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The happy prince The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde Setting 01 Plot 02 Major and minor characters 03 Themes 04 Moral lessons 05 Languages 06 Table of contents Setting 01 01 Setting • High above the city,[.]

The Happy Prince

by Oscar Wilde

Setting01

• High above the city, the river, at the city, in the winter, between the feet of the Happy Prince, in the Palace of

Sans-Souci

• Six week after the Swallow’s friends move to Egypt, last summer

1 Time and Place

2 Occupation and daily manner• The Happy Prince: He is a statue He was so happy and perfect

• The Swallow: He is a bird and he juat wants to travel and explone

• Town’s councillor and The Mayor: Both of them decide that the statue is no longer beautiful and destroy it

• The Happy Prince: Even though he was a statue, he still has good thought to help others, so he asks the Swallow

to become his messenger

• The Swallow: He is a kind-hearted bird, he wants to be the messenger because he can’t bear seeing the prince was crying

3 Emotional Conditions and Attidudes

02

1 Exposition

• There was a prince, he had everything is his life He had not seen any sorrows The Prince is determined to help people in any way he could

2 Complication/ Rising Action

• There were so many miseries but the Prince couldn’t do anything because he was dead and now he lived in a his statue

• There was the Swallow that became his messenger to help people

• After all the jewelries that came from the statue run out, its people thought that the statue is no longer beautiful.

• The Swallow died because of the weather and the statue of the Happy Prince is melted down by The Mayor and

• The Angel brought back the dead Swallow and the lead

heart of The Happy Prince, God was happy and said that the Swallow now can sing in paradise garden forevermore and the Happy Prince shall praise forever in the city of gold

Major and

minor characters

03

1 The Happy Prince: the main character in story

 He used to live in a place

until he dies

“I lived in a place where

there was no sadness”

 He used to live in a place until he dies.

“I lived in a place where

there was no sadness”

 A statue of himself is built and

placed on a tall column high

above the city, where he can see all the ugliness and misery of my city, where he can see all the

ugliness and misery of his city

“ So live, and so I died And now that I am dead they have set me

up here so high that I can see al the ugliness and all the misery of

my city, and though my heart is made of lead yet I cannot chose but weep.”

 The Prince looking for humanity and sacrificing his life to allevate their pain.

"Far away," continued the statue in a low musical voice, "far away in a little street there is a poor house One of the

windows is open, and through it I can see a woman seated at

a table Her face is thin and worn, and she has coarse, red hands, all pricked by the needle, for she is a seamstress She

is embroidering passion-flowers on a satin gown for the

loveliest of the Queen's maids-of-honour to wear at the next Court-ball, In a bed in the corner of the room her little boy is lying ill He has a fever, and is asking for oranges His mother has nothing to give him but river water, so he is crying

Swallow, Swallow, little Swallow, will you not bring her the

ruby out of my sword-hilt? My feet are fastened to this

pedestal and I cannot move."

 He is a bird on his way to Egypt for the

winter His trip is dellayed becuse of his

temporary passion for a Reed,

foreshadowing to the thematic

importance of love in this story

 “One night there flew over the city a

little Swallow His friends had gone

away to Egypt six weeks before, but he

had stayed behind, for he was in love

with the most beautiful Reed He had

met her early in the spring as he was

flying down the river after a big yellow

moth, and had been so attracted by her

slender waist that he had stopped to

talk to her”

2 The Swallow: the 2nd protagonist of this story

 He is a polite bird.

"What! is he not solid gold?" said the Swallow

to himself He was too polite to make any personal remarks out loud

 He is the prince's messenger

"but I will stay with you for one night, and be

your messenger."

1 The Reed:

She decides not to

accompany the swallow, who

has been courting her,

breaking his heart She is too

close to her home and

cannot bear the thought of

leaving thus the swallows

courtship was in vain

The Minor Characters in the story:

2 The Town Councilors:

They are greedy and

obsessed with their public images they cannot

understand the humanity of dead prince and of a little bird but they are too busy in their daily pursuits to

increase their money, rank and power

3 The Poor Woman: Her son

is ill She struggles as a

seamstress to make enough money to take care of him She receives that ruby from the hit of the prince sword

4 The Young Playwright: He

is starving and struggling to complete a play but he is unable to concentrate

because his he is so hungry

He receives the frost

sapphire eye

5 Little Match Girl: She

drops the matches that she

is supposed to sell, and is crying because she knows that she will be beaten by her father when she will

return to home without the matches or any money She receives sapphire eye

6 The Mayor: He orders that the statue must be turn

down He wants the metal to

be made into the statue of himself

04

1 Love: The compassion of the statue for other people

and the bird's swallow depicts great sensitive feelings The prince gives away everything to help people, and the

swallow and prince share a fantastic love bond

2 Sacrifice: While the prince gives away his ruby, eyes

and gold leaves, the little swallow sacrifices his life to

serve humanity The bird did not reach Egypt to meet its companions, instead stayed with the prince in harsh cold weather and at last died at the feet of the statue

3 Appearances can be deceptive: This story has

a great lesson to teach as it portrays a statue

coated in gold but basically it is made up of lead The appearance was grand but when all gold

coating came off, the statue looked ugly Another thing associated with it is that the prince was

happy when he was alive and enjoyed his wealth but the time he saw human beings suffering, he was saddened by the poverty and pain around him

4 Exploitation and hypocrisy of the ruling class of society:

This theme is vibrant in the story as the Mayor and his

members of office judged the statue and chose to pull it down as they thought it looked ugly Also, the happy

prince lived in his palace not knowing the misery of

human beings as he never bothered to look beyond the

huge walls of his palace The rich live lavishly and the poor are not treated well

5 True Friendship: The prince in the story shares a great bond of friendship and respect with the little swallow

Whatever the prince commands, the swallow follows the orders religiously The friendship they had was so true and loyal that they were put in heaven together

Moral lessons

05

1 There will be good rewards for those who feel for the poor and make sacrifices to remove

miseries and sufferings of other people

2 The outward beauty doesn't meant a lot, the real beauty is in the person's heart which have the deep feelings and the ability to feel the

sorrow and hardship of other

Languages06

 Use of Simile:

In simile one object is likened to the other to enrich an image Simile:

His hands are like withered leaves

"He looks just like an angel,"

 Personification

the writer personified the statue of happy prince and swallow, as living human beings major and councilor symbolize the hypocrisy of Victorian age They talk with each other like human because they feed the misery of living Creature which human being is ignoring

 Alliteration: the repetition of the beginning sounds of neighboring words

Swallow, Swallow, little Swallow, will you not bring her the ruby out of my sword-hilt?

 Symbolic Title

This story also has symbolic title, the title of the story is

"The Happy Prince" but inwardly he is not happy He feels sorrow, pity for the common people so, he is not happy as title is symbolic

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