Critical Analysis of the Little Prince's Planet
Critical Analysis of the Little Prince's Planet
Is the Little Prince’s Planet a Utopia or Dystopia? Well the answer is different for everybody because no two minds are alike. We live in a world that is full of beauty and destruction. Many people have a different opinion and take pride in what is important to them. The Little Prince lives on a very small planet that is no bigger then he, and has very few possessions, but these possessions are what’s important to him. The prince has three volcanoes and he has a flower, which he believes is like no other flower in the universe. The Little Prince lives a very simple life on his planet and has very few worries, and that is why classifying his planet as a utopia or dystopia is so difficult.
The Little Prince lives on his planet all by himself, has three volcanoes, a flower and says he can watch the sunset forty-four times in a day. So by knowing this it’s obvious that the Little Prince’s planet should be classified as a dystopia, because there’s nothing there. As the Prince goes on his journey throughout the book we come across many things that prove his planet and possessions to be dystopian. The Prince meets a man who says that he owns five hundred and one million, six hundred and twenty-two thousand, seven hundred and thirty-one stars. He meets a king who says that he rules the entire universe. So how important are the Prince’s three volcanoes when there is a man who has five hundred and one million, six hundred and twenty-two thousand, seven hundred and thirty-one stars. How important is it that the Prince has his own planet when there is a king who owns the entire universe. The prince also talks about how special his rose is and that there is no other rose like it. While the Prince was on earth, he comes across a garden where he sees a garden full of roses just like the one on his planet “He was overcome with sadness. His flower had told him that she was the only one of her kind in all the universe. And here were five thousand of them, all alike, in one single garden”(Antoine, 76) So what’s so big about the rose that the Little Prince has in his possession. So how can the Little Prince’s planet be...