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Plot

Climax

Setting

  • Swallow and Happy Prince sacrifice and help others

Exposition

Denouement

  • Town councillors talk about the statue
  • Story of the Happy Prince is told
  • Swallow is introduced
  • Story of Swallow and Reed
  • Swallow arrives in town
  • They both sacrificed themselves
  • God wanted the most precious things

--> Swallow and Happy Prince

  • They live happily ever after in God's garden

A city in Ireland

Complication

  • Guilt (Happy Prince)
  • Cold (Swallow)

Late 19th century

The Theme

  • First theme:

Beauty on the outside = just a show

--> Real beauty: love and sacrifice

  • Second theme:

Love & sacrifice are saving forces

  • Third theme:

Gap between the rich and the poor

all kinds of love should be celebrated & must continue forever

Dialogue

Language

  • Sad conversations: weeping, crying...

  • A lot of conversations:

- The Happy Prince and the Swallow

- The Swallow and Reed

- The Swallow and his friends

- Conversations about the rich & the poor

  • Direct speech

  • "Swallow, Swallow, little Swallow"

Story

  • Standard English

  • No difficult words

  • No alliteration, rhyme or assonance

  • Long sentences

--> only short ones in the conversations

  • Emotional undertone in words, adjectives...

Characters

The Happy Prince

  • Statue made of gold and diamonds
  • Stands on tower
  • Happy: He was happy his whole life
  • On tower he saw misery for 1st time
  • Stream of consciousness --> sacrifices

Supporting characters

  • Flat characters

  • Town concillors
  • Sensible mother
  • Swallow's friends
  • Poor children
  • ...

≠ limited cast

Swallow

Main characters

  • Love and empathy --> Happy Prince
  • Selfish
  • Learns what it is to sacrifice
  • Round characters

  • Happy Prince
  • Swallow

Method of narration

  • Narrator outside the story

  • Omniscient narrator:

- actions of the characters

- look of the characters

- feelings of the characters

--> panoramic view

  • Anonymous omniscient narrator

--> describing events with adverbs

  • Reliable narrator
  • °16/10/1854 in Dublin

  • Poet and author

--> "The Picture of Dorian Grey

  • Imprisoned for 2 years

  • Died in poverty in Paris

  • Homosexuality

--> undertone in stories

Oscar Wilde

The Happy Prince

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