Oscar Wilde The Selfish Giant

First of both, in order to either agree or disagree with the statement regarding Wildes respect for children we must identify the authors belief in his narrative, The selfish Giant. Since it is through the knotty process of speech that the author reveals his attitudes to what he is talking ab extinct, his relation to his auditor or receiver, and his assumptions more or less the grade level, intelligence, experience, values, and sensitivity of that person. Considering this, Oscar Wilde clearly has a kind and respectful attitude towards his plot and towards the reader of The egotistical Giant.His spectre refers to childhood and the conflicts around it. It perceptible due to the fact that we ar conscious of a voice beyond the voices of the characters that speak in the tale. We recognize the fact that there is a voice behind all the dramatis personae, sluice behind the third-person cashier. This is the sense of a pervasive authorial presence that communicates through the char acters a world view. Consider, for example, the t iodin of the following passages in Wildes The Selfish GiantMy own garden is my own garden, said the Giant each one can understand that, and I will allow nobody to play in it n eertheless myself.Only in the garden of the Selfish Giant it was still winter. The birds did not care to sing in it as there were no children, and the trees forgot to blossom. Once a scenic flower put its head out from the grass, but when it saw the notice-board it was so sorry for the children that it slipped back into the ground again, and went off to sleep.And the Giants heart melted as he looked out. How selfish I have been he said directly I know why the Spring would not come here. I will put that poor belittled boy on the top of the tree, and then I will knock down the wall, and my garden shall be the childrens playground for ever and ever. He was really very sorry for what he had done.Second, the characterization of the protagonist is done by the na rrator and also through the dialogues, which is undoubtedly the briefest and best form of character delineation since a long description of a character asks the reader to believe rather than deduct and not all narrators are veritable either. By contrasting the children and the elephantine, the reader is lead to have a negative perception of the giant and experience with the childrenAfter the seven years were over he had said all that he had to say, for his conversation was limited, and he determined to return to his own castle.What are you doing here? he cried in a very dogged voice, and the children ran away.He was a very selfish Giant.Later on, when the giant and children start to share the homogeneous garden, and the same sapiditys, the giant is described with a different connotationYears went over, and the Giant grew very old and feeble. He could not play about any more, so he sat in a great armchair, and watched the children at their games, and admired his garden. I hav e many beautiful flowers, he said but the children are the most beautiful flowers of all.The characterization of the protagonist follows a development through, which is direct associated with the atmosphere and the tantrum. The changes that take pip inside the giants character and inside the garden are attached to each other.In addition, the action of The Selfish Giant takes fanny almost entirely in the Giants property, inside the house and in the Garden, whose changes are directly related to the plot. The setting plays an important role in the dramatic events. The Garden is essential because it creates a feeling of verisimilitude or realism, since a garden is a known setting for kids. Besides, its not merely a place of action, it is an acting place. It is a thematic space in that it assumes a thematic function, the atmosphere. The actions are shaped and clean predetermined by the nature of the place or setting. The Garden act as a kind of characterization device The giant cha racter feelings step backwards and forge ahead as the garden does, and so it happens the other way around. The Giant comes from an insensitivite and self-isolated state to the discovery of the beauty itself and the beauty of childhood, and also to a self-discovery. Therefore, the garden also follows his changes.When they saw that the Giant was not wicked any longer, came running back, and with them came the Spring. It is your garden now, little children, said the Giant, and he took a great axe and knocked down the wall. And when the people were going to market at twelve oclock they found the Giant playing with the children in the most beautiful garden they had ever seen.Thus, Wilde uses setting and space thematically and symbolically. Most of the events in Wildes Selfish Giant take place inside the garden. Since one of the main themes of the novel is childhood, Wilde contrasts adults and children behavior towards nature and simple things of life by opposing two settings when the un ornamented behaviors are in contrast Inside the giants house, where the nature becomes abnormal, and outside the garden, where nature takes its course without changes.The poor children had now nowhere to play. They tried to play on the road, but the road was very dusty and full of hard-fought stones, and they did not like it. They used to wander round the high wall when their lessons were over, and talk about the beautiful garden inside. How happy we were there, they said to each other.Besides, there are plenty of symbology in the story, starting with the name calling of the characters. There are several fertile words in the story, the words that suggest the most to the reader. Wilde suggests all in a few lines military issueing in a single concentrated impression, as a result of it the narrative moves swiftly. In the tale, the Spring is a humanized character, and so are the Winter, the North Wind, the Hail, the Frost, and the Snow. The phenomena of nature stand for mingled ideas or emotions associated with it.The Giant is a symbol too, he doesnt even have a first name, so that he represents a whole group of people sharing the same idea. In opposite to childrens ideas, he could represent adults, in which connotation, denotation and symbolism combine to form a multiplicity of meanings. Also, by the engagement the characters by the words of giant, The spring, The Winter, and other characters which are not usual in the real world, the narrator intimates that the story is likely to have an atmosphere of a fairy tale (in this case, about the adults world getting in contact with the childrens world), as far as genre is concerned, or at least that the plot involves some magic or unnatural events, more specifically the climate, which reflects the mood of the giant himself.