【導(dǎo)讀】AntoinedeSaint-Exupery(1900-1944)wasborninLyons,France.Ayearafter

　　

【正文】 other’s honor and value. They are all selfish in mon. It is not the real selflove. Erich Fromm believes that, ―selfish is different from selflove essentially.‖ ―Selfish men don’t really love themselves, in fact, they hate themselves.‖(Fromm, 2021:28) They try to get satisfaction from life but failed. They are all unhappy and anxious. So the symbolic meaning of the residents on the five plas is deficient selflove. 7 The lamplighter in the sixth asteroid The symbolic meaning of lamplighter seems to be ―love others‖. The lamplighter is typical example who is unselfish and loyal to his work. He doesn’t care about himself and what he does is totally for others. He obeys order toughly and it is a symptom of ―unselfishness‖. The patient observes all rules and regulations and lives without selfvalue and goal. He is unable to love and appreciate others. He is even hostile to life and others. The world of the adults is estranged through the perspective of the little prince. The little prince realizes love and responsibility The symbolic meaning of the fox is the wise. The little prince es to understand love and responsibility through the fox. The fox is lonely before he meets the little prince. My life is very monotonous, the fox said. I hunt chickens。 men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.‖ So he asks the little prince to tame him. And he tells the little prince some essence of life through simple words. The symbolic meaning of “tame” The symbolic meaning of ―tame‖ is to love and undertake responsibility. ―Tame‖ is to establish ties. The fox tells the little prince that before tamed, the little prince means nothing but a boy who likes a hundred thousand other little boys. However, when he is tamed, they shall need each other and they will to be unique to each other in the world. The fox knows the essence of life and tells the little prince the true meaning of love and responsibility in simple words. ―It is only with the heart that one can see rightly。 what is essential is invisible to the eye. The process of “tame”. As the symbolic meaning of ―tame‖ is love and undertaking responsibility, the process of the ―tame‖ is the process to cultivate love and the sense of responsibility. ―To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered。 because it is 8 she that I have put under the glass globe。 because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen。 because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars (except the two or three that we saved to bee butterflies)。 because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose.‖ Love needs time and patient to cultivate and maintain. It is the time he spends with the rose that cultivates love. He loves the rose as he is tamed and then he should be responsible to the rose. Tamed the fox It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. The little prince e to understand that he has already fell in love with the rose and he should be responsible to the rose. The rose has tamed him. He realizing that love is responsibility. The essence meaning of responsibility is that one is totally willing to do something for someone else. So true love is caring about each other, responsible to each and giving each other happiness. The responsibility of love should be undertaken actively by each other. The little prince really realizes love and responsibility when after he tamed the fox. The little prince finds the true meaning of life and selfvalue The little prince finally finds the true meaning of life and selfvalue after a long travel. It is love and responsibility. The little prince chooses to death to e to love and undertake responsibility. The symbolic meaning of the snake The symbolic meaning of the snake is the horrible and tempting death. It is the first creature the little prince meets when he es to the earth and it tells the little prince some truth of the people on the earth, such as, It is also lonely among men…… The snake is mysterious and deadly. He feels sympathy for the little prince and likes to help him. You move me to pity you are so weak on this Earth made of granite, the snake said. I can help you, some day, if you grow too homesick for your own pla. I can When the little prince wants to e back to his pla, the snake helps him with its venom. It is the snake helps the little prince e to love 9 and responsible. The symbolic meaning of the death of the little prince. The symbolic meaning of the death of the little prince is the sublimation of love and responsibility. Antoine de SaintExupery gives a sorrowful end to the story. You understand... it is too far. I cannot carry this body with me. It is too heavy. So he asks for the snake with poison. It is a perfect state of love and beauty to exceed the death. The death of the little prince leaves a revelation that the extreme point of love and responsibility is devoting the life to it. The little prince chooses to leave his body to death is pursuing the desire in his heart and the meaning of his life. His behavior and thoughts can not be isolated from his ideal and desire. The end of the novella is sad but meaningful. There are two factors of he little prince chooses to death. Firstly, the little prince realizes the true meaning of life and decides to return back to his love. Secondly, the little prince is so disappointed with human nature. He is so pure and faithful that he can’t blend himself into the world which full of material