"The Happy Prince" is the most famous work of the famous British writer Wilde in the second half of the nineteenth century, which is one of the most beautiful fairy tales ever written, telling such a sad and touching love story.
A little swallow, left behind, had to stay overnight in a city, perched on a statue of the Happy Prince that stood in the center of the city.
The Happy Prince sympathized with and cared for those who suffered in the city, and his tears and kindness touched the equally loving Little Swallow, who gave the ruby on the hilt of his sword to a little boy who was in urgent need of medical treatment for the Happy Prince, and used his wings to alleviate the little boy's pain.
The next day when Swallow was getting ready to leave, the Happy Prince begged Swallow to give one of his eyes, a sapphire, to a young man in need of help, and Swallow was once again impressed by the Prince and had to spend a cold night at the Prince's feet after completing his mission.
On the third day, little swallow bids farewell to the happy prince again, because the weather is getting colder, and his companions are calling him, but the happy prince has another wish to fulfill, he takes off his only eye, another sapphire, and asks swallow to give it to the little girl who sells matches.
The Happy Prince had already given all the treasures on his body to the suffering and suffering, and the swallow could finally leave after completing the entrustment, but he decided to stay, because he had fallen in love with the kind and noble prince, and he wanted to spend the rest of his life with the blind prince, but his migratory bird nature and weak body could not withstand the cold of the north after all, on a particularly cold night, he died at the feet of the Happy Prince, and when the Happy Prince saw the dead little swallow, his lead heart instantly split in half.
After losing all the ornaments, the Happy Prince became synonymous with ugliness in the eyes of the townspeople, so he was thrown into the furnace and melted, and his lead heart, which had been split in half, was thrown on the pile...
When spring came, the angels came to the city and took away two of the most beautiful things in the city, the lead heart and the body of the swallow, and God gave them the opportunity to be resurrected, so that they could live happily in heaven every day...
This story is not complicated, of course, it is not long, but the truth contained in it is enough to make people feel excited, tears in their eyes, and it is worth mentioning that there is a big secret hidden between its words...
When Wilde tells the story of the Happy Prince and the Little Swallow with his raw flower clever pen, he refers to the Little Swallow with a pronoun for male, and arranges for him to be a former lover of female identity, a reed who likes to show off his style. When Reed's promiscuous behavior hurts XiaoYanzi, he decides to leave the north and fly to the south, which is why he and the Happy Prince meet.
Since the Happy Prince is a prince, then of course he is also a male like Xiaoyanzi, so the feelings between Xiaoyanzi and the Happy Prince have become the love between the same sex, and this is actually the feeling that Wilde longs in his heart but dare not pursue openly.
The fairy tale "The Happy Prince" is one of the "Happy Prince and Other Stories" published in 1888, when Wilde was thirty-four years old, when he was struggling in the emotional strait between heterosexuality and homosexuality.
Born in Ireland in 1854 to an aristocratic family, Wilde graduated from Oxford University in 1878, married Constance Lloyd in 1884, and his two sons Cyril and Vivian were born in 1885 and 1886, respectively.
Judging from the content in "The Happy Prince", Wilde was already caught up in a homosexual plot when he created this fairy tale, and it is likely that he and his first homosexual, Rose, met before and after this time.
After completing a series of fairy tales such as The Happy Prince, Wilde created his masterpiece on fiction, The Portrait of Dowling Gray, which is said to have been created by Wilde's visit to a painter.
One day, Wilde went to visit the home of a famous painter, where he met the painter's male model, a young and beautiful young man, staring at the beautiful man in front of him, Wilde could not help but sigh: "What a pity! Such a beautiful life, there is still a day of aging..." The painter replied: "Yes, if only he could be allowed to grow old instead of him." This sentence was so enlightening to Wilde that he soon began writing The Portrait of Dowling Gray.
The story of "Portrait of Dowling Gray" goes like this:
The painter Howard painted a portrait of the beautiful man Dowling Gray as big as a real person, this painting allowed Dowling to discover his amazing beauty, but also made him begin to feel pain for Shaohua's perishable, beautiful and difficult to last, suddenly, he had a magical idea: If this portrait can replace me to bear the grind of the years, so that I can always keep my youth, how good it would be!
To Dowling's surprise, one day later, his impossible wish came true inexplicably.
One night, Dowling treats his favorite actress Sybil roughly, and when he returns home, he actually finds that the portrait has a cold and cruel expression on its face, and it turns out that the portrait has changed along with Dowling's heart, and then there is a series of uncontrollable strange things...
In 1891, the Portrait of Dorian Gray was published, and wilde, as the author, became acquainted with Dorian Gray, Alfred Douglas, in the same year.
Alfred was a proud and rebellious aristocratic teenager, and his character was half born and half because he had a harsh and rough father, the Marquis of Queensbury, and Alfred's relationship with his father had always been incompatible with each other, and his path to homosexuality was in some ways the result of a discordant father-son relationship.
Like Wilde, Alfred was a poet, which is one of the reasons they came together.
Wilde and Alfred spent four years of happy time together secretly from 1891 to 1895, a secret discovered by Alfred's father, the Marquis of Queensbury, as they immersed themselves in the wonderful world of love and poetry.
The Marquis of Queensbury, who was already dissatisfied with his son, took Wilde to court in a fit of rage on the charge of sodomy, and he wanted to send the ill-mannered Wilde to prison and teach his disobedient son a lesson.
However, Alfred refused to give in to his father, and he encouraged Wilde to appeal, accusing the Marquis of Queensbury of discrediting Wilde, and Wilde, blinded by love, really did as Alfred said, and the appeal failed, adding one to the crime, and finally sentenced to two years in prison for "acting immorally with other men".
While Wilde was serving his sentence, his wife Constance moved to Italy with her two children and changed their surnames to Dutch, completely breaking the line with Wilde.
Although Wilde paid little attention to him after he was imprisoned, and Wilde resented him, he returned to Alfred's arms after his release.
Wilde, however, is Alfred's Wilde, and Alfred is no longer Wilde's Alfred. Wilde was no longer in the limelight, his reputation was discredited, and he was no longer the great poet and writer who stood on high, so in Alfred's heart, when they reunited after the disaster, "that is no longer interesting", as a result, the two homosexuals who had sworn to the sea and were once like glue, were separated in the second year after their reunion.
Faced with the double frustration of career and love, Wilde becomes depressed, and he has to find solace in his first homosexual, Rose, whom he has always loved, and converts to Catholicism under his introduction in order to get relief from the confusion of the world...
On November 30, 1900, a generation of literary heroes, Wilde, died of meningitis in a hated way in the Alsace Hotel in Paris, when he had just spent his forty-sixth birthday in solitude, accompanied only by Rose and another friend.
Nearly a hundred years later, Wilde was finally rehabilitated and received the great honor of erecting a statue in Trafalgar Square, if he had known about it, he did not know what kind of emotion he would have issued...
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