【正文】 of leaving home of the little prince is escaping from iv love. 2) the symbolic meanings of residents in the six plas are ―selflove‖ and ―love others‖ .3) begin to understand love and responsibility through the fox—the symbol of the wise. 4)find the real meaning of life and self value, namely love and responsibility. In the third part, make a conclusion about the realistic meaning of this research. 3. Literature Review： There are a large number of outstanding scholars who have made their studies on Analysis the Symbolic Meanings of The Little Prince. Among the foreign researchers, for example, Paul Webster focused on the research of the life and death of the little prince in 1967, he believes that the life and death of the little prince symbolize the experience of Antoine de SaintExupery。 S L Ablon carried on the studies on Child analysis and The Little Prince in 1989, she researched the children psychology through behavior and thoughts of the little prince. In China, the study of this field has also got much attention. For instance, Ling Xuedong studied The Little Prince from the point of view of symbolism play an important role in developing the work。s highest literary awards， such as Prix Femina and Le grand prix de litt233。Acad233。aise and also won the . National Book Award. He is best remembered for his novella The Little Prince. The Little Prince, known as ―The French Rose‖ is loved by both children and adults since it was published. The work is so charming and successful has many factors and the use of various symbolic meanings in most important one of them. Antoine de SaintExupery connects his work with the real life and improved his thoughts through symbolism. The Little Prince is not only a world famous philosophic fairy tale, but also a fable pregnant with the meaning of life. The little prince, the main character in the book, is distressed, and then he explores what is meaningful to him. In the process of the experience, he observes those ―adults‖ who are occupied with a lot of valueless things such as hunting for power, being vain and searching for too much owning, working and learning. The little prince pursues the true value of life and true love without any obstacle. The subject of this thesis is mainly about the little prince’s course of realizing love and responsibility by analyzing symbolic meanings in the book. It begins with escaping from the love restricting, experiencing the course of taming others, and ended with returning of love and responsibility. In the society of lacing of human touch, searching for love and responsibility has a profound meaning indeed. Key words: symbolic meaning。 Antoine de Saint Exupery。 philosophic fairy tale ii 摘要 安東尼 圣 埃克蘇佩里是法國著名的作家，詩人和飛行員。 《小王子》為其最著名的作品。這部作品之所以如此有魅力， 原因很多作者對(duì)于象征主義手法的成功運(yùn)用便是其中之一 。 它是一本世界著名的哲理童話，更是一部寓意生命的寓言。在他的旅途中，他發(fā)現(xiàn) “ 大人 ” 們一直在追求一些毫無意義的東西，比如：權(quán)勢(shì)、名譽(yù)、地位。在當(dāng)今這個(gè)處處都是人心荒漠的時(shí)代，探尋愛與責(zé)任的主題具有深刻的意義。 德 e de l39。s armistice with Germany in 1940. After being demobilized from the French Air Force he voyaged to the United States to convince its government to quickly enter the war against Nazi Germany. Following a 27month hiatus in North America during which he wrote three of his most important works, he joined the Free French Air Force in North Africa although he was far past the maximum age for such pilots and in declining health. He disappeared over the Mediterranean on his last assigned reconnaissance mission in July 1944, and is believed to have died at that time. Prior to the war he had achieved fame in France as an aviator. His writing career links closely with his experience as an aviator. His literary works mainly includes: The Aviator。 The Little Prince。 A Sense of Life Wind, Sand and Stars. Among them The Little Prince, translated into more than languages and dialects, and propelled his stature posthumously allowing him to achieve national hero status in France. His six works all about flight and he observes the world and life in the height of the outer space. He is the pioneer who cares about the situation of human in the history modern literature. An earlier memoir by the author recounted his aviation experiences in the Sahara desert and he is thought to have drawn on those same experiences for use as plot elements in The Little Prince. The Little Prince was republished many times since it first published in New York in 1943. It bees the most popular book all over the world only second to the bible. Since first being published the novella has been translated into more than 100 languages and adapted to various media over the 2 decades, including audio recordings, stage, screen, ballet and operatic works. Though ostensibly a children39。s, 1987:67) It reflects the human experience and survival significance in the plain text through symbolism. For example, SaintExupery tells of a fox meeting the little prince during his travels on Earth. The story39。phane Mallarm233。70s. In the 1880s, the aesthetic was articulated by a series of manifestos and attracted a generation of writers. The Little Prince is a successful work well developed through symbolism. ―Symbolism can be seen everywhere in the book which is clear and obscure and it makes the fable very beautiful and charming.‖(Morova, 1987: 83) A connect his work with the real life through symbolism and makes his work philosophical by improving his thought. The work is full of poetic flavor, grief and loneness. It reflects the human experience and survival significance in the plain text. The Little Prince was written in the middle of the twentieth century, during Second World War. It is a period people lost spiritual pillar and mind was polluted by the modern civilization. People found it was hardly to seek the real meaning of life and became more loneliness. ―The