![]() ![]() “She said that she would dance with me if I bring her a red rose, but all in my garden there is no red rose”įurther, the above phrase reveals the inability of the student to understand the materialistic nature of the professor’s daughter who he is in love with. In this prose, The Student is a character who represents all those qualities accepted by the Victorian society.Īt the beginning of the prose, we see The Student as an unpractical young boy who laments for a red rose without making a practical action. ![]() It created a person who has no ability to appreciate aesthetics and nature but they knew just to appreciate the knowledge received by books. ![]() It just produced an imbalanced individual who is full of head knowledge but lacks heart knowledge. This Victorian education failed to produce a balanced individual. By considering head knowledge as the best, they ignored arts and human emotions and they viewed them as cheap. They knew all the facts written in books but they failed to understand the emotions of the human hearts. The civilians of the Victorian society were full of head knowledge but lacks practical knowledge. Oscar Wilde has not used a specific name to this character but used a common name as “The Student” to resemble most of the students of the Victorian society. From the beginning to the end of the story, the student is full of head knowledge but lacks practical intelligence. ![]() In this prose, the character of the student represents the common civilians of the Victorian society. ![]()
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