what was the broken lead ?
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The Happy Prince has a heart made of lead, which breaks when his beloved Swallow dies of the cold. ... Although town officials try to melt the heart down and repurpose it with the rest of the statue, it refuses to melt.
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The Happy Prince has a heart made of lead, which breaks when his beloved Swallow dies of the cold. At first, this lead heart appears to emphasize the superficiality of the Prince’s beauty, though it later comes to symbolize the steadfast nature of love. In the beginning fo the story, the lead heart reveals that the gold decorating the Prince’s outside does not carry through his insides. This advises one to avoid judging by appearances, as they can be deceitful. However, as beauty comes to represent illusion and even corruption or deception itself throughout the story, the ugliness of the lead heart does not prevent it from engendering compassion and goodness—as the Prince himself declares, “though my heart is made of lead yet I cannot choose but weep.” Unlike in many other fairy tales, such as Snow White, Wilde does not support the conventional pairings of beauty with goodness and ugliness with evil. This inversion truly centers on the heart, at once the least objectively valuable and most truly precious part of the Happy Prince.
Although town officials try to melt the heart down and repurpose it with the rest of the statue, it refuses to melt. And when at the end of the story God asks for the two most precious things in the city to be brought to him, the lead heart, although broken, ends up being one of them. The lead heart thus ultimately represents both the steadfastness of true love and the value of compassion. By refusing to melt, the heart also indicates that some things persist beyond one’s own life—that is, that there exist values greater than the sum of a life.