In about 120 -150 words explain the irony in the title of the lesson “The Happy Prince?” [class 9]
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The Happy Prince Summary
Discuss the short story "The Happy Prince" by Oscar Wilde as an moral and a social allegory?
"The Happy Prince" is an allegory for the superficiality of of Victorian England. The bejeweled statue of the prince sits atop a hill, allowing the once wealthy and carefree prince to see poverty and inequality for the first time. Disturbed, he has a swallow deliver all the jewels from his opulent statue to the poor. Though he eventually loses all his jewels, the statue is richer inside for helping the needy. This inner beauty is not appreciated by the people, who tear down the now plain statue, demonstrating society's preoccupation with superficial traits like one's outward appearance and material wealth.
The story "The Happy Prince" is a moral and social allegory in that it places shallowness vs. altruism; idleness vs. sacrifice; and contempt vs. compassion under the perspective of the one person who once was adored by all and now has a statue made after him: The so-called Happy Prince.
Once, when the Prince was alive, he was filled with richness and opulence to the point that, after his death, he was made into a statue of gold leaf and jewels. After the shallow swallow visits him and does the favor of giving one of the statue's rubies to a poor person, the Prince demonstrates that, as he gives more and more of his jewels and disrobes himself from the gold, he gains more for feeding the poor and clothing the needy thanks to the riches in his statue.
Slowly, as the swallow continues to deliver the goods of the statue to the poor of the city, he learns the social imbalance that exists in society, where some have too much and others too little. In the case of Wilde's time, Victorian England was experiencing the same inequity in the slum districts and Oscar's story is a clear allegory and metaphor of the British Social System at the time: Where the rich were filthy rich and the poor starved to death.
In the end, the swallow learns the lesson, the prince is completely run down from the jewels and gold that decorated him and, in accordance to the typical Victorian mentality, he was not worth attention anymore because, as the story says:
"As he is no longer beautiful he is no longer useful,’
Hence, the shallowness of the people ended up with them trying to destroy the statue, the swallow dies next to it, and both go to Heaven where God deems them two beautiful creations just because of being who they are.
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the irony is that when he was alive he was surrounded by happiness but when he died he came to know about the spread misery all around
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