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* TearsFromAStone: The Happy Prince is a statue, but on the first meeting with the Swallow he apparently cries to the point where his tears awaken the bird.
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* HumansAreFlawed: Given Wilde's sarcastic tone seen in the descriptions of the human characters. Also provoked in the end where the humans do not acknowledge Happy Prince's sacrifices and see him as an old, ugly statue decorated with a dead swallow, [[DramaticIrony all while the readers know what's really going on.]]
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* HumansAreFlawed: Given Wilde's sarcastic tone seen in the descriptions of the human characters. The people the Prince and Swallow help are at least grateful for their MysteriousBenefactor giving them means to survive with, but there are also many townsfolk who aren't so kind. Also provoked in the end where the humans do not acknowledge Happy Prince's sacrifices and see him as an old, ugly statue decorated with a dead swallow, [[DramaticIrony all while the readers know what's really going on.]]
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* LastKiss: [[spoiler:Just before the Swallow dies, the Prince, thinking he's just leaving for Egypt, asks it to kiss him on the lips before it goes. The Swallow obliges, and promptly drops down dead at his feet.]]
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* LastKiss: [[spoiler:Just before the Swallow dies, the Prince, thinking he's the former is just leaving for Egypt, asks it to kiss him on the lips before it goes. The Swallow obliges, and promptly drops down dead at his feet.]]
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* SamaritanSyndrome: The Happy Prince can't abide seeing people in misery when he can sacrifice the precious jewels and metals he's made of to help them get out of their poverty.
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* SamaritanSyndrome: LastKiss: [[spoiler:Just before the Swallow dies, the Prince, thinking he's just leaving for Egypt, asks it to kiss him on the lips before it goes. The Swallow obliges, and promptly drops down dead at his feet.]]
* SamaritanSyndrome:
** The Happy Prince can't abide seeing people in misery when he can sacrifice the precious jewels and metals he's made of to help them get out of theirpoverty.poverty.
** Likewise, the Swallow insists on getting back en route to Egypt to join the rest of its flock, but seeing the Prince's sorrow over the village people makes it stay to do as the Prince commands. And when both of the Prince's eyes are gifted away, the Swallow remains to tell the statue stories and deliver the gold leaf from his body.
* SamaritanSyndrome:
** The Happy Prince can't abide seeing people in misery when he can sacrifice the precious jewels and metals he's made of to help them get out of their
** Likewise, the Swallow insists on getting back en route to Egypt to join the rest of its flock, but seeing the Prince's sorrow over the village people makes it stay to do as the Prince commands. And when both of the Prince's eyes are gifted away, the Swallow remains to tell the statue stories and deliver the gold leaf from his body.
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* ShoutOut: One of the villagers the Prince commands the Swallow to help is a [[Literature/TheLittleMatchGirl little match-girl]] who hasn't sold any of her wares, often gets beaten if she doesn't return with profit, and is working in the middle of a harsh winter.
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* SymbolicallyBrokenObject: The Happy Prince's heart of lead breaks with a loud crack at the same moment that the swallow dies.
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* DoubleEntendre: The description of the Reed is full of these.
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* InLoveWithLove: The Swallow.
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* TalkingAnimal: The Swallow.
* {{Seers}}: Happy Prince
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* ButNowIMustGo: Subverted. Happy Prince doesn't let the Swallow go despite the later's repeated pleas.
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* ButNowIMustGo: Subverted. Happy Prince doesn't let the Swallow go despite the later's latter's repeated pleas.
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-->"Who are you?" [The Swallow] said.
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-->"I am the Happy Prince."
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* TheSeer: {{Seers}}: Happy Prince
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* GildedCage: The Prince more or less lived in one of these when alive, since he wasn't even allowed to experience sadness and felt shocked when he looked onto the town as a statue and saw mostly poverty and misery.
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* ButNowIMustGo: Subverted. Happy Prince doesn't let the Swallow go despite the later's repeated remarks.
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* ButNowIMustGo: Subverted. Happy Prince doesn't let the Swallow go despite the later's repeated remarks.pleas.
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* FriendToAllLivingThings: Happy Prince oversees human's suffering and sympathizes for them all.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Happy Prince sacrifice all his gold leaves. The Swallow helps him delivering them to death as he can't stand the cold weather. And nobody finds them of any value afterward.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Happy Prince sacrifice all his gold leaves. The Swallow helps him delivering them to death as he can't stand the cold weather. And nobody finds them of any value afterward.]]
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* FriendToAllLivingThings: Happy Prince oversees human's humans suffering and sympathizes for them all.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Happy Princesacrifice sacrifices all his the gold leaves. leaves he is covered with. The Swallow helps him delivering them to death until he dies, as he can't stand the cold weather. And nobody finds them of any value afterward.]]
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* SpoiledSweet: Happy Prince's back story is depicted as an absolute happy person who knows no sadness and hardship, and retain his kindness even after death.
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* SpoiledSweet: Happy Prince's back story is depicted as an absolute happy person who knows no sadness and hardship, and retain retains his kindness even after death.
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* SamaritainSyndrome: The Happy Prince can't abide seeing people in misery when he can sacrifice the precious jewels and metals he's made of to help them get out of their poverty.
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* SamaritainSyndrome: SamaritanSyndrome: The Happy Prince can't abide seeing people in misery when he can sacrifice the precious jewels and metals he's made of to help them get out of their poverty.
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"The Happy Prince" is a short story by Creator/OscarWilde about a romantic swallow and the statue of a prince, who, after spending all his life in luxury, is turned into a statue who watches all the misery outside his palace.
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"The Happy Prince" is a short story fairy tale by Creator/OscarWilde about a romantic swallow and the statue of a prince, who, after spending all his life in luxury, is turned into a statue who watches all the misery outside his palace.
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* BitterSweetEnding: See [[spoiler:DiedHappilyEverAfter]]
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* [[spoiler:BitterSweetEnding]]: See [[spoiler:DiedHappilyEverAfter]]
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* [[spoiler:BitterSweetEnding]]: BitterSweetEnding: See [[spoiler:DiedHappilyEverAfter]]
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* [[spoiler:DiedHappilyEverAfter]]:[[spoiler:"for DiedHappilyEverAfter: [[spoiler:"for in my garden of Paradise this little bird shall sing for evermore, and in my city of gold the Happy Prince shall praise me."]]
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* InterspeciesRomance: The swallow is in love with a reed plant early in the story.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The Swallow lands under Happy Prince's ''clotch'' and gets wet by his tear.
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* TakeThat: Human philosophers and those who judge things by the covers.
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* TakeThat: Human philosophers Toward human teachers, philosophers, and those who are attached to logic and judge things by the covers.
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* ButNowIMustGo: Subverted. Happy Prince doesn't let the Swallow go despite the later's repeated remarks.
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Happy Prince sacrifice all his gold. The Swallow helps him to death as he can't stand the cold weather. And nobody find them of any value afterward.]]
* HoYay: Well...
* HumansAreFlawed: Given Wilde's sarcastic tone seen in the descriptions of human characters. Also provokes in the end where the humans do not acknowledge Happy Prince's sacrifices and see him as an old statue decorated with a dead swallow, [[DramaticIrony all while the readers know what's really going on.]]
* HoYay: Well...
* HumansAreFlawed: Given Wilde's sarcastic tone seen in the descriptions of human characters. Also provokes in the end where the humans do not acknowledge Happy Prince's sacrifices and see him as an old statue decorated with a dead swallow, [[DramaticIrony all while the readers know what's really going on.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Happy Prince sacrifice all his gold. gold leaves. The Swallow helps him him delivering them to death as he can't stand the cold weather. And nobody find finds them of any value afterward.]]
* HoYay: Well...
* HumansAreFlawed: Given Wilde's sarcastic tone seen in the descriptions of the human characters. Also provokes provoked in the end where the humans do not acknowledge Happy Prince's sacrifices and see him as an old old, ugly statue decorated with a dead swallow, [[DramaticIrony all while the readers know what's really going on.]]
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* SpoiledSweet: Happy Prince's back story is depicted as an absolute happy person who knows no sadness and hardship, and retain his kindness even after death.
* TakeThat: Human philosophers and those who judge things by the covers.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The Swallow lands under Happy Prince's ''clotch'' and gets wet by his tear.
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Happy Prince sacrifice all his gold. The Swallow can't stand the heat and dies. And nobody find them of any value afterward.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Happy Prince sacrifice all his gold. The Swallow helps him to death as he can't stand the heat and dies.cold weather. And nobody find them of any value afterward.]]
* HoYay: Well...
* HumansAreFlawed: Given Wilde's sarcastic tone seen in the descriptions of human characters. Also provokes in the end where the humans do not acknowledge Happy Prince's sacrifices and see him as an old statue decorated with a dead swallow, [[DramaticIrony all while the readers know what's really going on.]]
* HoYay: Well...
* HumansAreFlawed: Given Wilde's sarcastic tone seen in the descriptions of human characters. Also provokes in the end where the humans do not acknowledge Happy Prince's sacrifices and see him as an old statue decorated with a dead swallow, [[DramaticIrony all while the readers know what's really going on.]]
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* TheSeer: Happy Prince
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* FriendToAllLivingThings: Happy Prince oversees human's suffering and sympathizes for them all.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Happy Prince sacrifice all his gold. The Swallow can't stand the heat and dies. And nobody find them of any value afterward.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Happy Prince sacrifice all his gold. The Swallow can't stand the heat and dies. And nobody find them of any value afterward.]]
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* DoubleEntendre: The description of the Reed is full of these.
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* StealthPun: The description of the reed, which is full of double entendres about plants
-->[...]''The Reed shook her head, she was so attached to her home.''
-->[...]''The Reed shook her head, she was so attached to her home.''
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It's currently in public domain, and can be read in full [[http://www.online-literature.com/poe/177/ here]].
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* [[DiedHappilyEverAfter]]:[[spoiler:"for in my garden of Paradise this little bird shall sing for evermore, and in my city of gold the Happy Prince shall praise me."]]
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*[[spoiler:BitterSweetEnding]]: See [[spoiler:DiedHappilyEverAfter]]
*[[DiedHappilyEverAfter]]:[[spoiler:"for in my garden of Paradise this little bird shall sing for evermore, and in my city of gold the Happy Prince shall praise me."]]
*[[DiedHappilyEverAfter]]:[[spoiler:"for in my garden of Paradise this little bird shall sing for evermore, and in my city of gold the Happy Prince shall praise me."]]
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!!This play provides examples of the following tropes:
* CargoShip: The Swallow and the Reed.
* InLoveWithLove: The Swallow, arguably.
* CargoShip: The Swallow and the Reed.
* InLoveWithLove: The Swallow, arguably.
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!!This play tale provides examples of the following tropes:
* CargoShip: The Swallow and the Reed.
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* InLoveWithLove: TheSwallow, arguably.Swallow.
* CargoShip: The Swallow and the Reed.
* InLoveWithLove: The
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''The Happy Prince'' is a short story by OscarWilde about a romantic swallow and the statue and of a swallow.
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* TalkingAnimal: The Swallow.
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''The Happy Prince'' is a short story by OscarWilde about a statue and a swallow.
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!!This play provides examples of the following tropes:
* CargoShip: The Swallow and the Reed.
* IronicName:
-->"Who are you?" [The Swallow] said.
-->"I am the Happy Prince."
-->"Why are you weeping then?"
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!!This play provides examples of the following tropes:
* CargoShip: The Swallow and the Reed.
* IronicName:
-->"Who are you?" [The Swallow] said.
-->"I am the Happy Prince."
-->"Why are you weeping then?"
