Sacrifice and Aesthetic Idealism: A Symbolic Reading of Oscar Wilde’s  Short Story: “The Nightingale and the Rose” (1888)

Dr.Mrinalini B.Chavan

Sacrifice and Aesthetic Idealism: A Symbolic Reading of Oscar Wilde’s Short Story: “The Nightingale and the Rose” (1888)

Authors

Dr.Mrinalini B.Chavan

Keywords:

Sacrifice, Aesthetic idealism, Symbolism, Fairy tale, Unrequited love, Artistic martyrdom, Victorian materialism, Oscar Wilde

Abstract

The late Victorian period witnessed profound tension between utilitarian values and aesthetic idealism,with artists increasingly questioning whether beauty and art could survive in a materialistic age thatmeasured worth primarily through economic exchange. The present paper deals with the problem of unrequited devotion and the tragic disconnect

References

Wilde, Oscar. “The Nightingale and the Rose.” The Complete Short Fiction, edited by Ian Small, Penguin Books, 2003, pp. 29–34.

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Published

2024-01-15

How to Cite

Dr.Mrinalini B.Chavan. (2024). Sacrifice and Aesthetic Idealism: A Symbolic Reading of Oscar Wilde’s Short Story: “The Nightingale and the Rose” (1888). Journal of Computational Analysis and Applications (JoCAAA), 33(1A), 902–909. Retrieved from https://eudoxuspress.com/index.php/pub/article/view/5128