The Little Prince | Characters
Since the story of The Little Prince is written in the form of a fable, or allegory, the characters do not have names, but are rather "I" and "he." Others are generic: the astronomer, the geographer, the king, the businessman, the lamplighter, and so on. As in allegory, they represent one phase of human life. The king is authority; the lamplighter, devotion to duty; the businessman, greed. The flower is a coquettish woman, nevertheless beloved by the Prince; the serpent is death; the fox, true to his literary image, represents ruse. Most of the secondary characters appear only in...
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