PRESENTED TO:

MA’AM ALEENA

HAPPY PRINCE

BY

OSCAR WILDE

PRESENTED BY:

Fatima Tariq BSCS(13041519-004)

Ghufran Qamar BSCS(13041519-011) Warda Iftikhar BSCS(13041519-014)

Department of computer scienceUniversity of gujrat (Lahore-campus)

OSCAR WILDE  (1854 -1900)

No Great Artist Ever

Sees Things As They

Really Are. If He Did

He Would Cease To Be

An Artist.

(Oscar Wilde)

OSCAR WILDE  (1854 -1900)Great Irish Born

Playwright, Novelist, Fictionist, Poet

Newdigate Prize (1878)Berkeley Gold Medal

(1874)

The Happy Prince and Other Stories (1888) The Picture of Dorian

Gray (1890) An Ideal Husband (1895) 

FAIRY TALE

The Happy Prince is purely a fairytale. It has all the characteristics of a fairy tale:Imaginary

charactersFar from realityHappy Ending

CHARACTER SKETCH

Minor CharactersThe

Seamstress

The Little Boy

The Playwright

The Little Match-girl

The Beautiful

Angel

Major CharactersThe Happy Prince The Swallow

MAJOR CHARACTERS

• Former ruler who lived happily in palace of Sans-Souci. The palace was surrounded by lofty walls so that sorrows could not enter. The happy Prince did not bothered how people in Sans-Souci were living their lives. After his death, his statue was set up so high that he could see all the ugliness and misery of the city.

The Happy Prince

• Swallow was the bird who worked as a messenger for the statue of Happy Prince. When the statue donated both of his eyes, swallow stayed with him forever, he started loving the statue of the Happy Prince.

The Swallow

OTHER CHARACTERS

• The first poor in the story is the seamstress. She is portrayed as a thin and worn face woman with coarse and red hand. She has a baby and he is lying ill on the bed.He has a fever, and asking for oranges. His mother has nothing to give him but river water, so he is crying.

The Seamstr

ess• The second poor is a young man whose hair

is brown and crisp. His lips are red as a pomegranate and he has large and dreamy eyes. He is trying to finish a play for the Director of the Theater, but he is too cold to write anymore. There is no fire in the grate, and hunger has made him faint.

The Playwrig

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OTHER CHARACTERS

• The little match-girl is the third poor. She has to give her father money or she will beat her if she goes home penniless. She has let her matches fall in gutter, and they are all spoiled. Her father will beat her if she doesn’t bring home some money, and she is crying. She has no shoes or stockings, and her little head is bare.

The Little

Match-Girl

• An angel was signed with the task by the God, to bring two most precious things in the city. When he brought the leaden heart and the dead swallow, “You have rightly chosen,” said God. The good deeds of “whomever” and “whatsoever” (Happy Prince and Swallow) must be paid fairly by God.

The Beautiful Angel

PLOT

There is a statue of the Happy Prince in the middle of a

really unhappy town. 

A swallow comes to sit on the statue’s plinth. The

swallow sees the happy prince crying and asks him why.

 The prince says there is too much sadness in the town

and that the swallow should take all the jewels off the

statue and give them to those who need them.

PLOT

But then the swallow never flew away for the

winter and dies.

Also the greedy mayor of the town doesn't think

the statue is beautiful anymore without the jewels

and orders for the prince to be melted down.

But they find that the prince's lead heart won't

melt so they throw it out.

PLOT

Through out the story, an angel who has been

ordered by God to find the two most precious things

he can find in city and bring them back to him.

 The angel brings back the dead swallow and the

lead heart and God is happy and says that the

swallow will now sing in paradise garden

forevermore and the happy prince shall praise me

forever in the city of gold.

THEME

Outward beauty is nothing. It is just a show. The real beauties are love and sacrifices.

Love and sacrifice are two saving forces.

THEME

There is great gap between the rich and the poor, the rulers and the masses.God loves those who love their fellow human beings.

IMPLICATION

The writer wants to tell that the outward

beauty does not meant a lot the real beauty is in

person’s heart which have the deep feelings and the

ability to feel the sorrows and hardships of others

just like the happy prince that he led a happy life but

after his death when he saw people worries he felt

them and helped them as he could do so.

IMPLICATION

The lesson we got from the story is that

every person is not the same as the happy prince is

very rich and live happily but when he saw people’s

hardships even after his death he was worried and

anxious to help them at every possible way and make

it possible by the swallow which was his great deed.

QUESTIONS????