Oscar Wilde shows the self-development in the prince and in the swallow, too. The story is about a prince, who had lived his life, entertaining his friends and himself, satisfying all his needs, except one – that of his soul. Looking from above, he shows to the reader a town and its citizens – the rich and the poor, and as if he shows two completely different towns and two completely different views of what is valuable. In the tale The Happy Prince the author comments of selfishness, foolishness and vanity of people in one town. Do the other or others characters of the story have intervention in it? In each fairy tale of Oscar Wilde there is such a story and moral that penetrate directly into your soul and spirit and make you think about the real and significant things in life and whether they are the same for every person. The difference between the self at the beginning of the story, and the self in the end, and, mainly, what is the reason for that change.

However, one of the main ideas, and for me the most important, is the development of the characters in the tales – their gradual understanding that the outside beauty is not the most important thing is life, their true repentance for the life they had lived and their will to improve their selves and to truly love somebody. He also reveals the sad and inconvenient truth, that good does not necessarily triumph over evil, especially in a world full of vanity and soulless wealth. He shows in his works that is not necessary for a tale to end with a happy ending, with the including of death as a cost paid for forgiveness in most of his stories.

In his tales the fantastic author teaches about ethical, love, goodness, happiness, the value of the inner charm etc Wilde attempts to show to the world that fairy tales could teach not only kids about moral and human values, however the adults, too. His fairy tales are not the usual fairy tales, written for kids. Oscar Wilde develops fairy tales, hidden before fairy tales, whose target audience can not be categorically identified. With The Delighted Prince and Other Tales, Wilde amazed everyone, as he was comprehended as a subversive author, an amoral individual and an enemy of the Victorian worths.Ĭounter to this understanding, the so called “Teacher of Visual appeals” teaches moral in his fairy tales. This story was titled later on as The Pleased Prince.

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