Wilde also teaches the benefits of being generous by the prince becoming happy again after giving all of these materials that are literally a part of himself away, and by having the prince find love with the swallow. Through these stories, Wilde teaches lessons on the values of having sympathy for others, generosity, and overall kindness.īeginning with “The Happy Prince”, Wilde teaches generosity by breaking down the happy prince’s statue from all of his glorified appearance and giving those pieces (jewels, gold, etc.) to whoever the prince could see struggling. This makes it impossible to put too much onto one page and, in turn, hold attention and prevent a wandering mind. The book also has fairly large print for its pages. I specify that the book is for children because it is small in size and has a very attractive cover that easily captures the attention of others. He died in Paris in ignominy in 1900.In Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince and other Fairy Stories, Wilde is aiming to teach children of christian morals and values. He was released from prison in 1897 and went into an immediate self-imposed exile on the Continent. As a result of this experience he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Wilde lost the case and two trials later was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for acts of gross indecency. In 1895, when his success as a dramatist was at its height, Wilde brought an unsuccessful libel action against Douglas's father, the Marquess of Queensberry.
In 1891 Wilde had met and fallen extravagantly in love with Lord Alfred Douglas. However, his three volumes of short fiction, The Happy Prince (1888), Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (1891) and A House of Pomegranates (1891), together with his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), gradually won him a reputation as a modern writer with an original talent, a reputation confirmed and enhanced by the phenomenal success of his Society Comedies - Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, all performed on the West End stage between 18. After his marriage to Constance Lloyd in 1884, he tried to establish himself as a writer, but with little initial success. He went to Trinity College, Dublin and then to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he began to propagandize the new Aesthetic (or 'Art for Art's Sake') Movement.ĭespite winning a first and the Newdigate Prize for Poetry, Wilde failed to obtain an Oxford scholarship, and was forced to earn a living by lecturing and writing for periodicals. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854.
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