Question

character sketching of happy prince and relationship of happy prince and swallow

Answer 1

The story “Happy Prince” is an allegory which represents the social class system of the Victorian society. it is about the wealth that the upper class of the society possessed and the poverty to which the poor people went through. The themes like social injustice, the redemptive power of love, and the loss of innocence are prevalent in the story. The story is about a Prince who never saw the sadness in his life. His life was full of joys and happiness and all his desires were fulfilled. After his death, a statue was made in which expensive jewelry and costumes were built upon. Everyone who has a look at the statue remarked that it is beautiful but is a useless piece of work. The statue felt very sad to see that the people were falling sort of every menial requirement in their life. A swallow became the messenger of the kindness of the statue which provided him shelter. He agreed to remove the jewelry from the statue in order to bring financial aid and relief to the people. This is a piece of allegory in which the characters are a representation of the people from the history. The swallow can be seen as Socialism who is willing to believe necessities to everyone so as to bring equality

Describe the friendship between the prince and the swallow.

Both the swallow and the Happy Prince, who is now a statue, share compassion for the poor, and this becomes the basis of their friendship.
The swallow plans to spend one night sleeping on the Happy Prince statue before heading off to Egypt to meet his fellow swallows. However, when the Happy Prince's tears fall on him, the swallow gets into a conversation with him. He learns the prince is unhappy because of the suffering and poverty that he witnesses in the city--when alive, he had been sheltered from knowledge of this pain. He asks the swallow to help him tend to the poor.

Answer 2

Answer:

★ The Characteristics of Happy Prince are as follows :

• Happy Prince was a statue.

• He had a Ruby on his sword .

• His body was covered with gold .

• His eyes were made up of sapphires.

• He stood very high .

• So , he saw ugliness and misery of the whole Town.

• His heart was made of lead . Yet it melted sight of so much misery .

• He give away is everything to poor person.

• By these he brought some joy in their lives.

• The Prince was affectionate.

• He could not stand death of his dear little swallow .

• His leaden heart broke into two pieces on this occasion.  

★ Main points of the story :

The Prince in the story is not a living Prince.

The Happy Prince in the story is a statue of a dead Prince decorated with gold leaves and precious stones .

The smile on his lips gradually give way to tears.

The Prince cannot help the people crying over of misery in the houses of the poor .

He decides to help them with his gold leaves and precious Stoppers sapphires and Ruby .

The little fellow acts as his messenger and he gives away all his wealth sapphires , Rabi and gold leaves .

The swallow was actually on his back to his Homeland when the princess detained him to help the poor.

He always wished to go back but now it was too late.

The intense cold killed the swallow was the little swallow lost his life in helping the poor.