Characters Of The Little Prince By Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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Characters Of The Little Prince By Antoine De Saint-Exupery

CHARACTERS OF THE LITTLE PRINCE – In this topic, we are going to know and identify the following characters of The Little Prince.

CHARACTERS OF THE LITTLE PRINCE
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The Little Prince, also known as Le Petit Prince in French, is a fable written by French aviator and writer Antoine De Saint-Exupery.

The story is about a little prince who travels the universe and gaining wisdom and encounters the narrator.

Characters

According to GradeSaver, there are about 11 known characters in the story, including the narrator, the titular little prince, inhabitants of their planet, and two animals from Earth. Here are the following:

  • The Narrator | Aviator
    • He is the narrator of the story and the voice of Exupery himself. He has naivety and great imagination when he was a kid and lived his adult life as an aviator.
  • The Little Prince
    • The titular main protagonist of the story. He lives in an asteroid named B-612 where a rose also lives. He is the representation of the fantasy world and the voice of children in the adult world.
  • The Rose
    • The vain flower of Asteroid B-612 which the little prince tended. She represents a stereotypical view of women: fickle, flighty, self-absorbed, flirtatious, and contradictory.
  • The King of Asteroid B-325
    • The monarch who claims he owns everything and his power is absolute, albeit his only subject is a rat.
  • The Vain Man of Asteroid B-326 | The Conceited Man of Asteroid B-326
    • This man believes he is the most intelligent, handsomest, and brightest of the planet, yet he is the only inhabitant of the planet.
  • The Drunkard of Asteroid B-327
    • He lives alone and drinks his bottle to forget that he is ashamed of drinking.
  • The Businessman of Asteroid B-328
    • A big busy man who spends his time counting the stars he claims he owns.
  • The Street Lamp Lighter of Asteroid B-329
    • He lights the lamp at sunset from his planet. Yet he has to keep on switching his lamps on and off due to the rapid turning of the planet.
  • The Geographer of Asteroid B-330
    • An old man who collects information of other planets from explorers who come to him. He was the one who told the Little Prince to visit Earth.
  • The Fox
    • A wild creature whom the prince, at the fox’s request, tames.
  • The Snake
    • A poisonous creature who told the prince that he can return to his planet with a bite from the snake.

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