复旦大学：《英美短篇小说 British and American Short Stories》教学课件（PPT）Oscar Wilde, The Young King

The Young King Oscar wilde

The Young King Oscar Wilde

Contents The Author The Fairy Tale The Writing style The Main Character Question for discussion

Contents The Author The Writing Style The Fairy Tale The Main Character Question for discussion

Oscar Fingal Flahertie Wills Wilde Born 16 October 1854 Died 30 November 1900 (aged 46 Period Victorian era Nationality Irish Occupation Writer, poet, playwright G emre Drama, short story, criticism dialogue, journalism Literary Aestheticism movement Works Novel The Picture of Dorian Gray(1890) Play The Importance of Being Earnest(1898) Lady Windermere's Fan(1892) A Woman of No Importance (1893) An Ideal Husband (1895 Fairy stories House of Pomegranates(1891) Poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) Essays and more

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde Born 16 October 1854 Died 30 November 1900 (aged 46) Period Victorian era Nationality Irish Occupation Writer, poet, playwright Genre Drama, short story, criticism, dialogue, journalism Literary Aestheticism movement Works Novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) Play The Importance of Being Earnest (1898) Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) A Woman of No Importance (1893) An Ideal Husband (1895) Fairy stories House of Pomegranates (1891) Poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) Essays and more

The Young King and other The Young King A House of Pomegranates published in 1891 a companion to The Happy Prince and Other Tales Contents The Young King The Birthday of the Infanta The Fisherman and His Soul The Star-Child intended neither for the British child nor the British public

The Young King A House of Pomegranates published in 1891 a companion to The Happy Prince and Other Tales Contents The Young King The Birthday of the Infanta The Fisherman and His Soul The Star-Child “intended neither for the British child nor the British public

The nobles, peasants and bishops rebuke a much higher being m The young king has officially dressed as a son of crowned the young shepherd in his coronation d Dream 3: all servants in search of illegitimate his crowns rubies shepherd son of were killed the recently dead King's daughter Dream 2: one slave was sent underwater to find pearls for the scepter and dies in awe of the Dream 1 group lendor of his starving peasants new home working at looms to weave his robe

illegitimate shepherd son of the recently dead king's daughter in awe of the splendor of his new home Dream 1: a group of starving peasants working at looms to weave his robe Dream 2: one slave was sent underwater to find pearls for the scepter and dies Dream 3: all servants in search of his crown’s rubies were killed a much higher being has officially crowned the young king The nobles, peasants and bishops rebuke him. The young king dressed as a son of shepherd in his coronation day

Writing style beauty sadness a young man of marvelous and foreign beauty He had shown signs of that strange passion for beauty the slim, fair-haired Court pages, with their floating mantles, and gay fluttering ribands

a young man of marvelous and foreign beauty He had shown signs of that strange passion for beauty. the slim, fair-haired Court pages, with their floating mantles, and gay fluttering ribands Writing Style beauty sadness

Character Dedicated to beauty Jesus hater Care about people Preacher the e young king Saint paul

Character the young king Saint Paul Dedicated to beauty Care about people Jesus hater Preacher

What Makes a real Kins Chamberlain: For how shall the people know that thou art a king, if thou hast not a king's raiment? ables: The people wait for their king, and thou showest them a beggar. He brings shame upon our state, and is unworthy to be our master. A peasant: To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still Bishop: The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the worlds sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer

What Makes a Real King Chamberlain: For how shall the people know that thou art a king, if thou hast not a king’s raiment? Nobles: The people wait for their king, and thou showest them a beggar. He brings shame upon our state, and is unworthy to be our master. A peasant: To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still. Bishop: The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer

What Makes a real Kins The dead staff blossomed, and bare lilies that were hiter that rl. The dry thorn blo bare roses that were redder than rubies And the people fell upon their knees in awe, and the nobles sheathed their swords and did homage and the Bishop's face grow pale, and his hands trembled. "A greater than I hath crowned thee, he d and he knelt before him

The dead staff blossomed, and bare lilies that were whiter than pearl. The dry thorn blossomed, and bare roses that were redder than rubies. And the people fell upon their knees in awe, and the nobles sheathed their swords and did homage, and the Bishop’s face grow pale, and his hands trembled. “A greater than I hath crowned thee,” he cried, and he knelt before him. What Makes a Real King

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