The Happy Prince

Class 9 NCERT Moments

Summary of the story
• The Happy Prince is a story by Oscar
Wilde.

• It is about the story of a statue,the

happy prince, covered with gold and
many fine jewels.
Summary of the story
• The story of the happy prince dwells
upon the themes like social injustice
redemptive power of love and loss of
innocence.

• In the story, we come across a statue,

who at one time was a real prince.
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• When the prince was alive he was a
happy person.

• He lived in the palace and did not

know about human sufferings.

• His life was full of joys.

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• Upon his death his statue was built at
the top of a tall coloumn in the city.

• The statue was covered all over with

thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had
two bright sapphires , and a large red
ruby glowed over his sword hilt.
Summary of the story
• The statue of the happy prince looked
beautiful and everyone in this city
loved to see the statue of the prince.

• Since he was placed high above the city

on a tall coloumn, the prince was able
to witness all the sorrows and
sufferings that common people faced.
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• But the prince remained ignorant of
them during his lifetime. This once
made the prince sad .

• His eyes got watered and large drops

of tears began to run down from his
golden cheeks
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• A little swallow who has alighted
between the the feets of the happy
Prince to spend the night there became
curious to know that from where did
this drops fall.
Summary of the story
• He looked up and saw that the eyes of
the prince was full of tears .

• The bird took pity on the prince and

became ready to assist him in his desire
to ease the sufferings of the common
people.
Summary of the story
• He became the messenger of the prince
and agreed to remove the fine gold
and jewels from his statue to distribute
them among the poor and the needy .
• He started with plucking the ruby from
the prince’s sword and giving it to the
seamstress who had no money to feed
her ailing child .
Summary of the story
• Then he plucked a sapphire from one
of the eye of the statue and gave it to
the playwright who was too poor to
make fire in the winter to continue his
writing.
• He was also very hungry and feeling
weak
Summary of the story
• One day the prince saw a match girl
who was being beaten by his father for
letting her matches fall in the gutter

• The prince’s filled with pity for that

girl
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• He immediately commanded the
swallow to pluck out his other eye and
help the poor girl.

• But the swallow was not ready to do

this because this would made the
prince completely blind
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• On being insisted he pluck out the
prince’s other eye swooped past the
match girl and slipped the jewel into
the girl’s hand.

• The little bird decided not to leave the

company of the happy prince who has
gone blind now.
Summary of the story
• Although the Prince was not able to
see the sorrows and sufferings of the
people he knew it was there.

• So he instructed the bird to take off

the fine gold he was covered with and
give it to the poor.
Summary of the story
• The bird followed his words and picked
of the gold leaf one by one, till the
happy prince looked quite dull and
grey.

• Then the snow came and the poor

little swallow grew older and colder.
Summary of the story
• But he did not leave the Prince.
Eventually he grew older and died
because of exposure and exhaustion.
• Just at that moment a sound of crack
came from the statue as something has
broken.
Summary of the story
• It was in fact the leaden heart that
had snapped right into two at the loss
of sweet and kind swallow. The statue
was no more beautiful and was useless.
• It stood deserted so the councillors and
the mayor pulled it down.
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• Then they melted the statue in the
furnace but the leaden heart did not
melt.

• So they threw it in a dust heap where

the dead swallow was lying
Summary of the story
• When God asked one of his angels to
bring the two most precious things in
the city tge angel brought him the
leaden heart and the dead bird.

• God welcomed the two in his garden

of paradise and and deemed them the
beautiful creations.
So that’s it for today’s
video we will meet with
another interesting
summary of different
stories and poems.
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