“Bring me the two most precious things in the city,” said God to one of his angles; and the angel bought him the leaded heart and the dead bird.”
In the “Happy Prince” Wilde shows greed and selfishness as he shows that the rich people always want more. The town- councillors calls “The Happy Prince”:
“Little better than a beggar.”
The Queens maid of honour calls the seamstress lazy
“I have ordered passion-flowers to be embroider on it; but the seamstress is so lazy.” This shows that the rich people are lazy and want everything done for themselves. They don’t appreciate what they have and always want more.
Wilde shows the fickleness of human nature and love by the student thinking that he loves the professor’s daughter, but he gets turned down and decides love is untrustworthy and so the student goes back to his books.
Wilde shows romantic love by the nightingale believing that true love was worth dying for. He shows fickle love by the professors’ daughter wanting something of value even though she asked the student for a red rose. She didn’t love the student for who he really was.
Science and Logic are reliable and trustworthy therefore the student goes back to his books after he finds that love turns him down.
Wilde shows the selfish nature of human behaviour in “The Selfish Giant” because he is shown as a very selfish person because he did not let the children play in his garden so he keeps his garden all to himself
“My own garden is my own garden”
The Characters in Wilde’s Fairytales do change as shown in “The selfish giant.” The giant becomes unselfish when he realises what he has done wrong by not letting the children play in his garden and so he lets the children play in his garden and the seasons then start to change as it got stuck when he did not let the children play in his garden. “He was sorry for what he had done.”
In “The Selfish Giant” shows the importance of forgiveness when the Giant realises what he has done wrong and says sorry and gets forgiven by the children. So he lets the children play in his garden then an unusual boy comes along (Jesus) with scars on his back the giant puts him on a tree and the garden starts to blossom. Jesus forgives the giant for being selfish
“You let me play once in your garden, today you shall come with me to my garden paradise.”
This is what Jesus says to the giant when Jesus say paradise he means heaven.
“The nightingale and the rose” is unconventional because the students love refuses him. “The Happy Prince” is unconventional as it is a sad story showing death as the two main characters die and poverty which most normal fairytales do not show. “The Selfish Giant” is also unconventional as the giant dies at the end after he becomes kind hearted.
Oscar Wilde’s fairytales were unrealistic because in “The Happy Prince” the swallow could talk. In “The nightingale and the rose” the nightingale understood the student’s problem and helps. In “The Selfish Giant” the seasons get stuck because the giant becomes cold hearted and selfish.
In Oscar Wilde’s fairytales Love mirrors real life because reality love can cause a lot of problems. In “The Selfish Giant” is showed that people can change from being greedy to generous. Poverty and inequality is a real issue in reality which was shown in Wilde’s Fairy tale “The Happy Prince.”
