Question

Write the significance of the characters - the Mayor and the

Town Councillors - in Oscar Wilde’s story ‘The Happy

Prince’. ​

Answer 1

Answer:

Town Councillors : They give compliments on the original appearance of the Happy Prince but call it shabby afterward and eventually destroyed the statue.

Mayor : Although he only appears at the very conclusion of the story, the Mayor's narcissistic attitude epitomizes the problems of power. He wants the Happy Prince melted down and recast in his own image, and he wants to issue a proclamation banning birds from dying in public.