摘要

本文从形式和内容入手，探讨了王尔德《夜莺与玫瑰》童话中的唯美主义体现，从而揭示了王尔德“为艺术而艺术”，“艺术高于一切”的唯美主义价值观。在形式上，分别从修辞、意象入手，分析了童话在文字层面上精巧华丽的美以及作者构造奇幻图画的写作技巧。在内容上，从更深层次的讽刺、象征、人物刻画、死亡与悲剧之美以及二元对立等方面分析，表现了作者强烈的情感，对爱与艺术美的追求，对善的颂扬以及对恶的摈弃，并从中反映了艺术与当时社会现实生活的关系。

关键字：唯美主义，修辞，意象，对立

ABSTRACT

   From the aspects of form and content, this thesis will analyze the embodiment of Aestheticism in Oscar Wilde’s The Nightingale and the Rose, in order to manifest his aesthetic values of “Art for art’s sake” and “Art is superior”. From the aspect of form, the paper argues from rhetoric and image to analyze the writing methods to construct fantastic images and magnificent beauty on the literal level. From the aspect of content, the thesis analyzes from irony, symbol, depiction of characters, beauty of anticlimax and binary antithesis of two specific elements, expressing the authors’ intense emotion, pursuit towards art and beauty, glorification of goodness, and critique towards vice.

Keywords: Aestheticism,  rhetoric,  image,  antithesis

1    Introduction
Oscar Wilde (1854—1900) is a famous dramatist, novelist and poet in the 19th century’s England. He has a great deal of accomplishments in nearly every field of literature. His novel The Portrait of Dorian Gray, comedies Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance as well as The Importance of Being Earnest all created sensation when they were published. With gifts of language, Wilde was once acclaimed by Yeats: “I never before heard a man talking with perfect sentences, as if he had written them all overnight with labour and yet all spontaneous.”
In the 19th century in England, industry developed rapidly. Following the development of industry, the principle of materialism infiltrated into every status of the society. Wilde thought that in the age he lives “to be practical is everything”, in his words: “Present people’s life has been entirely affected by business.” As English female writer Verginia Woolf wrote in her later observation: “Behavior of human-beings have been changed tremendously.”