KH. ABOVYAN ARMENIAN STATE

PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY

Department of Foreign Languages

Chair of Foreign Language Teaching

PAPER PRESENTATION

Topic: The Little Prince

Student’s Name/Surname: Zhanna Martirosyan
Academic Supervisor (Degree, Title): Baghdasaryan K.
Faculty: Foreign Language
Year: 1

YEREVAN 2022

Contents

Introduction…………………………………………………………………………….3
1. Antoine de Saint-Exupery is an amazing person…………………………………….4
2. To whom is the work dedicated? ................................................................................5
3. Two worlds in the story. Philosophy in everything…………….……………………5
4. Travel and dialogue……………………………………………………….…….......6
5. History of creation………………………………………………………….………..8
Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………9
Bibliography………………………………….………………………………….…….10

INTRODUCTION

How often do we think about our lives? In short breaks between an endless marathon
chasing what we don't really need? Or we completely forget about simple human truths,
 replacing them with false stereotypes that are actively planted from outside. We become dry,
callous, empty...
This sad trend was noticed by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. His desire to make people think
again about what is really important in human life is reflected in the magnificent philosophical
tale "The Little Prince". The protagonist through the eyes of a child, sometimes much wiser than
an adult, once again reminds us of what a person should have in priority: understanding,
harmony with the outside world, the ability to enjoy such simple things that you can’t buy for
any money: dawn , the fragrance of a flower, the radiance of stars. And most importantly - love
and friendship.
It is these simple truths that enable the soul to become purer, to take responsibility for life
and care for another person: “You are forever responsible for everyone you have tamed.” And
the truth is that “Only the heart is vigilant. You can’t see the most important thing with your eyes
... "
The unique and mysterious Saint-Exupery bequeathed to us: "Look for me in what I
write..." and in this work an attempt was made to find the writer through his works. life -
everything in his personality was unchanged.
The aim of the work is to find philosophical images and thinking in the novels of Antoine
de Saint-Exupery.
On the way to the goal, the following tasks were solved:
• definition of the personality of Antoine de Saint-Exupery - philosopher, writer and person
• identification of genre and compositional features and philosophical and ethical issues of Saint-
Exupery's fairy tale "The Little Prince".

 
                                                                                   

Antoine de Saint-Exupery is an amazing person

The life and work of Exupery, the biography of this person and his personal life - this is
what interests many readers of our time. There were many interesting moments in his life that are
worth telling about. Facts from the life of Saint Exupery - a biography of one of the most
mysterious authors of that time. The fate of a writer and a pilot in one person is an interesting
mixture, and we invite you to plunge into the past and live some moments of that time together
with a talented person.
Antoine was born on June 26, 1900 in the beautiful town of France - Lyon. His father was
a nobleman of not very high level, count. The full name of the boy was given to Antoine de
Saint-Exupery. His biography is filled with various events, and the first of them was the loss of
his father at the age of 4 years. His mother took care of his further upbringing. First, she saw to it
that he graduated from a Jesuit school, and then sent him to study in a private Swiss boarding
school. In 1917, Antoine became a student at the Faculty of Architecture at the School of Arts in
Paris. Thus, the mother fulfilled her parental duty and gave her son a decent education.
A variety of talents and interests, which marked his whole life, showed up in him from
childhood. Inexhaustible in inventions and pranks, the first instigator in noisy games and
impromptu children's masquerades, he could sit motionless for hours in front of the fireplace and
daydream, looking at the fire. He began writing poetry early, pensive and melancholy; He drew
well and played the violin. But his biggest passion since childhood is technology. Since his work
as a writer was not successful, he had to change his occupation and engage in trade.
His subsequent life is full of dramatic events. He got into severe aviation accidents, made
many dangerous flights, participated in the struggle of the Spanish Republicans, suffered more
than one injury, and often was on the verge of death. Friends recalled: “He did not shy away
from any risk. Always ahead! Always ready for anything! On July 31, 1944, less than two weeks
before the liberation of France from the Nazi invaders, military pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupery
died while performing a combat mission. For a long time he was considered missing.
Only in the 50s, in the diary of a former German officer, a documentary entry was found
confirming the death of the writer.
Almost all of Exupery's books appeared thanks to his work in aviation and the experience
of a pilot. His novels are saturated with the perception of the world through the eyes of an
aircraft pilot. Antoine received literary awards that praised him as a writer. Exupery's works
were always multifaceted, each of them had a deep meaning. Some novels concerned only the
pilot, others expressed a purely personal relationship. He liked to philosophize in his works, and
this made readers think about the main idea that Exupery wanted to invest.

To whom is the work dedicated?

The story that interests us is dedicated to Leon Werth, Antoine's friend. This is important
to note when doing the analysis. "The Little Prince" is a story in which everything is filled with
deep meaning, including dedication. After all, Leon Werth is a Jewish writer, journalist, critic,
victim of persecution during the war. Such a dedication was not just a tribute to friendship, but
also a bold challenge by the writer to anti-Semitism and Nazism. In difficult times, Exupery
created his fairy tale story. He fought against violence with words and illustrations, which he
manually created for his work. His friend was hiding from the Nazis in France.
“I ask the children to forgive me for dedicating this book to an adult. I'll justify it: this
adult is my best friend. And one more thing: he understands everything in the world, even
children's books. And, finally, he lives in France, and there is now hungry and cold. And he
really needs comfort. If all this does not justify me, I will dedicate this book to the boy that my
adult friend once was. After all, all adults were children at first, only few of them remember
this. So, I am correcting the dedication: to Leon Werth when he was little.”

Two worlds in a story. Philosophy in everything

Two worlds are represented in this story - adults and children, as our analysis
shows. "The Little Prince" is a work in which this division is by no means done according to
age. For example, a pilot is an adult, but he managed to save a child's soul. The author divides
people according to ideals and ideas. For adults, the most important are their own affairs,
ambition, wealth, power. And the child's soul longs for something else - friendship, mutual
understanding, beauty, joy. The antithesis (children and adults) helps to reveal the main conflict
of the work - the opposition of two different value systems: real and false, spiritual and
material. It deepens further. After leaving the planet, the little prince meets "strange adults" on
his way, whom he cannot understand.
The story of the "Little Prince" itself originated from one of the plots of the "Planet of
Humans". This is the story of the accidental landing of the writer himself and his mechanic
Prevost in the desert. Exupery has key, favorite images-symbols. Here, for example, storylines
lead to them: these are the search for water by thirsty pilots, their physical suffering and amazing
salvation. The symbol of life - water, quenches the thirst of people lost in the sands, the source of
everything that exists on earth, the food and flesh of everyone, the substance that makes it
possible to resurrect. In The Little Prince, Exupery will fill this symbol with a deep philosophical
content. The rose is a symbol of love, beauty, femininity. The little prince did not immediately
see the true inner essence of beauty. “The Little Prince” is, first of all, a philosophical fairy
tale. And therefore Baobabs would seem to be a spiritualized image of evil in general. A simple
and unpretentious plot and irony hide a deep meaning. One of the interpretations of this
metaphorical image is connected with fascism. Saint-Exupery wanted people to carefully uproot
the evil “baobabs” that threatened to tear the planet apart. “Beware of the baobabs!” — conjures
the writer. Only the Artist is able to see the essence - the inner beauty and harmony of the world
around him. People must take care of the cleanliness and beauty of their planet, jointly protect
and decorate it, and prevent all living things from perishing. threatened to tear the planet
apart. “Beware of the baobabs!” — conjures the writer. Only the Artist is able to see the essence
- the inner beauty and harmony of the world around him. People must take care of the cleanliness
and beauty of their planet, jointly protect and decorate it, and prevent all living things from
perishing. threatened to tear the planet apart. “Beware of the baobabs!” — conjures the
writer. Only the Artist is able to see the essence - the inner beauty and harmony of the world
around him. People must take care of the cleanliness and beauty of their planet, jointly protect
and decorate it, and prevent all living things from perishing.
“All adults were children at first, only few of them remember this,” says Antoine de
Saint-Exupery in the dedication to his fairy tale “The Little Prince”. By this entry into the
children's work, the writer seems to emphasize that he addresses it not only to children, but also
to adults. Therefore, it is not surprising that when you read this fairy tale, you get the impression
of constant comparison: this is how the Kid sees the event, and this is how the adult sees it. And
this difference is amazing! The author seems to divide the world into two parts - the world of
adults and the world of children. Particularly impressive and sharp is the assessment by the Little
Prince of the life attitudes of different types of adults who are not interconnected, since they live
alone on different asteroids. Saint-Exupery presents a portrait of the humanity of our
planet, which consists of the corresponding number of inhabitants familiar to us from previous
planets. This is how our native Earth appears before us, full, from the point of view of the baby,
all sorts of nonsense: lust for power, arrogance, greed, drunkenness, spiritual callousness.

Travel and dialogue

The composition is based on travel and dialogue. The general picture of the existence of
humanity losing moral values is recreated by the meeting with the "adults" of the little prince.
The protagonist travels in the story from asteroid to asteroid. He visits, first of all, the
nearest, where people live alone. Each asteroid has a number, like the apartments of a modern
high-rise building. These figures hint at the separation of people who live in neighboring
apartments, but live as if on different planets. For the little prince, meeting the inhabitants of
these asteroids becomes a lesson in loneliness.
On one of the asteroids lived a king who looked at the whole world, like other kings, in a
very simplified way. For him, subjects are all people. However, the king was tormented by this
question: "Who is to blame for the fact that his orders are impossible?". The king taught the
prince that judging oneself is harder than judging others. Having learned this, one can become
truly wise. The lover of power loves power, not subjects, and therefore is deprived of the latter.
 On another planet lived an ambitious man. But vain people are deaf to everything except
praise. Only the ambitious loves glory, and not the public, and therefore remains without the
latter.
The business man owned the next planet. As the analysis of the fairy tale "The Little
Prince" shows, the meaning of his life was to find something that does not have an owner and
appropriate it. A business man counts wealth that is not his: he who saves only for himself might
as well count the stars. The little prince cannot understand the logic by which adults live. He
concludes that it is beneficial for his flower and volcanoes that he owns them. But the stars do
not benefit from such possession
And only on the last planet the main character finds a person with whom he wants to
make friends. This is a lamplighter who would be despised by everyone, because he thinks not
only of himself. However, his planet is tiny. There is no room for two. The lamplighter is
working in vain, because he does not know for whom.
The last place the prince visited was the strange Earth. When he arrives here, the title
character of Exupery's story "The Little Prince" feels even more alone. The author pays special
attention in the story to the Earth. He notices that this planet is not at all home, it is "salty", "all
in needles" and "completely dry". It's uncomfortable to live on it. Its definition is given through
images that seemed strange to the little prince. The boy notes that this planet is not simple. The
protagonist's journey continues in the following sections.
Among the people living here, the little prince feels lonely. Analyzing life on Earth, he
notes that there are so many people on it that they cannot feel like one. Millions remain strangers
to each other. What do they live for? A lot of people are rushing in fast trains - why? People are
not connected by pills or fast trains. And the planet will not become a home without it.
Only by meeting the fox does the boy cease to be lonely. He has a friend. He introduces
the hero to the abyss of the human heart, teaches the true understanding of love and friendship,
which people forgot about in the hustle and bustle of business life and therefore lost friends. The
scourge of modern life is enormous speed, frantic pace. In this eternal haste, love perishes. There
is no time to talk heart to heart with a friend, stop and look inside yourself, think about the
meaning of life, and even make friends seems like a luxury.

History of creation
The “prototype” of the literary fairy tale “The Little Prince” can be considered a folk
fairy tale with a wandering plot: a handsome prince leaves his father’s house because of unhappy
love and wanders along endless roads in search of happiness and adventure. He tries to gain fame
and thereby win the impregnable heart of the princess.
 Saint-Exupery takes this story as a basis, but rethinks it in his own way, even ironically.
The image of the Little Prince is both deeply autobiographical and, as it were, removed
from the adult author-pilot. He was born out of longing for the dying little Tonio, a descendant of
an impoverished noble family, who was called the “Sun King” in the family for his blond hair,
and was nicknamed the Lunatic in college for the habit of looking at the starry sky for a long
time. And in 1940, in between battles with the Nazis, Exupery often drew a boy on a piece of
paper - when he was winged, when he was riding a cloud. Gradually, the wings will be replaced
by a long scarf (which, by the way, the author himself wore), and the cloud will become the
asteroid B-612.
On the pages of a fairy tale, we meet the Little Prince, a cute, inquisitive boy traveling the
planets. The author draws fantastic worlds - small planets ruled by strange people. During his
journey, the Little Prince meets various adults. The Little Prince is not just a fairy tale-parable in
its traditional form, but a modernized version adapted to the problems of our time, containing
many details, allusions, and images taken from the realities of the 20th century.

CONCLUSION
Wanting to know what kind of person he is and what ideas he pursues in all his works, we
studied his biography, philosophy, and creativity. All life was devoted to the sky. With his moral
qualities, his intellect, his activities - in a word, his fate, Saint-Exupery rises above the ordinary
human level and is in some way among the people who should serve as an example for
others. He belongs to the category of people who do not fit into the usual framework.
The author wants to say that people have forgotten one simple truth: they are responsible
for their planet, as well as for those who have been tamed. If we all understood this, there would
probably be no wars and economic problems. But people are very often blind, do not listen to
their own hearts, leave their home, looking for happiness far from their relatives and
friends. Antoine de Saint-Exupery did not write his fairy tale "The Little Prince" for fun.
The end of the fairy tale is sad: the boy misses the lost harmony, but childhood cannot be
returned. The story created by Exupery is very touching in its essence. It has the deepest
meaning and at the same time conveys important, necessary things to the reader in a simple
form. Reading Exupery, we kind of change the angle of view on banal, everyday phenomena. It
leads to the comprehension of obvious truths: you can’t hide stars in a jar and count them
pointlessly, you need to take care of those for whom you are responsible and listen to the voice
of your own heart. Everything is simple and complex at the same time.
The fairy tale of Antoine de Saint-Exupery "The Little Prince" is amazing. Of course, the
most important thing cannot be seen with the eyes, even if you put on glasses or look through a
microscope. A blind heart is the most terrible evil imaginable: only a miracle or someone's
sincere love can restore his sight.

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Glossary
1. endless - бесконечный
2. chasing - погоня
3. replacing - замена
4. dry - сухой
5. callous - черствый
6. empty - пустой
7. magnificent - великолепный
8. protagonist - главный герой
9. ability - способность
10. fragrance - аромат
11. enable - включить
12. purer - чище
13. responsibility - обязанность
14. mysterious - таинственный
15. attempt - пытаться
16. unchanged - без изменений
17. solved - решено
18. definition - определение
19. identification - удостоверение личности
20. compositional - композиционный
21. issues - вопросы
22. pursues - преследует
23. devoted - преданный
24. rises - поднимается
25. framework - рамки
26. forgotten - забытый
27. tamed - прирученный
28. blind - слепой
29. comprehension - понимание
30. obvious - очевидный
31. terrible evil - ужасное зло