![]() ![]() The Nightingale can also see how very much in love the boy is with the girl and this acts as a trigger for the Nightingale to find a red rose. ![]() Her number one priority is the young boy’s happiness. If anything the Nightingale is acting selflessly. ![]() Thinking only of the boy’s happiness and overcoming the pain of the thorn piercing her breast. Even though the Nightingale knows that the thorn pressing against her breast may kill her she still perseveres. The Nightingale’s actions throughout the story are also important as she flies from one rose tree to another trying to find a red rose before sacrificing her life at the one tree that can give her a red rose. So strong are the boy’s desires for the girl he is preoccupied with her as though his life is not worth living unless he manages to dance and spend time with the girl. ![]() His every thought is of the girl and being able to dance with her at the ball. If anything his actions demonstrate that he is love-struck. Taken from his The Complete Short Stories collection the story is narrated in the third person by an unnamed narrator and from the beginning of the story the reader realises that the young boy is very much in love with the young girl. In The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde we have theme of love, sacrifice, selflessness, pity, materialism and gratitude. ![]()
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