![]() ![]() ![]() This in turn, makes me wonder about the nature of love and the idea that it can cause us both joy and pain.Īs the story develops, we see how the nightingale is prepared to sacrifice herself to create the red rose in order that the student can take this to the girl he loves. This made me wonder why why did the nightingale take this challenge on? She seems to see the student, and his longing for the girl of his dreams, as the embodiment of love saying ‘Here indeed is the true lover….What I sing of he suffers: what is joy to me, to him is pain’. Yet not quite a fairy story, as it is not the student who embarks on the quest, but the nightingale who goes to the three trees in search of this red rose. This story, the Nightingale and the Rose, has a feel of a fairy story to it, with the young student, the quest for a red rose for his beloved and the element of three, which is often found in fairytales. ![]() Check out the rest of our readings for November and download the calendar here. ![]() Cheshire Hub Leader at The Reader, Alison Finegan, reads The Nightingale and The Rose by Oscar Wilde. The theme for our daily readings this month is 'Light in the Dark'. ![]()
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