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The Happy Prince
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"The Happy Prince" is a fairy tale by Oscar Wilde about a romantic swallow and the statue of a prince, who, after spending all his life in luxury, is turned into a statue who watches all the misery outside his palace.It's currently in public domain, and can be read in full here. | |
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| The Happy Prince / int_1e7c47ab | type |
Stealth Pun | |
| The Happy Prince / int_1e7c47ab | comment |
Stealth Pun: The description of the reed, which is full of double entendres about plants. | |
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| The Happy Prince / int_23781532 | type |
Ironic Name | |
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Ironic Name: | |
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| The Happy Prince / int_29d26001 | type |
Spoiled Sweet | |
| The Happy Prince / int_29d26001 | comment |
Spoiled Sweet: A rare male example. The Happy Prince's back story is that he was an absolutely happy person who knew no sadness and hardship. Meanwhile, he was also a genuinely kind person and retained his kindness even after death. | |
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Humans Are Flawed | |
| The Happy Prince / int_32e279c4 | comment |
Humans Are Flawed: Given Wilde's sarcastic tone seen in the descriptions of the human characters. The people the Prince and Swallow help are at least grateful for their Mysterious Benefactor giving them means to survive with, but there are also many townsfolk who aren't so kind. Also provoked in the end where the humans do not acknowledge the Happy Prince's sacrifices and see him as an old, ugly statue decorated with a dead swallow, all while the readers know what's really going on. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
| The Happy Prince / int_40cc0c7e | comment |
Bittersweet Ending: Ultimately, the Swallow never rejoins its flock and dies from the cold, and the Prince's gifts go unnoticed by the rest of the village. Both are disposed of once they see the Prince's now-shabby state, but God sends His angels to retrieve their remains and welcome them into the kingdom of Heaven. | |
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Tears from a Stone | |
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Tears from a Stone: The Happy Prince is a statue, but on the first meeting with the Swallow he apparently cries to the point where his tears awaken the bird. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
| The Happy Prince / int_6439de78 | comment |
Heroic Sacrifice: The Happy Prince sacrifices his sapphire eyes and all the gold leaves he is covered with. The Swallow helps him delivering them until he dies, as he can't stand the cold weather. And nobody finds them of any value afterward. | |
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| The Happy Prince / int_8485d41a | type |
Interspecies Romance | |
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Interspecies Romance: The swallow is in love with a reed plant early in the story. | |
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| The Happy Prince / int_849d24d9 | type |
Last Kiss | |
| The Happy Prince / int_849d24d9 | comment |
Last Kiss: Just before the Swallow dies, the Prince, thinking the former is just leaving for Egypt, asks it to kiss him on the lips before it goes. The Swallow obliges, and promptly drops down dead at his feet. | |
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| The Happy Prince / int_887da4ea | type |
Died Happily Ever After | |
| The Happy Prince / int_887da4ea | comment |
Died Happily Ever After: "For in my garden of Paradise this little bird shall sing for evermore, and in my city of gold the Happy Prince shall praise me." | |
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| The Happy Prince / int_a68421bb | type |
Animated Adaptation | |
| The Happy Prince / int_a68421bb | comment |
Animated Adaptation: Sad enough to scar your childhood, featuring Glynnis Johns and Christopher Plummer. Available here. | |
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| The Happy Prince / int_b51128fa | type |
Gilded Cage | |
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Gilded Cage: The Prince more or less lived in one of these when alive, since he wasn't even allowed to experience sadness and felt shocked when he looked onto the town as a statue and saw mostly poverty and misery. | |
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| The Happy Prince / int_b53077b3 | type |
Take That! | |
| The Happy Prince / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: Toward human teachers, philosophers, and those who are attached to logic and judge things by the covers. | |
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| The Happy Prince / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| The Happy Prince / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: One of the villagers the Prince commands the Swallow to help is a little match-girl who hasn't sold any of her wares, often gets beaten if she doesn't return with profit, and is working in the middle of a harsh winter. | |
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| The Happy Prince / int_d7a5fa23 | type |
Symbolically Broken Object | |
| The Happy Prince / int_d7a5fa23 | comment |
Symbolically Broken Object: The Happy Prince's heart of lead breaks with a loud crack at the same moment that the swallow dies. | |
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| The Happy Prince / int_e21faf11 | type |
Friend to All Living Things | |
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Friend to All Living Things: Happy Prince oversees humans suffering and sympathizes for them all. | |
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| The Happy Prince / int_f0fe7e80 | type |
But Now I Must Go | |
| The Happy Prince / int_f0fe7e80 | comment |
But Now I Must Go: Subverted. The Swallow repeatedly warns the Happy Prince that it needs to leave for Egypt and return to its flock, but the Prince doesn't let the Swallow go despite the latter's pleas. He does eventually allow the bird to leave after his last eye had been gifted away, but the Swallow offers to stay because it felt guilty about the Prince being unable to see anymore. | |
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| The Happy Prince / int_fb8e9cf4 | type |
Samaritan Syndrome | |
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Samaritan Syndrome: The Happy Prince can't abide seeing people in misery when he can sacrifice the precious jewels and metals he's made of to help them get out of their poverty. Likewise, the Swallow insists on getting back en route to Egypt to join the rest of its flock, but seeing the Prince's sorrow over the village people makes it stay to do as the Prince commands. And when both of the Prince's eyes are gifted away, the Swallow remains to tell the statue stories and deliver the gold leaf from his body. | |
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Children's Literature / int_b141de65 | |
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Died Happily Ever After / int_b141de65 | |
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Living Statue / int_b141de65 | |
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Short Story / int_b141de65 | |
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Symbolically Broken Object / int_b141de65 |
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