Themes
What is a shared theme among all three stories?
What is disillusionment?
In The Nightingale and the Rose, what does the rose symbolize?
What is love or sacrifice?
Who sacrifices their life for the student in The Nightingale and the Rose?
Who is the nightingale?
Where does the nightingale find the rose tree?
What is in the student’s garden?
What is one similarity between the hunger artist and the nightingale?
What is both make sacrifices that are unappreciated?
In The Nightingale and the Rose, what does the nightingale’s sacrifice represent?
What is true love?
What does the hunger artist’s cage symbolize?
What is isolation or societal misunderstanding?
What motivates the hunger artist to fast?
What is the pursuit of artistic perfection?
Why does the hunger artist join the circus?
What is because his popularity faded and he sought new audiences?
How does disillusionment affect the boy in Araby differently than the hunger artist?
What is the boy learns from it, while the hunger artist remains fixated on his ideal?
How does A Hunger Artist explore the theme of artistic integrity?
What is the hunger artist’s obsession with unattainable perfection?
In Araby, what does the darkness at the bazaar symbolize?
What is disillusionment or the loss of idealism?
What does the boy in Araby hope to bring back from the bazaar?
What is a gift for the girl he admires?
What delays the boy from arriving at the bazaar in Araby?
What is family obligations and his uncle’s lateness?
Which story uses light and darkness as symbols?
What is Araby?
In Araby, what does the boy realize about his romantic ideals?
What is they are unrealistic or unattainable?
Compare the rose and the hunger artist’s cage as symbols.
What is they both represent devotion to an ideal, but one is positive, and the other is isolating?
How does the student in The Nightingale and the Rose react to the rose?
What is he rejects it as useless?
How does the bazaar differ from the boy’s expectations?
What is it is mundane and nearly closed?
How is the reaction of the shopkeeper in Araby similar to the audience’s reaction in A Hunger Artist?
What is both are indifferent to the protagonist’s efforts?
How does the theme of sacrifice differ between The Nightingale and the Rose and A Hunger Artist?
What is the nightingale sacrifices for love, while the hunger artist sacrifices for art?
How does the bazaar in Araby reflect the boy’s emotional journey?
What is it mirrors his shift from romanticized dreams to disappointment?
What revelation does the hunger artist have before his death?
What is he fasted because he never found food he liked?
How does the nightingale create the red rose?
What is by pressing her breast against a thorn and singing until she dies?
How does Wilde’s portrayal of sacrifice in The Nightingale and the Rose differ from Kafka’s in A Hunger Artist?
What is Wilde portrays it as noble, while Kafka portrays it as isolating?