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The remarkable rocket

Main ideas of the story

Arrogance

Fame

High Society and Snobbery

The eponymous rocket, created to honor a royal wedding, is believed to be the most important and admirable individual who has ever lived. the rocket entertains a series of delusions that allow it to maintain its belief in its own greatness. However, he is not alone in this. The King and the Frog are equally obsessed with their own sense of personal importance, which makes each one of them live in an unusual reality, which prevents the characters from seeing how everything is actually because they are locked in his own arrogance and ego.

The story occurs in the midst of high society characters, Oscar Wilde the author shows high-class society and its ceremonies and positions as hollow, The description of the author of high society is great events without any meaning. During the royal wedding, a smart young man twice makes remarks that delight the audience and become the Court's speech. In response, the King twice declares that the Page's salary is doubled, causing even more delight, even though the Page does not generate any kind of money.

The only purpose of the rocket in life is to be famous, admired. Rocket not only wants this, but believes he deserves it, which is his right due to his greatness and impressive lineage. In Rocket's eyes, such success and fame is his inevitable end. Unfortunately, the Rocket's ego and the security of his own destiny become his ruin, loneliness and isolation are the consequence of a vain search for fame.