4. FAIRY TALE
The Happy Prince is purely
a fairytale. It has all the
characteristics of a fairy tale:
Imaginary characters
Far from reality
Happy Ending
6. 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
7. 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
Seamstress
• 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
Playwright
8. 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
9. 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.
But then the swallow never flew away for the winter and dies.
PLOT
10. 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.
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.
PLOT
11. 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.
PLOT
12. THEME
Outward beauty is nothing. It
is just a show. The real
beauties are love and sacrifices.
Love and sacrifice are two
saving forces.
13. 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.
14. 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.
The lesson we got from the story is that every person is not
IMPLICATION
15. 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.
IMPLICATION
