Wild's The Happy Prince and its Utopian Values

Abstract

This study aimed to study the themes of equality, freedom, security, and enlightened thought in Wild's The Happy Prince. This essay examined Wild's goal of constructing utopian realms by going through suffering. According to this research, the primary characters in the Happy Prince story, The Happy Prince, The Swallow, The Reed, The Little Match Girl, and God intended for their deeds to lay the groundwork for a world filled with virtue. This essay also demonstrated how the utopian themes included in the Happy Prince tale are a type of socialist theory that aims to draw attention to specific beliefs and behaviors by picturing them in a perfect community or state. the purpose of this study was to investigate utopia as a genre of fiction and the imagination, which offers many intriguing possibilities for explanation. In the utopian society that The Happy Prince and the Swallow constructed, kindness and love prevail over avarice and apathy. Through their deeds, Wilde painted a picture of a society in which people put others' needs first and work to improve the world.