Tiêu đề Notes- The Happy Prince ✅

LL.B Part-I (5 Years Program) Course: English I Course Instructor: Ms. Hafsa Qadir “The Happy Prince’’ is also an allegory1 , great satiric2 piece and fairy tale/ fictional story.  Major Characters: 1. Statue of the Happy Prince (The protagonist/ Main character of the story) 2. The Swallow (who helps the prince)  Minor Characters: 1. The Poor Woman 2. The Young writer 3. Little Match Girl 4. Mayor 5. The Town Councilors Themes: 1. Social Injustice: There is a large gap between rich and poor people, the rulers and the common people. 2. Love and Sacrifice: Love and sacrifice lead us towards God and outward beauty is nothing and the real beauty is to give love and sacrifice. 3. Greed: The town councilors are greedy and passionate with their public images they cannot understand the humanity of dead prince and a little bird but they are too busy in their daily pursuits to increase their money, rank and power. Summary: "The Happy Prince" by Oscar Wilde is a moral, social allegory and typically an English fiction3 . It is a story about the spiritual beauty of the prince and the sacrifice of a little swallow which alters its life for the love of the prince. This story focuses on the statue of the Happy Prince, who watches over a town and weeps as some citizens suffer in poverty. This statue, who at one time, was a real prince. He was happy when alive because he was kept unconscious of any sadness or suffering outside his palace walls. His life was one of joy and fulfilled the desire and then he died. Upon his death, a statue was made depicting him which was covered in gold, had beautiful sapphires for eyes, and a ruby attached to his sword-hilt. Unfortunately for the statue, his placement on a top of a high hill allows him to observe. For the first time, the prince experienced pain and misery of the poor of his city, of whom he had remained ignorant. The statue, who was once happy now weeps with sadness. A swallow arrives to take shelter beneath this statue and eventually becomes touched by the statue's kindness and desire to help others. He becomes the statue's messenger and agrees to remove the jewels and the gold from the Happy Prince to bring happiness and kindness to the common people. 1 As a literary device, an allegory is a metaphor in which a character, place or event is used to deliver a broader message about real-world issues and occurrences. 2 Satire is a technique employed by writers to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society, by using humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule. It intends to improve humanity by criticizing its follies and foibles. 3 Fiction broadly refers to any narrative consisting of imaginary people, events, or descriptions—in other words, a narrative not based strictly on history or fact. Stories of Ourselves: The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde