T ext Analysis Background

The Nightingale and the Rose Unit 5 Questions / Activities Warming up Check-on Preview Objectives W B T R

Warming up Questions/Activities • Can you name some of the fairy tales that you have read? • Who are the most famous fairy tales collectors and writers? • Can you tell which fairy tales the following pictures illustrate? W B T R

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The prince asked who she was and how she came there. She looked at him tenderly and with a sad expression in her dark blue eyes, but could not speak. Warming up Questions / Activities

“Oh, very badly indeed!” she replied. “I have scarcely closed my eyes the whole night through. I do not know what was in my bed, but I had something hard under me, and am all over black and blue. It has hurt me so much!” Warming up Questions / Activities

But the emperor isn't wearing any clothes! Warming up Questions/Activities

Yes Beast, I will marry you. Warming up Questions/Activities

For a long time he stood gazing at her face, so full of serenity, so peaceful, lovely and pure, and he felt spring to his heart that love he had always been searching for and never found. Warming up Questions/Activities

And then the Nightingale began to sing. “That is it!” said the little girl. “Listen, listen! And it’s sitting there!” And she pointed to a little gray bird up in the boughs. Warming up Questions/Activities

“She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,” cried the young Student, “but in all my garden there is no red rose.” Warming up Questions/Activities

Complete the words according to the explanation. 1. c___________ 1. having a deep purplish red 111111111111111111 color 2. e____________ 2. a very strong feeling of joy 111111111111111111 and happiness 3. c____________ 3. a transparent natural 111111111111111 mineral that looks like ice 4. p____________ 4. to pick 5. f____________ 5. to move (the wings) quickly and lightly up and down Warming up Check-on Preview W B T R

6. s____________ 6. to fly high up into the sky 7. w___________ 7. very unhappy 8. s___________ 8. a ray of sunlight 9. e____________ 9. a bright green precious stone 10. g___________ 10. a channel at the edge of a road next to the pavement where water collects and flows away Warming up Check-on Preview W B T R

Warming up Check-on Preview • Questions on the content How do you like the story? Do you think the story tragic? Why? Do you find it a touching story? What touches you most? What’s the theme of the story? Do “the nightingale” and “the rose” have symbolic meanings? What are they? W B T R

Warming up Objectives • Understand the structure and the general idea of the story • Think about how to interpret the story • Know something about the author • Learn to appreciate the beauty in this story and analyze how it is created W B T R

The Nightingale and the Rose Unit 5 Author Background B W Genre T R

Background Author His Life Oscar Wilde1854-1900 • Born and raised in Dublin, Ireland • He went to Oxford University where he achieved a distinguished academic record. • An advocate of aestheticism and a follower of the philosophy of “art for art's sake”. B W T R

Background Author His Works Lady Windermere’s Fan The Importance of Being Earnest An Ideal Husband The Happy Prince The Selfish Giant … B W T R

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” “I have nothing to declare but my genius.” “Men become old, but they never become good.”(Lady Windermere's Fan) “Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.” (A Woman of No Importance) “Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”(The Sphinx Without a Secret) Background Author His Quotes B W T R

A slogan meaning that the beauty of art is reason enough for pursuing them — that art does not have to serve purposes taken from politics, religion, economics, and so on. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edgar Allan Poe, and Oscar Wilde argued for the doctrine of art for art's sake. Background Author Art for Art’s Sake B W T R

Background Genre Fairy Tales • The frequent use of personification • The symbolic meaning given to words • The vivid, simple narration, which is typical of the oral tradition of fairy tales • The repetitive pattern used B W T R

The Nightingale and the Rose Structure Unit 5 Style Theme Text Analysis Detailed Analysis W B T R

Text Analysis Theme • Love is better than life. • Love for love’s sake. • True love cannot survive in a practical world. W B T R

Text Analysis Style • Questions on the Style • Do you think the language poetic? Can you select some poetic sentences from the story? • What do you think contribute to the sense of beauty in this story? • How do you feel about the tragic ending? • How much does it contribute to the impressiveness of the story? • If you were the writer, how would you like to end it? • What techniques do you think the author used in writing a fairy tale? W B T R

Text Analysis Style • Why Are the Sentences Impressive? • “My roses are white,” it answered, “as white as the foam of the sea, and whiter than the snow upon the mountain.” • She sang first of the birth of love in the heart of a boy and a girl. • She sang of the birth of passion in the soul of a man and a maid. • She sang of the love that is perfected by Death, of the love that dies not in the tomb. W B T R

Text Analysis Style • Syntactic device • …yet for want of a red rose my life is made wretched. (for emphasis) • …Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as ruby was the heart. • …She passed through the grove like a shadow and like a shadow she sailed across the garden. • …Night after night have I sung of him. W B T R

Text Analysis Structure 1 2 3 Paras. 46-54 The Student discarded the red rose. Paras. 1-12 The Nightingale was struck by the “mystery of love”. Paras. 13-45 The Nightingale built a red rose with her life-blood. W B T R

Text Analysis Detailed Analysis Part I Part II Part III Main Idea Sentence Paraphrase Words & Expressions Exercise W B T R

Text Analysis Detailed Analysis Part I: Main Idea • How did the Nightingale think of the Student? • What do the “green lizard”, the “Butterfly” and the “Daisy” symbolize? • Key: She thought the Student was a true lover who badly needed a red rose for his love. They symbolize people who do not believe in true love.

Text Analysis Detailed Analysis Part I: Sentence Paraphrase • … yet for want of a red rose my life is made wretched. (para. 3) because of the lack of miserable, very unhappy

Text Analysis Detailed Analysis Part I: Words & Expressions Sentence Pattern Words Phrases Grammar wretched dear fling cynic for want of sing of dance to flutter about something of Night after night have I sung of him. Inversion

Translate the following sentences into English, using words in brackets. 1. 想不出更好的词，就让我们称它为自我中心论吧. (for want of ) 2. 我父亲喜欢古币，他算得上一个收藏家。(something of) Key: 1. For want of a better word, let’s call it self-centrism. 2. My father loves ancient coins. He is something of a collector. Text Analysis Detailed Analysis Part I: Exercise

Text Analysis Detailed Analysis Part II: Main Idea • How do you understand the following sentences? • “She sang first of the birth of love in the heart of a boy and a girl… • For she sang of the birth of passion in the soul of a man and a maid… • For she sang of the Love that is perfected by Death, of the Love that dies not in the tomb.” • Key: It symbolizes the three different stages of love in life. The first stage is the birth of love which often exists in teenagers; in the second stage love becomes mature and is characterized with strong passion in adults; the last stage is the perfection of love that is made perfect by sacrifice and will thus live in eternity.

Text Analysis Detailed Analysis Part Ⅱ : Words & Expressions Sentence Pattern Grammar Words Phrases bloom stain chill piece ecstasy film delicate soar into nip the buds build out of compare to be fond of sweep over ebb away linger on as white as the foam of the sea, and whiter than the snow upon the mountain repetition comparison

Text Analysis Detailed Analysis Part II: Sentence Paraphrase • “She has form,” he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove. “That cannot be denied. But has she got feeling? I am afraid not. In fact, she is like most artist: she is all style without any sincerity.” (para. 33) • Paraphrasing: “form” is the design, pattern or structure as opposed to the substance. In music, it refers to such things as melody, rhythm, and harmony. His comments on the Nightingale’s music remind us of what people said about Oscar Wilde’s views on art. .

Translate the following sentences into English, using words in the brackets. 1. 与其他工业城市相比，这个城市污染最少。(compare to ) 2. 即使花被拿走，香味仍会萦绕在房间。(linger on) 3. 抓住这个机会吧，不然你一辈子都会后悔的。(take) 4. 那块淡蓝色的窗帘和深色的地毯不相配。(go with) 5. 当他得知需要花很大的功夫时，他的热情就渐渐消失了。(ebb away) 答案见备注栏 Text Analysis Detailed Analysis Part II: Exercise

Text Analysis Detailed Analysis Part III: Main Idea • Is the ending beyond your expectation? How does this surprising ending contribute to create a sense of beauty and make the story tragic? • It helps to create a sharp contrast between the pure idealistic love and the cruel reality, which creates a strong sense of beauty in the end.

Text Analysis Detailed Analysis Part Ⅲ : Words & Expressions Words Phrases throw ungrateful frown gutter go with upon my word

Translate the following sentences into English, using words in the brackets. 1. 那块淡蓝色的窗帘和深色的地毯不相配。(go with) 2. 总统最后决定接受联合国的斡旋提议。(go with) 3. 很多准妈妈担心伴随着二手烟而来的对胎儿健康的潜在伤害。(go with) 4. 相信我，你今天看起来迷人极了。(upon my word) 答案见备注栏 Text Analysis Detailed Analysis Part III: Exercise

The Nightingale and the Rose Unit 5 Discussion Reinforcement Interpretation W B T R

Reinforcement Interpretation Students’ Interpretation of the Text • On the symbolic meanings of the nightingale and the red rose: • The red rose symbolizes true love, esp. tangible love, or an embodiment of true love, while the nightingale is the true lover. • The rose and the nightingale is two in one, as the nightingale pours her heart and soul into the rose. W B T R

Reinforcement Interpretation • On Nightingale’s Sacrifice: • It is worthwhile, because: • Love in her heart deserves what it costs. • She died for her own belief. • It’s Nightingale’s love for “LOVE” itself that impulses her to make such great sacrifice. “Love for Love’s Sake” • It is not worthwhile, because: • She found true love but couldn’t protect and promote it. • Her sacrifice went unknown and wasted. W B T R

Reinforcement Interpretation • On love: • It is because of this sacrifice that love is worth to be preserved and cherished. • Real love could only be interacted with people who understood it. • True love doesn’t need to be answered back. • The fact that I love you has nothing to do with you. W B T R

On Whether this is a Tragedy: Yes, it is a tragedy, because: It is a tragedy from all perspectives, both the nightingale and the boy. Tearing up the purist and the loveliest stuff just in front of the readers endows the story with the power of tragedy. A strong contrast between the pure love and the cruel reality. Reinforcement Interpretation

Reinforcement Discussion • Work in groups of four: • 1. Do the nightingale and the rose have symbolic meanings? If yes, what are they? • 2. What’s your view of true love? Can you make a short speech starting with “ Love is like……”? • 3. Do you think the nightingale’s sacrifice worthwhile? • 4. What is tragedy in your eyes? Do you think the story tragic? W B T R

The Nightingale and the Rose