Following "From the Depths", I started "Wilde's Fairy Tales", and after reading it, I was very impressed and amazed... No wonder people compare him to Hans Christian Andersen and call him the "fairy prince."
Almost every fairy tale of Wilde has an embodiment of the most beautiful because of the love. For example, in "The Nightingale and the Rose", the Nightingale gave up her life according to the requirements of the rose tree in order to help a young scholar get a rose for her beloved girl.
The rose tree put it this way: "If you want to get a red rose, you must make it in the moonlight with a beautiful song and dye it red with your heart's work." You have to put your chest against one of my thorns and keep singing at me. You have to sing to me all night, and this thorn must pierce your heart, let the blood of your life flow into my veins, become my blood, and redden my petals. ”
Faced with the rose tree's request, the nightingale said, "The price of death in exchange for a red rose is a little too great." Life is precious to everything. It was a joy to be able to sit in the green woods, watch the sun come up on his golden chariot in the morning, and watch the moon lead her pearly stars to appear in the sky at night. The scent of hawthorn trees is sweet, the bluebell flowers hidden between the river valleys and the heather that bloom on the hillside are lovely. But love is more precious than life, let alone comparing the heart of a bird with the heart of a man?"
Despite knowing that life is precious and life is beautiful, Nightingale still obeys rose's words, puts her chest against a thorn, and injects her heart into the petals of the rose, so that the petals turn red layer by layer in her song, until she has done her best to exert the last bit of strength.
The scholar sent the girl the red rose that had been bought for the life of a nightingale, but she said, "I am afraid that this flower does not match my clothes, and besides, the nephew of the noble butler has given me some real gems, and everyone knows that the gems are far more valuable than the flowers." ”
The scholar who failed in courtship discarded the delicate rose casually, and it fell into a puddle on the side of the road, crushed by a car and fell into mud. The roses dyed red with hard work are so fragrant and dead, which cannot but make people sigh and lament.
Love is so precious and beautiful, the heart of the nightingale is so pure, sincere, and selfless, and the person who does not understand love is so thin, gold-worshiping, and selfish!
Of course, moving fairy tales are not designed for children, and writers inject their understanding of beauty into them, and each one contains rich ideas and gives people deep inspiration...
Wilde once said: For artists, tributes from anyone are sweet.
Of course, the best way to pay tribute to the great chinese and foreign writers of ancient and modern times is to open their heirloom works and read them quietly.