The Happy Prince Summary
Standing high above a city is a statue of the Happy Prince. The beautiful statue has the eyes of a sapphire, covered with thin leaves of fine gold, and a large ruby on the hilt of his sword.
One night, a swallow leaves Egypt to join his friends and flees the city. Tired of drifting all day, he wonders where he can rest for the night. He sees the statue of the Happy Prince and decides to rest between the feet of the statue. Pleased with his beautiful place of rest, he prepares to sleep. Then, a big drop of water falls on it. He looks up at the sky but sees that it is clear about the rain clouds. However, drops of water keep falling on it. Swallow looks at the statue and realizes that his eyes are full of tears. He is filled with pity.
Swallow asks Pratima who she is and Pratima says that she is the Happy Prince. Swallow asks him why he is crying. The prince says that while he was alive and had a human heart, he did not know what was the misery as he was not allowed to enter his palace. He lived and died in happiness. After he died, his courtiers placed his statue on top of the city, from where he could see his ugliness and plight. Even though his heart is made of lead, he cannot help but cry.
The Happy Prince states that a little farther on the road is a poor man's house. Through its window, he can see a woman sitting at a table. Her hands are red, thick and prickly because she is a friend. She is embroidered with flowers on the most beautiful gown to honor the queen, wearing a court ball. A comic has a bed on which he has a little boy who is ill with fever. He asks his mother for oranges; But as he has nothing but river water, the boy is crying. He asks to take Manik with his sword and give it to the woman to swallow.
The sad face of the Happy Prince is swallowed and he agrees. He expels Manik with a sword and falls over the city, into the church and the rear of the palace. He sees a beautiful girl come to the palace balcony with her lover. Swallow overhears her saying that she hopes her gown with embroidered flowers is ready for the ball. She comments that seamstresses are lazy.
When Swallow arrives at the woman's house, he finds that the boy is bedridden with fever and the woman is tired and asleep. He places Ruby on the table near the woman's snout and, upon going out, looks at the boy's forehead with his wings. The boy immediately feels better and falls asleep. Swallow goes back to the prince and comments that despite the cold weather, he feels warm enough. Rajkumar says that it is because he has done a good job. The swallow falls asleep.
The next day, Swallow goes for a bath in the river. Happy with the prospect of going to Egypt that night, he visits all the monuments in the city. At the moonrise, he goes to the prince and announces that he is leaving for Egypt. The Happy Prince tells a distant swallow in the city, he sees a young man in a paper, leaning on a desk covered with papers. There is a bunch of blossomed flowers in the glass of his desk. The man is trying to complete writing a play for the director of the theater, but he is too cold and hungry to write now. Swallow offers to stay one more night to help. The prince tells Swallow to take the idol out of his sapphire's eyes to the man. The man can then sell the sapphire to the jeweler and buy some firewood to keep warm. The temptation is sad to burst the prince's eye, but as he is told.
Swallow flees to the man's house and enters through a hole in the roof. The man is resting with his head in his hands and not listening to the bird. When the man looks up, he finds Sapphire among a withered violet. He thinks that some fans have left it for him and is happy that he can now finish writing his play.
The next night, the prince again asks to stay for the night to swallow. Swallow says that soon it will begin to snow and she needs to go to Egypt where the weather is warmer. However, Prince tells him that there is a small matchgirl in the lower class whose matches have fallen into the gutter. She is crying because if she goes home without money, her father will beat her. He tells the girl to give her second sapphire eye to swallow so that her father does not beat her.
Swallow takes Neelam out and drops her into the girl's hands. She happily goes home, thinking that she has found a piece of beautiful glass. Swallow returns to the prince and says that as the prince is now blind, he will always be with her. The next day, the prince tells Swallow to fly over the city and tells him what he sees. Swallow obeys this order and the rich make meera in their homes while the poor suffer on the streets. Under the arches of a bridge, he sees two small boys lying in a hug to keep warm. The janitor takes the boys away in the rain. When he tells the prince of his findings, the prince orders him to leave gold, one at a time, and give it to the poor. The swallow picks up the leaves one by one until the prince begins to look dull and gray. Although poor children are happy,
Then it starts snowing and frosting comes after snow. Although Swallow feels cold and cold, he does not leave the prince. Eventually, he realizes that he will die soon. He asks Muster strength to bid him goodbye and his hand to fly to the prince's shoulder to bid. The Prince says that he is glad that Swallow is finally going to Egypt. He thanks Swallow for staying so long and asks him to kiss her lips, as he loves Swallow too much.
Swallow says that he is going to the House of Death, not Egypt. He then kisses the prince and falls dead at his feet below. At that moment, there is a sound of something shattering from the statue: his leadership is heartbroken. The next morning, the mayor and city councilors notice that the statue of the Happy Prince looks shabby. He saw that the jewels and gold had been stripped and the idol looked like a beggar. They see the dead bird on their feet and make a note to declare that the birds should not be allowed to die there.
The prince's statue is taken down. Art professor comments that without its beauty, the statue is no longer useful. The idol is melted in a furnace but the broken heart is not melted. The workers at the foundry throw it on a pile of dust where the dead swallows are also lying there.
God in Heaven asks an angel to bring two of the most precious things to the city. Angel brings him a broken lead heart and a dead bird. God is happy and says that the little bird will sing in his paradise garden forever; And in his sleeping city, the Happy Prince will praise God.
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