书评及读后感

Generally speaking, fairy tales are composed only for children while Wilde’s stories aren’t suitable for them, since their world is supposed to be pure and wonderful, filled with stories about the happy life of the princes and the princesses. On the contrary, many half-children are touched by it, having seen through the vicissitudes of life in the process of growing, whose innocence gradually vanished. The Happy Prince lives a worry-free and carefree life before he departs from this life. Ultimately, he is made into a statue towering over the city. His body is covered with a thin layer of gold film, his eyes are made of bright sapphires, and the hilt is also covered with a shiny glowing huge ruby. However, when he sees all the ugly and poor in his city, he pleases a little swallow to help poor people in the city。 Happy indeed I was, if pleasure be happiness. So I lived, and so I died. And now that I am dead they have set me up here so high that I can see all the ugliness and all the misery of my city, and though my heart is made of lead yet I cannot choose but weep.” This speaking of the happy Prince deserves thinking. What is happiness and what is pleasure? The happy Prince and the swallow give their most precious things, in order to send those poor people health, happiness and well-being, showing a quite high spiritual realm. His spirituality was imprisoned in a tall ivory tower, and he never touches things outside. It certainly will not hurt him, but he can no longer taste vicissitudes and understand the complexity and diversity of humanity. Bathed in sensation, I understand the truth: giving produces happiness all the time! According to those poignant and moving stories, self-sacrifice for love and art, humanity and hope are the themes of his fairy tales all the time.