The Happy Prince Presentation Slides

1. The Happy
Prince
By Oscar
Wilde

2. A Presentation By:
Ziad Tariq 19101001-022
Samran Qaiser 19101001-048
Daud Javed 19101001-033
Zubair Shahid 19101001-024

3. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an
artist” ~ (OscarWilde)
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet
and playwright.
After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s,
the early 1890s saw him become one of the most
popular playwrights in London

4. Genre: Fairytale
The Happy Prince is Purely a fairytale as it has all the
characteristics of a fairytale which are:
 It has imaginary characters
 It is far from reality
 It has a happy ending

5. Characters
 The Happy Prince
 The Swallow
 The Seamstress
 The Little Boy
 The Playwright
 The Little Match-girl
 The Angels

6. Major Characters
The Happy Prince:
Former Ruler whole lived happily in the palace of Sans-souci. The palace was
surrounded by lofty walls so that sorrows could not enter. The happy prince did
not bothered how the 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 his city
The Swallow:
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 and started to love the statue of the Happy Prince

7. Minor Characters
The Seamstress:
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 Playwright:
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 and hunger made him faint.

8. Minor Characters Continued
The Little Match Girl:
The little match girl is the third poor. She has to give her father money or he will
beat her if she goes home penniless. She had let her matches fall in the gutter.
She was crying as she had no shoes or stockings and her little head was bare.
The Angels:
The Angels was signed with the task by the God to bring two most precious things
from San-souci. They brought the metal heart and the dead swallow, ” You have
rightly chosen,” said God.

9. Themes
 Outward Beauty is nothing. It is just a show. The real beauties are
love and sacrifices.
 Love and sacrifice are two saving forces.
 There is a great gap between the rich and the poor,
the rulers and the masses.
 God loves those who love their fellow Human beings
 The worst aspects of modern society can be overcome
by love and charity, which have the unique ability
to unite men and make them whole.