1. The Young King
Oscar Wilde

2. Contents The Author The Fairy Tale The Writing Style
The Main Character
Question for discussion

3. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Born October 1854
Died November 1900 (aged 46)
Period Victorian era
Nationality Irish
Occupation Writer, poet, playwright
Genre Drama, short story, criticism,
dialogue, journalism
Literary Aestheticism
movement
Works
Novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
Play The Importance of Being Earnest (1898)
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
A Woman of No Importance (1893)
An Ideal Husband (1895)
Fairy stories House of Pomegranates (1891)
Poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
Essays and more

4. The Young King
A House of Pomegranates
published in 1891
a companion to The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Contents
The Birthday of the Infanta
The Fisherman and His Soul
The Star-Child
“intended neither for the British child nor the British public”

5. The nobles, peasants and bishops rebuke him.
a much higher being has officially crowned the young king
The young king dressed as a son of shepherd in his coronation day.
Dream 3: all servants in search of his crown’s rubies were killed
illegitimate shepherd son of the recently dead king's daughter
Dream 2: one slave was sent underwater to find pearls for the scepter and dies
in awe of the splendor of his new home
Dream 1: a group of starving peasants working at looms to weave his robe

6. Writing Style beauty sadness
a young man of marvelous and foreign beauty
He had shown signs of that strange passion for beauty.
the slim, fair-haired Court pages, with their floating mantles, and gay fluttering ribands

7. Character the young king Saint Paul Dedicated to beauty
Care about people
Jesus hater
Preacher
the young king
Saint Paul

8. What Makes a Real King
Chamberlain: For how shall the people know that thou art a king, if thou hast not a king’s raiment?
Nobles: The people wait for their king, and thou showest them a beggar. He brings shame upon our state, and is unworthy to be our master.
A peasant: To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.
Bishop: The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

9. What Makes a Real King
The dead staff blossomed, and bare lilies that were whiter than pearl. The dry thorn blossomed, and bare roses that were redder than rubies.
And the people fell upon their knees in awe, and the nobles sheathed their swords and did homage, and the Bishop’s face grow pale, and his hands trembled. “A greater than I hath crowned thee,” he cried, and he knelt before him.

10. Thank You!