Khush Rajkumar Ate Hor Kahanian (Short Punjabi Stories)

The story "The Happy Prince" is a moral and social allegory in that it places shallowness vs. altruism; idleness vs. sacrifice; and contempt vs. compassion under the perspective of the one person who once was adored by all and now has a statue made after him: The so-called Happy Prince.Once, when the Prince was alive, he was filled with richness and opulence to the point that, after his death, he was made into a statue of gold leaf and jewels. After the swallow visits him and does the favor of delivering the goods of the statue to the poor of the city, he learns the social imbalance that exists in society, where some have too much and others too little. In the case of Wildes time, Victorian England was experiencing the same inequity in the slum districts and Oscars story is a clear allegory and metaphor of the British Social System at the time: Where the rich were filthy rich and the poor starved to death.ਕਹਾਣੀ "ਖੁੱਸ਼ ਰਾਜਕੁਮਾਰ" ਇੱਕ ਨੈਤਿਕ ਅਤੇ ਸਮਾਜਿਕ...