What kind of a world Oscar Wild creates in"The Happy Prince"?
Ans:
Oscar
wild has created a very beautiful world in the story.It is a world like
fairy tales.Although he wrote this story for the children with a moral
lesson yet it has much importance for the adults also.To convey his
message to his young readers,the winter has created a very beautiful
imaginary
world in it. This is a world where swallows speak.
They can weep on the plight of the living.
We
see in the story that a swallow is going to Egypt because the winter
season has set in Europe. Winter is killing for the tiny birds like
swallows. All the companions of swallow have already flown to Egypt. At
night while flying to his destination he sat on a statue of a happy
prince who is weeping. When asked, the prince tells his story that when
he was alive he was called happy prince because he never knew the cares
and worries of the poor people.
He
passed his whole time in enjoyments but after his death the people made
a statue with gold and other ornaments and fixed it on a high place
where he could see all the miseries of the poor people. But he could not
help them. He requests swallow to take the precious ornaments from his
body to help the needy. Swallow agrees and helps the poor.
The
statue is becoming ugly day by day as all the decoration is being
ripped off to help the poor. On the other hand, swallow is growing weak
day by day as there is cold and nothing to eat. The day comes when
swallow dies and the statue is completely an ugly thing.
The statue
is removed and melted but his heart is made of lead which is not melted
and thrown on a heap of rubbish with the dead body of swallow. God asks
angels to bring the loveliest things from the world and they present the
heart of happy prince and the dead body of swallow. God orders that
happy prince and swallow will remain in the heaven.
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