The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde
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Re: The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde
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I don't know if I am it making it complicated but when I read "The Happy Prince", I thought Wilde was questioning what does it mean to be happy.
"... and happy indeed I was, if pleasure be happiness"
'It is curious,' he remarked, 'but I feel quite warm now, although it is so cold.'
When was the happy prince really happy? Was it when he was alive or was it when he was helping others?
I must say, every time I read one Wilde's story, it gives me a new perspective.
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The Stephen Fry film of his life is very good also.
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So what to do? Give the story its due, as far as one's own sensibilities go, perhaps, and grant that in the face of all that is mysterious, beautiful and to be marveled at, human misery is the greatest mystery of all.
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I agree! What a beautiful, bittersweet story.AdamWest wrote:Oscar Wilde is one of my favorite authors ever
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