Characteristics of a business man from the little prince. "The Little Prince": analysis. "The Little Prince": a work by Saint-Exupery. Group presentations, discussion
Whom did you meet? A little prince on the planets you will find out by viewing the material.
"Little Prince" of the planet and its inhabitants
The little prince, having quarreled with a rose, goes traveling, leaving the flower alone. The little prince travels to several planets, where he meets different adults. Each planet is inhabited by one person. He looks at their spiritual values with surprise and cannot understand them. “These are strange people, adults!” - he says.
1. Asteroid King
On the first asteroid there lived a king. Dressed in purple and ermine, he sat on a throne, very simple and yet majestic.
2. Ambitious Asteroid
The ambitious man considered himself the most popular and famous. But his celebrity did not manifest itself in anything, since he lived alone on the planet. I wanted fame, honor, but did nothing for it: not a single good deed, not my own development.
3. Asteroid Drunkards
The little prince stayed with the drunkard for only a short time, but after that he felt very sad. When he appeared on this planet, the Drunkard sat silently and looked at the hordes of bottles lined up in front of him - empty and full.
4. Business Man Asteroid
The fourth planet belonged to a business man. He was so busy that when the little prince appeared he didn’t even raise his head.
5. Lamplighter Asteroid
The fifth planet was very interesting. She turned out to be the smallest of all. It only held a lantern and a lamplighter. The little prince could not understand why on a tiny planet lost in the sky, where there are no houses or inhabitants, a lantern and a lamplighter are needed.
6. Asteroid Geographa
The sixth planet was ten times larger than the previous one. There lived an old man who wrote thick books.
7. Planet Earth
So the seventh planet he visited was Earth.
The Earth is not a simple planet! There are one hundred and eleven kings (including, of course, black ones), seven thousand geographers, nine hundred thousand businessmen, seven and a half million drunkards, three hundred and eleven million ambitious people - a total of about two billion adults.
The Little Prince's Journey Map
1st planet (10th chapter) - king;
2nd planet (11th chapter) - ambitious;
3rd planet (12th chapter) - drunkard;
4th planet (13th chapter) - business person;
5th planet (14th chapter) - lamplighter;
6th planet (15th chapter) - geographer.
Having visited these six planets, the Little Prince rejects people’s false ideas about power, happiness, and duty. And only at the end of his journey, having become rich life experience, he learns the true essence of these moral concepts. This happens on Earth.
Arriving on planet Earth, the Little Prince saw roses: “they all looked like his flower.” “And he felt very, very unhappy. His beauty told him that there was no one like her in the entire Universe. And here in front of him are five thousand exactly the same flowers!” The boy realized that his rose was an ordinary flower and began to cry bitterly.
Only thanks to the Fox did he realize that his rose was “the only one in the whole world.” The little prince says to the roses: “You are beautiful, but empty. I won't want to die for you. Of course, a random passerby, looking at my rose, will say that it is exactly the same as you. But she is dearer to me than all of you. After all, it was her, not you, that I watered every day. She was covered with a glass cover, not you... I listened to her, even when she fell silent. She is mine".
Love is a complex science, it turns out that you need to comprehend it, you need to learn love. The fox helps the little prince comprehend this complex science, and a little boy bitterly admits to himself: “You should never listen to what the flowers say. You just have to look at them and breathe in their scent. My flower filled my whole planet with fragrance, but I didn’t know how to enjoy it...
It was necessary to judge not by words, but by deeds. She gave me her scent and illuminated my life. I shouldn't have run. Behind these pitiful tricks and tricks I should have guessed tenderness... But I was too young, I did not yet know how to love.”
This is how the Little Prince learns the science of love and the extent of responsibility towards those he has tamed.
We are inhabitants of the same planet, passengers of the same ship.
Everything I hold dear is at risk.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The purpose of the lesson: consider environmental and moral problems mentioned in the fairy tale
Lesson Objectives:
– identify philosophical meaning fairy tales;
– analyze the moral problems of human interaction with nature;
– based on local history material, identify general and local ones (for our village) ecological problems;
– propose ways to solve identified problems.
Equipment: globe, appliqué models of planets, memo for village residents, quotes, arrows indicating problems.
DURING THE CLASSES
Literature teacher.“A fairy tale is a lie, but there is a hint in it, good fellows lesson". “The Little Prince” is not as simple a fairy tale as it seems. After reading it carefully, you can learn a lot of useful information.
In previous lessons we talked about the fact that modern man feels like the master of the world - he strives to subjugate the nature of the Earth, and then other planets. He has succeeded in many ways: he exploits the bowels of the Earth, develops space, uses atomic energy, etc. This human activity often causes irreparable harm to nature. Having become carried away, man began to lose touch with nature, forgot that he himself was part of it and could not exist outside of nature.
Let's return to the fairy tale "The Little Prince". Its author said: “I don’t want my book to be read just for fun.” How do you understand these words?
Try to answer the following questions. – What do we call a work that touches on serious issues and makes you think and analyze? (.)
Philosophical
– What is this fairy tale about?
– What is the author thinking about?
– What did you think about after reading the fairy tale? Biology teacher.
The plot of the fairy tale is based on the Little Prince's journey across the planets in search of a friend. Let's remember what planets he visited, who he met, what he saw?
(Students, using models, make reports about the planets described in the fairy tale, make assumptions about what the planet would look like if a person living there ruled it.)
Planet of the King. Every resident is a subject of the king, everything is done only by order of the king. P Planet of the Ambitious.
An ambitious person is an egoist and admires only himself. The planet is well-groomed only where he lives, and what is happening in other places does not interest him. Planet of the Drunkard.
A drunkard is a weak person and cannot free himself from addiction. Dirty, unkempt planet. Planet of the Business Man.
This man dreams of owning the entire Universe, but his planet is overgrown and wild. Planet of the Lamplighter.
The lamplighter works tirelessly, lights the way for other people, and thinks not only about himself. Clean, bright planet. Geographer's Planet.
Literature teacher. The geographer has never been anywhere; if he knows anything, it is only by hearsay. On paper it is a good planet, but in reality it is neglected. Answer the following questions ()
Working with text, telling children about the planet, a model of the planet is attached to the board.
– What planet did the Little Prince come from?
– Why did he clean the volcanoes?
– Why didn’t he like baobabs?
– When was the fairy tale written? (1942–1943)
– What turned out to be as dangerous for our planet as baobabs were for the Little Prince? ( Fascism, aggression, weapons.)
Biology teacher (holding a globe).
Here she is flying, how small she is!
Here she is sad, delving into her thoughts,
Here she floats, blowing with unsteady coolness,
Still lives! Still trusts people.
(Attach a model of the Earth and illustrations to the board.)
Literature teacher. What did the Little Prince see when he came to Earth? ( Desert, rocks, roses, forests.) Why did he cry when he fell into the grass?
– What did you think about after reading the fairy tale? Let's imagine that the Little Prince arrived on Earth today. What would he see on Earth? What “baobab trees” threaten our Earth today?
Students name problems based on newspapers and other sources of information.
The teacher attaches arrows with the listed problems to the model of planet Earth.
Changing the Earth's climate as a result of the increased greenhouse effect.
Reduction of the ozone layer, formation of ozone holes.
Air pollution, acid precipitation.
Pollution of the Ocean, burial of toxic and radioactive substances in it, entry of petroleum products into it, disruption of normal ecological connections between the Ocean and land due to the construction of dams on rivers. Depletion and pollution fresh water
Earth; imbalance between surface and groundwater.
Radioactive contamination associated with the operation of nuclear devices, nuclear weapons testing, etc.
Accumulation of household garbage and industrial waste on the land surface.
Desertification of territories.
Reduction of forest area, leading to an imbalance in the composition of the atmosphere.
Extinction of species of organisms.
Deterioration in quality and reduction in agricultural land area.
Literature teacher.
Overpopulation of the Earth and relative demographic overstrain in certain areas.
All people have one planet,
And the winds have no boundaries on it,
How there are no limits to the flow of light
And the flights of wild birds.
And we need to take care of the planet
For those who will come after us,
And we mindlessly pour out poisons
– What did you think about after reading the fairy tale?
And we poison our house without skimping.
The ozone layer is getting thinner,
And he is the shield of life on earth.
Zones are already growing like ulcers,
Where death lurks in the smoky darkness.
Poisoned waters flow
Along river beds and underground,
The rains are falling from the sky
Sulfuric acid water.
The forests are losing their strength,
The delicate smell of linden leaves.
Lakes that have become graves
They bury schools of fish within themselves.
Literature teacher. I.I. Landau
Why does the little prince return to his planet? What is the wisdom of the fairy tale?
You must be able to be faithful in love and friendship, you cannot be indifferent to what is happening in the world, you cannot be passive towards evil: everyone is responsible not only for their own destiny.
– What would the Little Prince tell us today, what would he advise?
– What did you think about after reading the fairy tale? Living on our land, in our village of Tulgan, we are responsible for what surrounds us. Let's see what problems you have identified in our village.
The problems listed by students are written on the board:
– garbage on the streets, despite the fact that there are trash bins nearby;
– garbage dumps near houses;
– garbage in the hallways;
– homeless animals (cats, dogs);
– pollution of water bodies with garbage.
Opposite each problem, proposed ways to solve it are written down.
– What did you think about after reading the fairy tale?
Take care of the Earth! Take care
Lark at the blue zenith,
A butterfly on a dodder stem,
On the path sun glare,
A crab playing on the stones,
Over the desert the shadow of the baobab tree,
A hawk soaring over a field
A clear month over the river calm.
Take care of the Earth! Take care
The miracle of the songs of cities and villages,
The darkness of the depths and the will of the heavens,
Old age's last joy,
A woman running to a kindergarten
Helpless singing of tenderness
And love has iron patience.
Take care of young shoots
At the green festival of nature,
Sky in stars, ocean and land
And a soul that believes in immortality -
All destinies are connected by threads.
Take care of the Earth! Take care
Time sharp turns,
The joy of inspiration and work,
Ancient kinship living properties,
Tree of hopes and worries,
Revelation of earth and heaven -
The sweetness of life, milk and bread.
Take care of kindness and pity,
So that she fights for the weak.
Take care of the future for the sake of...
M. Dudin
(Children read their own poems about how to save the Earth.)
Literature teacher.“I know one planet, there lives a gentleman with a purple face. He had never smelled a flower in his life. I never looked at a star. “He never loved anyone,” says the Little Prince sadly. He calls: “Get up in the morning, wash your face, put yourself in order - and immediately put your planet in order.” Such simple and useful advice.
To change something in the world, you need to change yours inner world. If you love beautiful things, then support this beauty. To create a garden around yourself, you need to create a garden in your soul.
A biology teacher evaluates students' work.
Homework: write an essay on the topic: “What planet would I like to live on?”
"The fourth planet belonged to a business man" (Chapter XIII), and in the “Ptolemaic series” “belongs” to Venus.
Venus!
And no matter how Exupery tried to show the image of a Mercurian (Virgo) or a Saturnian (Capricorn) in the course of the story, the Venusian inclinations of the inhabitant of the 4th planet of the Little Prince came to an end Chapter XIII obvious.
Although first the image business man draws beautifully, albeit not for long:
« He was so busy that when the Little Prince appeared he didn’t even raise his head.
“Good afternoon,” the Little Prince told him. - Your cigarette has gone out» (Chapter XIII).
Business person?
However, the very next passage makes us think: to what extent is the character of the 4th planet of the little prince “businesslike” :
«- Three and two are five. Five and seven are twelve. Twelve and three are fifteen. Good afternoon. Fifteen and seven - twenty-two. Twenty two and six - twenty eight. There is no time to strike a match.
Twenty six and five - thirty one. Ugh! In total, therefore, five hundred one million six hundred twenty two thousand seven hundred thirty one» (Chapter XIII).
"Office plankton" clerk
Thus, the image of a real, true business person, correlated in classical astrology with Capricorn and Saturn, is suddenly leveled down to a petty clerk, an “office plankton” who “loves precision” according to Virgo and Mercury.
A true business person “does not like precision” and “gets dirty with pennies,” that is, he will not use units in his calculations: he thinks globally, in millions and thousands.
The Little Prince with the question “five hundred million of what?”, rounding up the values he heard, looks more “businesslike” than the aboriginal character of the 4th planet of the Little Prince.
The zodiac Virgo, with her ability to “not see the forest for the trees” in pursuit of single values, correlates with him much more.
Is it a clerk?
But this version does not “live” for long. Right until the next dialogue:
“What are you doing with all these stars?..
... - I don’t do anything. I own them.
- Do you own the stars?
- Yes.
- But I have already seen the king who...
- Kings do not own anything. They only reign. It's not the same thing at all.
- Why do you need to own the stars?
- To be rich.
- Why be rich?
“To buy more new stars if someone discovers them.” (Chapter XIII).
Is it really a banker?
And further:
"-… But I can put them in the bank.
- Like this?
- And so: I write on a piece of paper how many stars I have. Then I put this piece of paper in the box and lock it with a key.
- That's all?
“That’s enough.” (Chapter XIII).
An ordinary grabber...
In other words, the inhabitant of the 4th planet of the Little Prince is not even an accountant or an analyst. So, an ordinary money-grubber and grabber who imagines himself to be an expert in banking...
And when the astrologer hears an interconnected series of phrases “I own”, “to be rich”, “to buy”, “bank”, “I put it in a box” and “I lock it”, there is no other image in front of him except the zodiac Taurus and Venus who rules it. will arise.
That's why Venus, as the fourth planet of the “Ptolemaic series”, ideally correlates with the “business man”, the hero of the 4th planet of the Little Prince .
Venus Score
To conclude, let’s look at the table of its strengths/weaknesses:
Looking ahead, we note that Venus is the ruler of the horoscope: there are no planets with greater status in merit in the chart.
By the way, its location in Taurus, like Mercury in Aries, in signs of a non-multiple nature again indicates the drunkard and the hustler as the only inhabitants of the inhabited planets.
In 1943, the work of interest to us was first published. Let's talk briefly about the background of its creation, and then carry out an analysis. “The Little Prince” is a work whose writing was inspired by one incident that happened to its author.
In 1935, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was involved in a plane crash during a flight from Paris to Saigon. He ended up in a territory located in the Sahara, in its northeastern part. Memories of this accident and the Nazi invasion prompted the author to think about the responsibility of people for the Earth, about the fate of the world. In 1942, he wrote in his diary that he was worried about his generation, devoid of spiritual content. People lead a herd existence. To return spiritual concerns to a person is the task that the writer set for himself.
Who is the work dedicated to?
The story we are interested in is dedicated to Leon Vert, a friend of Antoine. This is important to note when conducting analysis. "The Little Prince" is a story in which everything is filled deep meaning, including dedication. After all, Leon Werth is a Jewish writer, journalist, critic who suffered persecution during the war. Such a dedication was not just a tribute to friendship, but also a bold challenge from the writer to anti-Semitism and Nazism. In difficult times, Exupery created his fairy tale. He fought against violence with words and illustrations, which he hand-created for his work.
Two worlds in the story
Two worlds are presented in this story - adults and children, as our analysis shows. “The Little Prince” is a work in which the division is not made according to age. For example, the pilot is an adult, but he managed to preserve his childish soul. The author divides people according to ideals and ideas. For adults, the most important things are their own affairs, ambition, wealth, power. But a child’s soul yearns for something else - friendship, mutual understanding, beauty, joy. Antithesis (children and adults) helps to reveal the main conflict of the work - the confrontation between two different systems of values: real and false, spiritual and material. It goes deeper further. Having left the planet, the little prince meets “strange adults” on his way, whom he is unable to understand.
Travel and dialogue
The composition is based on travel and dialogue. The big picture the existence of the loser moral values humanity recreates the meeting with the “adults” of the little prince.
The main character travels in the story from asteroid to asteroid. He visits, first of all, the nearest ones, where people live alone. Each asteroid has a number, like a modern apartment multi-storey building. These numbers hint at the separation of people who live in neighboring apartments, but seem to live on different planets. For the little prince, meeting the inhabitants of these asteroids becomes a lesson in loneliness.
Meeting with the King
On one of the asteroids lived a king who, like other kings, looked at the whole world in a very simplified way. For him, his subjects are all people. However, this king was tormented by the following question: “Who is to blame for the fact that his orders are impossible to fulfill?” The king taught the prince that it is more difficult to judge himself than others. Having mastered this, you can become truly wise. The power-hungry loves power, not subjects, and therefore is deprived of the latter.
The Prince Visits the Ambitious Planet
An ambitious man lived on another planet. But vain people are deaf to everything except praise. The ambitious man loves only fame, not the public, and therefore remains without the latter.
Drunkard's Planet
Let's continue the analysis. The little prince ends up on the third planet. His next meeting is with a drunkard, who thinks intently about himself and ends up completely confused. This man is ashamed of his drinking. However, he drinks in order to forget about his conscience.
Business man
The business man owned the fourth planet. As an analysis of the fairy tale “The Little Prince” shows, the meaning of his life was that one should 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 good for his flower and the volcanoes that he owns them. But the stars have no benefit from such possession.
Lamplighter
And only on the fifth planet main character finds someone he wants to be friends with. This is a lamplighter who would be despised by everyone, because he thinks not only about himself. However, his planet is tiny. There's no room for two here. The lamplighter works in vain because he does not know for whom.
Meeting with a geographer
The geographer, who writes thick books, lived on the sixth planet, which was created in his story by Exupery (“The Little Prince”). The analysis of the work would be incomplete if we did not say a few words about it. This is a scientist, and beauty is ephemeral for him. Nobody needs scientific works. Without love for a person, it turns out, everything is meaningless - honor, power, labor, science, conscience, and capital. The little prince also leaves this planet. The analysis of the work continues with a description of our planet.
The Little Prince on Earth
The last place the prince visited was strange earth. When he arrives here, he feels even more lonely title character Exupery's story "The Little Prince". The analysis of a work when describing it should be more detailed than when describing other planets. After all, the author pays special attention to the Earth in the story. He notices that this planet is not home at all, it is “salty”, “all in needles” and “completely dry”. It's uncomfortable to live there. Its definition is given through images that seemed strange to the little prince. The boy notes that this planet is not simple. It is ruled by 111 kings, there are 7 thousand geographers, 900 thousand businessmen, 7.5 million drunkards, 311 million ambitious people.
The protagonist's journey continues in the following sections. He meets, in particular, with the switchman directing the train, but people do not know where they are going. The boy then sees a merchant selling thirst pills.
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 whole. Millions remain strangers to each other. What do they live for? There are a lot of people rushing on fast trains - why? People are not connected by pills or fast trains. And the planet will not become a home without this.
Friendship with Fox
After analyzing Exupery's "The Little Prince", we found out that the boy is bored on Earth. And Fox, another hero of the work, has a boring life. Both of them are looking for a friend. The fox knows how to find him: you need to tame someone, that is, create bonds. And the main character understands that there are no stores where you can buy a friend.
The author describes the life before meeting the boy, which was led by the Fox from the story “The Little Prince”. allows us to note that before this meeting he was only fighting for his existence: he hunted chickens, and hunters hunted him. The fox, having tamed, broke out of the circle of defense and attack, fear and hunger. It is to this hero that the formula “only the heart is vigilant” belongs. Love can be transferred to many other things. Having made friends with the main character, the Fox will fall in love with everything else in the world. The close in his mind is connected with the distant.
Pilot in the desert
It is easy to imagine a planet in habitable places as a home. However, in order to understand what home is, you need to be in the desert. This is precisely what the analysis of Exupery’s “The Little Prince” suggests. In the desert, the main character met a pilot, with whom he later became friends. The pilot ended up here not only because of a malfunction of the plane. He has been enchanted by the desert all his life. The name of this desert is loneliness. The pilot understands important secret: there is meaning in life when there is someone to die for. The desert is a place in which a person feels a thirst for communication and thinks about the meaning of existence. It reminds us that man’s home is the Earth.
What did the author want to tell us?
The author wants to say that people have forgotten one simple truth: They are responsible for their planet, as well as for those they have tamed. If we all understood this, there would probably be no wars or economic problems. But people are very often blind, do not listen to their own hearts, leave their home, seeking happiness far from their family and friends. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry did not write his fairy tale “The Little Prince” for fun. The analysis of the work carried out in this article, we hope, has convinced you of this. The writer appeals to all of us, urging us to take a close look at those who surround us. After all, these are our friends. They must be protected, according to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (“The Little Prince”). Let's finish the analysis of the work here. We invite readers to reflect on this story for themselves and continue the analysis with their own observations.
...The fourth planet belonged to a business man. He was like that
so busy that he didn’t even raise his head when the Little Prince appeared.
“Good afternoon,” the Little Prince told him. - Your cigarette
went out.
- Three and two are five. Five and seven are twelve. Twelve yes
three - fifteen. Good afternoon. Fifteen and seven - twenty-two.
Twenty two and six - twenty eight. There is no time to strike a match.
Twenty six and five - thirty one. Ugh! Total, therefore, five hundred
one million six hundred twenty two thousand seven hundred thirty one.
- Five hundred million of what?
- A? Are you still here? Five hundred million... I don’t know what...
I have so much work! I am a serious person, I have no time for chatter! Two yes
five - seven...
- Five hundred million of what? - repeated the Little Prince: asking about
something, he would not calm down until he received an answer.
The business man raised his head.
- I’ve been living on this planet for fifty-four years now, and in all that time
I was only interrupted three times. For the first time, twenty-two years ago,
A cockchafer flew towards me from somewhere. He made a terrible noise, and then I
made four mistakes in addition. The second time, eleven years ago
ago, I had an attack of rheumatism. From a sedentary lifestyle. To me
no time to walk around. I'm a serious person. The third time... here it is! So,
therefore, five hundred million...
- Millions of what?
The business man realized that he had to answer, otherwise he would have no peace.
- Five hundred million of these little things that are sometimes visible in
air.
- What are these, flies?
- No, they’re so small and shiny.
- Bees?
- No. So small, golden, any lazy person looks at it
on them, and daydreams. And I'm a serious person. I have no time to dream.
- Eh, stars?
- Exactly. Stars.
- Five hundred million stars? What are you doing with them?
- Five hundred one million six hundred twenty two thousand seven hundred
thirty one. I am a serious person, I love accuracy.
- So what are you doing with all these stars?
- What am I doing?
- Yes.
- I'm not doing anything. I own them.
- Do you own the stars?
- Yes.
- But I have already seen the king who...
- Kings do not own anything. They only rule. This is completely different
case.
- Why do you need to own the stars?
- To be rich.
- Why be rich?
- To buy more new stars if someone discovers them.
“He talks almost like a drunkard,” thought the Little Prince.
And he began to ask further:
- How can you own the stars?
- Whose stars are they? - the businessman asked grumpily.
- Don't know. Draws.
- So, mine, because I was the first to think of it.
- Is that enough?
- Well, of course. If you find a diamond that has no owner,
that means he's yours. If you find an island that has no owner, he
is yours. If you are the first to come up with an idea, you take it
there's a patent on it: it's yours. I own the stars because no one before me
I didn’t think to take possession of them.
“That’s right,” said the Little Prince. - And what are you doing with them?
are you doing?
“I dispose of them,” answered the businessman. - I count them and recount them.
It is very difficult. But I'm a serious person.
However, this was not enough for the Little Prince.
- If I have a silk scarf, I can tie it around my neck
and take it with you,” he said. - If I have a flower, I can
pick it up and take it with you. But you can’t take away the stars!
- No, but I can put them in the bank.
- Like this?
- And so: I write on a piece of paper how many stars I have. Then I put this one
I put the piece of paper in the box and lock it with a key.
- That's all?
- That's enough.
“Funny!” thought the Little Prince. “And even poetic. But not
It's that serious."
What is serious and what is not serious - the Little Prince understood this
in their own way, not at all like adults.
“I have a flower,” he said, “and I water it every morning.” U
I have three volcanoes, I clean them every week. I clean all three, and
extinct too. You never know what can happen. And my volcanoes, and my
It is useful for the flower that I own them. And the stars have nothing from you
benefits...
The business man opened his mouth, but could not find anything to answer,
and the little prince went on.
“No, adults really are amazing people,” - innocently
he said to himself as he continued on his way.
