THE SELFISH GIANT ~ OSCAR WILDE~

Prepared by : Group 1 •Pham Van Phi•Nguyen Thi Thu Giang•Phung Thi Tho•Nguyen Thi Hai Yen•Nguyen Thuy Oanh

OUTLINE I. CONTENT & SUMMARY

II.TRANSLATION III. ANALYSIS

1. SOME QUESTIONS2. THE GIANT’S SPYCHOLOGY

3.THE CHILDREN ‘S SPYCHOLOGY AND RHETOGICAL ELEMENTS

4. CONCLUSION

OUTLINE I. CONTENT & SUMMARY

II.TRANSLATION III. ANALYSIS

1. SOME QUESTIONS2. THE GIANT’S SPYCHOLOGY

3.THE CHILDREN ‘S SPYCHOLOGY AND RHETOGICAL ELEMENTS

4. CONCLUSION

I. CONTENT•One of the most beautiful stories written by Oscar

Wilde

• First published in 1888 with other stories “The Nightingale and the Rose”, “The Devoted Friend” , “The Remarkable Rocket” and “The Happy Prince” ....

• It is a short story with the elements of fairy tales and fantasy.

The story is about a

giant who is said to

be very selfish

He had a very beautiful garden

where the children played

when he was away during 7

years.

One summer’s afternoon the giant returned to his garden and saw the children playing in.

and bellowed at them to get out

By his selfishness, a very high wall was built around his garden so that the children

could not go inside to play

All garden was covered by the Snow and the Frost

As spring turned into summer outside the wall, within the giant’s garden it remained winter. No flowers, no bird song and ... no children.

Then one morning the giant awoke to a strange sound:

The sound of birdsong.

He followed the sound to a far corner of the garden, where he found some children playing happily.

In this corner of the garden, just this corner, the birds were singing, and the garden was beautiful again.

He went to work on the wall. Within hours, he had knocked it down

That evening, the garden was filled with the sound of happy children playing. The giant lay back, finally contented. “It is your garden now, little children,”

Then , the next day, the children found him dead covered in blossoms on the ground

The little boy had taken him to paradise and the Giant finally figured out that he should not be selfish after all.

OUTLINE I. CONTENT & SUMMARY

II.TRANSLATION III. ANALYSIS

1. SOME QUESTIONS2. THE GIANT’S SPYCHOLOGY

3.THE CHILDREN ‘S SPYCHOLOGY AND RHETOGICAL ELEMENTS

4. CONCLUSION

OUTLINE I. CONTENT & SUMMARY

II.TRANSLATION III. ANALYSIS

1. SOME GENERAL QUESTIONS2. THE GIANT’S SPYCHOLOGY

3.THE CHILDREN ‘S SPYCHOLOGY AND RHETOGICAL ELEMENTS

4. CONCLUSION

OUTLINE I. CONTENT & SUMMARY

II.TRANSLATION III. ANALYSIS

1. SOME GENERAL QUESTIONS2. THE GIANT’S SPYCHOLOGY

3.THE CHILDREN ‘S SPYCHOLOGY AND RHETOGICAL ELEMENTS

4. CONCLUSION

a.At the beginning of the story : He is a very selfish man

 ‘My own garden is my own garden,’ said the Giant; ‘any one can understand that, and I will allow nobody to play in but myself’.  ”My own garden” is a sentence represent that the garden is his own and he does not allow anyone plays in his garden is an application of his selfishness.

-  ‘’TRESPASSERS WILL BE PROSECUTED’’.-   Forbid the poor children play in his garden is the second proof of his selfishness - It is addressed to whom plays in his garden; they will be prosecuted by The Giant. It is very scream, but it is made intentionally in order to frighten the children.

“He was a selfish giant” This is the author’s statement in order to make sure the readers that the major character of this short story is really selfish.  ‘He is too selfish,’ she said . This sentence was said by the Autumn.She wants to give The Giant a lesson because of his selfishness.

b.After meeting the children.-And the Giant’s heart melted as he looked out, ’How selfish I have been’, he said.

This situation made him realize that he was very selfish person.-  ‘Now, I will know why the spring would not come here. I will put that poor boy on the top of the tree, and then I will knock down the wall and my garden shall be the children’s playground forever and ever’.He realized that he was a selfish person, so he would put the poor boy on the tree’s branch, and also made his garden as the playground of children forever

-   He was really very sorry for what he had done. He was very disappointed of chasing away the poor children from his garden, putting up the notice board written ‘Trespassers Will Prosecuted’, and others. - ‘It is your garden now, little children’, said the Giant.His heart was melted, so he becomes to be kind person

- ‘I have many beautiful flowers,’ he said; ‘but the children are the most beautiful flowers of all’.

 It means that the Giant very loved the children. He had preferred the children than flowers in his garden.

OUTLINE I. CONTENT & SUMMARY

II.TRANSLATION III. ANALYSIS

1. SOME QUESTIONS2. THE GIANT’S SPYCHOLOGY

3.THE CHILDREN ‘S SPYCHOLOGY AND RHETOGICAL ELEMENTS

4. CONCLUSION

3.1 Children ‘s spychology

a. At the beginning of the story

- Children playing in the garden after school

- Children were playing hide, seek and heard a great voice boom out

- Children peered out of their hiding places to see a very angry giant. Children ran away

They enjoy to garden, but very afraid of giant.

b. After the giant knocked down the walls and turned it into children's playground

- When they saw that the Giant was not wicked any longer, they running back

- All day long they played, and in the evening they came to the Giant to bid him good-bye.

The children loved The Giant more.

3.2. A little boy:Two time of meeting between a little boy and the Giant

a. At the first meeting

- The Giant went out into the garden the children saw him they were scare and run away. Only the little boy didn’t run.

- The Giant put him up into the tree. after that little boy stretched out his and kissed him

ÞThe Spring came back: the tree broke at once into blossom, the birds came and sang on it.

This gesture touched the Giant’s heart.

b. At the second meeting

One winter morning, the giant was happy the boy came back when he reached the little boy, the boy's face was red with anger. But the child smiled gently and said to him

“You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is paradise.”

The researcher thinks that paradise as the price of the Giant’s kindness. He did his best effort for the regret of his selfishness, so God appreciated him by giving him paradise and the children as the mediators.

RHETOGICAL ELEMENTS Frequent use of depiction:

“ It was a large lovely garden, with soft green grass.................that the children used to stop their games in order to listen to them.”

Effect: Make the garden appear with the marvelous beauty

RHETOGICAL ELEMENTS Use of the impersonal element:

“The only people who were pleased were the Snow and the Frost...........He was dressed in grey,and his breath was like ice.”

Effect : Make the garden release with the silence.The readers found it painfully sad. “Spring has forgotten this garden, so we will live here all the year round”

OUTLINE I. CONTENT & SUMMARY

II.TRANSLATION III. ANALYSIS

1. SOME QUESTIONS2. THE GIANT’S SPYCHOLOGY

3.THE CHILDREN ‘S SPYCHOLOGY AND RHETOGICAL ELEMENTS

4. CONCLUSION

The story seems to have a sad ending, because the giant dies and the children , who loved him, find him lying dead and covered with flowers in the garden. The part where the giant dies also confirms that he goes to a better place.

The Boy takes him to Paradise.That is his reward for his selfless love.

Oscar Wilde has showed us the way to happiness through true love and selflessness. At last the Giant became happy and his soul was taken to Paradise.

We can also find love and after death we can get to a better place as the Giant had this reward at the end of the story.

It is a quit touching and moral story. -Yes, it is true after reading the story one would be really happy. -The language of the story is quite easy and sentence structure is also classified in simple language.