happy prince
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PRESENTED TO:
MA’AM ALEENA
HAPPY PRINCE
BY
OSCAR WILDE
PRESENTED BY:
Fatima Tariq BSCS(13041519-004)
Ghufran Qamar BSCS(13041519-011) Warda Iftikhar BSCS(13041519-014)
Department of computer scienceUniversity of gujrat (Lahore-campus)
OSCAR WILDE (1854 -1900)
No Great Artist Ever
Sees Things As They
Really Are. If He Did
He Would Cease To Be
An Artist.
(Oscar Wilde)
OSCAR WILDE (1854 -1900)Great Irish Born
Playwright, Novelist, Fictionist, Poet
Newdigate Prize (1878)Berkeley Gold Medal
(1874)
The Happy Prince and Other Stories (1888) The Picture of Dorian
Gray (1890) An Ideal Husband (1895)
FAIRY TALE
The Happy Prince is purely a fairytale. It has all the characteristics of a fairy tale:Imaginary
charactersFar from realityHappy Ending
CHARACTER SKETCH
Minor CharactersThe
Seamstress
The Little Boy
The Playwright
The Little Match-girl
The Beautiful
Angel
Major CharactersThe Happy Prince The Swallow
MAJOR CHARACTERS
• Former ruler who lived happily in palace of Sans-Souci. The palace was surrounded by lofty walls so that sorrows could not enter. The happy Prince did not bothered how people in Sans-Souci were living their lives. After his death, his statue was set up so high that he could see all the ugliness and misery of the city.
The Happy Prince
• Swallow was the bird who worked as a messenger for the statue of Happy Prince. When the statue donated both of his eyes, swallow stayed with him forever, he started loving the statue of the Happy Prince.
The Swallow
OTHER CHARACTERS
• The first poor in the story is the seamstress. She is portrayed as a thin and worn face woman with coarse and red hand. She has a baby and he is lying ill on the bed.He has a fever, and asking for oranges. His mother has nothing to give him but river water, so he is crying.
The Seamstr
ess• The second poor is a young man whose hair
is brown and crisp. His lips are red as a pomegranate and he has large and dreamy eyes. He is trying to finish a play for the Director of the Theater, but he is too cold to write anymore. There is no fire in the grate, and hunger has made him faint.
The Playwrig
ht
OTHER CHARACTERS
• The little match-girl is the third poor. She has to give her father money or she will beat her if she goes home penniless. She has let her matches fall in gutter, and they are all spoiled. Her father will beat her if she doesn’t bring home some money, and she is crying. She has no shoes or stockings, and her little head is bare.
The Little
Match-Girl
• An angel was signed with the task by the God, to bring two most precious things in the city. When he brought the leaden heart and the dead swallow, “You have rightly chosen,” said God. The good deeds of “whomever” and “whatsoever” (Happy Prince and Swallow) must be paid fairly by God.
The Beautiful Angel
PLOT
There is a statue of the Happy Prince in the middle of a
really unhappy town.
A swallow comes to sit on the statue’s plinth. The
swallow sees the happy prince crying and asks him why.
The prince says there is too much sadness in the town
and that the swallow should take all the jewels off the
statue and give them to those who need them.
PLOT
But then the swallow never flew away for the
winter and dies.
Also the greedy mayor of the town doesn't think
the statue is beautiful anymore without the jewels
and orders for the prince to be melted down.
But they find that the prince's lead heart won't
melt so they throw it out.
PLOT
Through out the story, an angel who has been
ordered by God to find the two most precious things
he can find in city and bring them back to him.
The angel brings back the dead swallow and the
lead heart and God is happy and says that the
swallow will now sing in paradise garden
forevermore and the happy prince shall praise me
forever in the city of gold.
THEME
Outward beauty is nothing. It is just a show. The real beauties are love and sacrifices.
Love and sacrifice are two saving forces.
THEME
There is great gap between the rich and the poor, the rulers and the masses.God loves those who love their fellow human beings.
IMPLICATION
The writer wants to tell that the outward
beauty does not meant a lot the real beauty is in
person’s heart which have the deep feelings and the
ability to feel the sorrows and hardships of others
just like the happy prince that he led a happy life but
after his death when he saw people worries he felt
them and helped them as he could do so.
IMPLICATION
The lesson we got from the story is that
every person is not the same as the happy prince is
very rich and live happily but when he saw people’s
hardships even after his death he was worried and
anxious to help them at every possible way and make
it possible by the swallow which was his great deed.
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