![]() ![]() At last, Wilde refuses to celebrate beauty if morality is absent and in this way, his aesthetic concerns become rather contradictory. ![]() Moreover, this study asserts that Wilde is aware of the dominant language games, and his application of the technical language game for the Prince, the Nightingale, and the Swallow is in debt to his monolithic morality or his opportunistic character. ![]() Beautifully written modern fairy tales intended for reading to children but with a message for adults, too. His aesthetic views are entangled with morality and he fails to celebrate art for art’s sake. Other short stories by Oscar Wilde also available along with many others by classic and contemporary authors. To him, happiness is defined through a strict sense of Christian morality and Christ-like love and kindness. Wilde asserts that the Victorian mind-set claims that happiness is attainable through accumulating signs of affluence and he ironically mocks this notion of happiness which is entitled to commodified objects. Through a postmodernist outlook, this study postulates the vigorous diatribe of Wilde against the consumer culture which was dominant within Victorian society. This paper circles around two of his tales, The Happy Prince and The Nightingale and the Rose. Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales are not as well-recognised as his novel or his dramatic works. ![]()
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