"Bring the two most previous things in the city". Explain the saying with reference to the story " The Happy Prince"..
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Wilde was a dedicated Christian throughout his life, and religious themes run through “The Happy Prince.” The titular Happy Prince represents a Christlike figure who supports analogous teachings to those of Christian parables. Much like Christ in the Bible, the Happy Prince chooses to sacrifice himself to alleviate the sufferings of the poor and downtrodden. Ultimately, God rewards the Prince in paradise, confirming both the narrative’s religious subtext and the Christian roots of the Happy Prince’s values. Although the intended parallels between the narrative and Christianity lie in its values, the story also portrays other religions using stereotypes. In doing so, religious values in “The Happy Prince” sometimes fall flat. Ultimately, the intended religious influences in this story teach one to value making sacrifices for those who are oppressed by poverty and cannot advocate for themselves.
The story draws clear thematic parallels to biblical teachings, centered on its Christlike central figure. The heroic statue in “The Happy Prince” spends the story sacrificing his beauty to save the citizens of the town from poverty. The statue gives up the ruby from his sword-hilt for the seamstress and one of his sapphire eyes for the playwright, and even gives up his other eye for “a little match-girl” who “has no shoes or stockings” and will be beaten by her father if she comes home with no money.
The Bible includes many examples encouraging great sacrifice—from Jesus giving his life on the cross to an old widow sacrificing her last two coins in Luke’s gospel. In this story, as in the Bible, the wealthy end up greedy and corrupt whereas those living in poverty are industrious and generous. The Christian God himself appears at the end of this story, in fact. He asks one of the angels to bring “the two most precious things in the city,” and says the angel has “rightly chosen” for bringing “the leaden heart and the dead bird,” for “in my garden of Paradise this little bird shall sing for evermore, and in my city of gold the Happy Prince shall praise me.” The Happy Prince receives the gift of eternity in paradise for his sacrifice, which confirms the importance that the narrative places on trying to protect and save people oppressed by poverty.
Despite the altruistic roots of its Christian moral teaching, the story also shows its loyalty to Christianity through its treatment of other religions. Many of the Swallow’s stories about Egypt paint an exoticized picture of the country’s culture and values. He describes how “on a great granite throne sits the God Memnon. All night long he watches the stars, and when the morning star shines he utters one cry of joy, and then he is silent.” He also cites his companions as “building a nest in the Temple of Baalbec.” These references to Egyptian religion do not provide an accurate picture of their faith, but rather some exotic color to situate the story’s town as Western and Christian in contrast.
Even depictions of other religions in the town contain stereotypes. In a short cameo, Wilde describes an arguably anti-Semitic—but certainly stereotypical—scene in Jewish ghetto. The Swallow “passed over the Ghetto, and saw the old Jews bargaining with each other, and weighing out money in copper scales.” The association between Judaism and moneylending has a long history in European literature, and these anti-Semitic stereotypes led to prejudice and violence at various points in history, from the Crusades to the Holocaust.
While the story’s religiosity primarily shines through its moral dedication to combat poverty, there is a darker undercurrent. On the one hand, Wilde presents a parable of Christian teachings of compassion, martyrdom, and care for the oppression of the poor. On the other hand, there is some hypocrisy in the story itself—for a story that condemns judgment, especially appearance-based judgment, the matter of religion remains mired in stereotype. In this case, Wilde’s intended evocations of religion—Christianity, specifically—clash with his treatments of other religions.
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