CLASS 9
THE HAPPY PRINCE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Because he was touched because the swallow accompanied him all the time
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Because he was in pain
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Because he wanted to go back to his palace, but he couldn’t
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Because he was sad. He saw some misery and sorrow
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Detailed explanation-1: -What made the statue of the Happy Prince cry? The Happy Prince had never seen or experienced sorrow all his life. But after his death, his statue was put up on a high pedestal from where he could see the ugliness and misery of his land. This made him cry with sorrow.
Detailed explanation-2: -Solution : The Happy Prince’s statue lamented because he knew no sorrow when he was alive. But after the building of his statue the whole of the city’s ugliness and misery could be seen, and although now he had a leading heart he still could feel the pain that made him cry.
Detailed explanation-3: -Why did the prince feel sad? Ans). The prince felt sad because he could see a poor women sewing in a dark room, her son has fever but have no money to buy him food.
Detailed explanation-4: -From here, the Happy Prince, like a statue, got to see the pain and miseries of the people. He then realised that ugliness and sufferings are the true faces of life. He felt that the misery suffered by humans was the greatest mystery and the plight of – men and women was more marvellous than the grandeurs of riches.
Detailed explanation-5: -Answer: When the Happy Prince was alive, he could not see the misery of people because he was never out of his palace and was happy throughout his life. He lived a comfortable life inside the palace and never saw the misery and ugliness of the people around him.