At the story's beginning, the townspeople judge the Prince to be a good statue because he looks like he is made of gold and adorned with jewels. However, the townspeople regard the Prince as ugly once he has lost all his decadent ornaments. Wilde portrays the townspeople as shallow because they judge people, or statues, based on their outward appearances. This depiction presents the following moral: judge people based on the kindness of their actions. The portrayal of the disparity between poverty and wealth in ''The Happy Prince'' is constant. The life of the Prince starts with riches, and he believes he is happy because he is only familiar with happiness and beauty and has never experienced or witnessed the concept of poverty, hunger, or sorrow growing up in the Palace of Sans-Souci (Palace Without Worries). He dies (how or at what age is not stated) but becomes a statue that the townspeople honor for its happy smile, beauty, and expensive gold and jewels. While a statue, the Prince can finally see what poverty and desolation look like in the town, which makes him sad. After giving away his riches with the help of Swallow, he is considered poor and ugly and experiences unjust treatment. However, in the end, God judges both the Prince and the Swallow 10. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL IN THR FAIRY TALES OF Hans CHIRISTIAN ANDERSEN - Kids, naturally, have no problem with this (in my experience, anyway), and I can’t imagine Minnie growing up without me reading her some of the most famous fairytales – thanks to Disney, she’s already made a start on Beauty and the Beast and Cinderella, not to mention Frozen which is (very loosely) based on The Snow Queen.
- We started with The Snow Queen as I knew she’s like the Hans Christian Andersen Frozen connection so thought it might be a good first story.
- In retrospect, perhaps not! There’s a lot more to it than I remember from evil hobgoblins to cursed mirrors and shards of glass transforming good people into bad long before the Queen makes an appearance.
- Though primarily marketed at children, Andersen’s stories commonly feature characters who present lessons of kindness and resilience for an older audience. Indeed, tales such as The Snow Queen (1844) and The Little Match Girl (1845) feature characters who experience cruelty and suffer deeply, while The Ugly Duckling (1843) is thought to offer a rare insight into Andersen’s own difficult experiences as a child.
- Celebrated in his lifetime, Andersen’s 156 stories across 9 volumes have been translated into more than 125 languages and continue to inspire ballets, plays and films.
- Here’s a breakdown of 10 of Hans Christian Andersen’s most famous fairy tales.
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