The Happy Prince

Oscar Wilde, an English writer, is well-known for his fairy tales. His style was considered as a way to satisfy his love passion, as homosexuality was not only looked down upon but illegal in the latter half of the century. The Happy Prince, one of his collections, was published in 1888. The title of the story is an irony, as whoever living on the earth, have also experienced sufferings, so there are no completely happiness. According to the relationship between The Happy Prince and the little Swallow, the readers realize a union between two spirits. Moreover, both of them find out a real happiness when they compassion and sympathy for the poor.

The statue of the Happy Prince is beautiful but not useful. A golden statue of the Happy Prince stood in the middle of the square in the centre of a big town. People very often passed by the statue and stopped, and thought that he was the only figure in the town to have a happy face. Sometimes they admired his smile, sometimes they were jealous of it; and they wished they were as happy as the Happy Prince was. When he was alive, he lived in a palace, and he never shed tears or feels sorrow. He was isolated from the less fortunate in the society, and “So he lived, and he died” without knowing what real happiness was. After becoming a statue, he stood in the high place where he could see the poor with their hunger, their suffering versus with his luxury. In fact, being alive or died, he didn’t also do any useful things.

Running across The Happy Prince, the little Swallow is deeply moved by all the Happy Prince’s charitable actions. He got rid of his loving with a coquettish reed to travel to Egypt; and that is his favorite journey. However, in the moonlight, his heart stirred by