A review by tearsinthesea
The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde

3.0

This was my first ever Oscar Wilde story... IT was interesting! I don't know what better word describes his writing. It is very eloquent and not too complex. I'm surprised that this was a story for kid's in the 18whatever's (1850's?) The prince literal wow, he is just the weirdest character. Before this, I didn't even know what a swallow was, but it's a bird. Could have just said bird. Anyways, the story which is very short, focuses on a not-so-happy prince called the Happy Prince. SPOILERS btw (but again, it's like 4 pages) There is some sort of friendship/love greater relationship between this bird and statue and it's sad but happy-ish? The bird dies selflessly- how tragic and so does the statue of the prince who wanted nothing but good for his city/town. BUT it's good because they're like happy together in the afterlife or something. It's again... interesting. The deeper message is definatley what makes me like it more.. but then again it's kind of weird. Oscar Wilde just loves terrible endings, there was that one part where the lead heart of the prince gets thrown on the dead body of the bird. Lovely! "We must throw it away' So they threw it on a dust-heap where the dead Swallow was also lying." OK. lmao OKAY.