The book of life's best phrases, The Little Prince.
One of the books most read by everyone is the little prince, there is no reader who does not resist the wisdom impregnated in this little book. For many it is a book dedicated to children, for others dedicated to life, and for those who have a perspective on life with awareness it is a book dedicated to those who have forgotten to be like children.
The little prince is the perfect archetype that every human being has to follow. Many are the debates that have arisen around this peculiar and essential book for life itself. A phrase that appears in the book of the little prince that captivates any adult is this; "Older people are never able to understand things for themselves".
As adults we lose the meaning of life, leaving aside innocence, to invent the prejudices and ethics in which we are going to live our whole lives. If you have not read this book it is good that you do, because just as the author in the Europe of wars touched the hearts of a few, so will anyone who reads this little booklet.
Just as Nietzsche had his Zarathustra, Khalil Gibran his Prophet, Robert Fisher his scalp. Saint-Exupéry, his little prince, is that each character represents something of the author, because when you write books the author is all his characters. That is why I have given myself the task of explaining a little about the symbology behind this fantastic work, where I will talk about the most important things that the author highlights, such as The Little Prince, The Fox and The Rose.
Meaning of the Little Prince
From the prologue of the book, Antoine shows us for the public that the book is directed, that's why I'm going to give shape to the majestic prologue of the Little Prince:
I apologize to the children for having dedicated this book to an older person.
I have a serious excuse: this older person is the best friend I have in the world. But I have another excuse: this older person is capable of understanding everything, even children's books.
I still have a third excuse: this elderly person lives in France, where he is hungry and cold. She therefore has a great need to be comforted. If all these reasons were not enough, then I would like to dedicate this book to the child who was once this elderly person. All older people have been children before. (But few of them remember it).
I therefore correct my dedication:
LION WERTH, when I was a kid. Foreword of the Little Prince
Already at this point Saint-Exupery shows us what role the Little Prince plays, and that is that he shows us that this character represents the inner child that we all have within us; although we ignore him with a frown, it is necessary for this inner child to come to the surface, one of the greatest masters who has ever walked this world once said; "the kingdom of heaven belongs to those who are like children." (Words of Jesus)
To have a better understanding of the words of the master, he refers with the kingdom of heaven to our inner self, all our battles come out of our deepest inner being, so it is necessary to understand everything that lies within us because we will not only know the kingdom of heaven, but we will live as children.
Who is more sincere and spontaneous than children? No adult can step on the steps that children step on, because they see with the eyes of innocence and purity, they reason with the imagination. The great writer Lewis Carrol in his book "Alice through the mirror" writes beautiful lines saying "Every being has to live in the gardens of the imagination, in the palaces of memory, and above all to feed himself with dreams".
Since when do you not dream? You may say that it is not worth living in a dream world, but when we are realistic we make that idea of impossibility come true, because the only thing that makes the impossible possible is our dreams.
Meaning of the Fox
Our lives are made up of responsibilities, rites, philosophies and poetry. And although many do not see or pay attention to what they are experiencing in their own time, with this kind of attitude they let life live them, but they do not live life.
History has given us great events, it has given us high quality writers, such as the great Cervantes who set up the first novel that is nothing more and nothing less than Don Quixote, also that book with a demonic but poetic aspect that marked a whole generation as was Goethe's Faust, and if mediating appears the most recognized playwright of all the European caste and part of the world Schiller with his William Tell, each of these writers made a representation of what is poetry, novel, and love in his works.
But there are other great men who were called the masters of suspicion, they opened consciousness to a new philosophical world as were Karl Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, these great men gave the world their perception and marked history.
If you've read the novel, you'll remember this phrase that may have been dedicated to someone: "If you come for example at four o'clock in the afternoon, after three o'clock I'll start to feel happy. As the hour progresses I will feel happier" Yes? Have you ever dedicated this phrase to a person?
The Fox within the Little Prince represents the philosophy, poetry and rites that human beings have. That emptiness of so many questions, and of so much need that he has of another human being, to be more specific the author at the beginning of the book says: "I lived alone, with no one to really talk to" this is a sample of Antoine's deep reflection on life, because in solitude the deepest secrets of the spirit are known, that's why the author shows us a character who, although it seems a discrepancy, what I write is the closest thing to a human being, since we like monotony to be sure of things.
The sentence goes on to say: "But if you come at any time, I won't know how to get my heart ready.... Rites are necessary", and that is what philosophy, poetry, and rites prepare for us, they tame us with thoughts and ideas that do not let the spirit flow.
Meaning of the Rose
Literally the rose in all cases represents what we love, and what we are from love. In the Little Prince it is also the same, the rose represents that delicate walk of people. Many critics suggest that the rose appears in the play because of the stormy life the author had with his wife:
""My Rose perfumed my planet, but I didn't know how to enjoy it.... I didn't know how to understand anything then! I should have judged her by her actions and not by her words. It perfumed and enlightened me. I should never have run away.... The flowers are so contradictory! But I was too young to know how to love her." (The Little Prince.)
A rose is the exact representation of the feminine beauty, in a few words it is an immeasurable beauty of nature, not to represent the meaning of the rose in this post would make this publication a trifle. Because he loves his rose, and the rose with his attitude loves itself, but knowing his temperament he says:
"I've been a fool... You've been as foolish as I am... I apologize. Try to be happy." (The Rose)
In short, the rose represents that delicacy that exercises the world to love, the rose is the brushstroke of creation, it is the final touch of a creative God, because God, seeing the man alone, created the woman. And this was his last creation.
The rose is the perfect archetype of love, and how enigmatic it is.
One of the most deep books with a simple story. The book of my childhood.
For me it is also one of the best books I have read.