1、单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,Oscar Wilde,Oscar Wilde,(1854 1900)was an,Irish writer,and,poet,.After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s,he became one of Londons most popular playwrights in the early 1890s.Today he is remembered for his,epigrams,plays and the circumstances
2、of his imprisonment,followed by his early death.,A House of Pomegranates,Fairytales for adults,The Young King,The Birthday of the,Infanta,The Fisherman and his Soul,The Star-Child,A House of Pomegranates,Fairytales for adults,Beautiful Words,Amazing Imagination,Cruel Contractions,Eternal Sadness,The
3、 Fisherman and his Soul,A young Fisherman finds a,Mermaid,and wants nothing more than to marry her,but he cannot,for one cannot live underwater if one has a soul.He goes to his priest,but the priest tells him his soul is his most precious possession,and soul men are lost.He tries to sell it to merch
4、ants,who tell him it worth nothing.He goes to a witch,who tells him his soul is his shadow,and says how it can be cut away with a knife.,After cutting his shadow and soul free from his body,his soul tells him that the world is cruel and asks to take with him his heart to allay his fears.The Fisherma
5、n,however,refuses to give his Soul his heart,because his love needs it,and he sends the Soul away and joins his Mermaid under the sea.,Illustrations by Jessie M.Kings,The Fisherman and his Soul,The Soul comes to the Fisherman to tell him what he has done in his absence each year.Each time,he comes i
6、nto the possession of a magical object,but the Fisherman values love greater than everything the Soul tried to tempt him with.The Soul first talks of the Mirror of Wisdom,then the Ring of Riches.,The third year,the Soul tells the Fisherman about a nearby city where a woman dances barefooted.The fish
7、erman agreed to go with the Soul to see her dance for the Mermaid has no feet.He and his Soul are reunited.On the way,the Soul tells the Fisherman to do things:to steal,to beat a child and to kill and rob the man in whose house they were guests.The Fisherman tries to cut away his Soul again.But once
8、 reunited,they could never again be parted.,Illustrations by Jessie M.Kings,Illustrations by Jessie M.Kings,The Fisherman and his Soul,Returning to the shore,the Fisherman built a shelter near the water and calls the Mermaid daily,but she never came.After years,the lifeless body of the Mermaid washe
9、s ashore,and the Fisherman held it while the violent waves enveloped him.The Priest,finding the drowned Fisherman cradling the dead Mermaid,pronounces them accursed and has them buried in an unmarked grave in the corner of a field,and refuses to bless the sea as was his intent to do.Three years late
10、r,the Priest goes to the flower-covered altar,prepared to give a sermon on Gods vengeful wrath,but,for reasons he cannot explain,he cannot do so and instead spoke of Gods love.People tell him the flowers came from the corner of the field.The next day,the Priest blesses the water,but the flowers neve
11、r grew again and the mermen move to a different bay.,And she sang a,marvellous,song.For she sang of the Sea-folk who drive their flocks from cave to cave,and carry the little calves on their shoulders;of the Tritons who have long green beards,and hairy breasts,and blow through twisted conchs when th
12、e King passes by;of the palace of the King which is all of amber,with a roof of clear emerald,and a pavement of bright pearl;and of the gardens of the sea where the great,filigrane,fans of coral wave all day longof the little children who catch hold of the slippery porpoises and ride laughing upon t
13、heir backs;of the Mermaids who lie in the white foam and hold out their arms to the mariners;and of the sea-lions with their curved tusks,and the sea-horses with their floating manes.,她唱了一首美妙无比的歌。因为她唱的是自己同伴的故事。他们赶着牲口从一个山洞来到另一个山洞,肩头上扛着小牛犊;她还唱起了半人半鱼的海神们,他们长着绿色的长胡须,毛茸茸的胸膛,每当国王经过的时候,就吹响螺旋形的海螺;她唱到了国王的宫殿,
14、那全部都是用城冶造成的,屋顶用诱明的绿宝石蓝成,道路由发光的珍珠铺就;她唱到了海中的花园,那里有巨大的珊瑚大扇整天都在舞动着,,她唱到一群小孩子,他们捉住滑溜溜的海豚,笑着骑在它们身上;她又唱起了美人鱼,她们躺在白色的泡沫中,伸出手臂向水手们挥动;她唱到了那些身体长得弯弯的海狮,以及长着飘动的鬃毛的海马。,Since we are adults,I strongly recommend these stories;,Sometimes fairytales can reach a degree we do not expect;,Love the way he wrote,but its hard to find a main idea.,Comments,Thank you for your patience,






