Analysis on the Little Prince Using Jungian Archetypes

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in the Desert of Sahara, six years ago. … It was a question of life or death for me: I had

scarcely enough drinking water to last a week.” This situation became dire at the latter part of the story where the

narrator run out of water. This pressed the narrator and the Little Prince to look for a well on the desert. Water

signified as rebirth, became evident when the narrator was able to repair his plane and it reawakens his hope to

return to the civilization. As for the Little Prince that day was the anniversary of his descent on the earth and he

was back where he started his journey on earth. On the symbolic part of the desert, which is the opposite of the

rebirth, the part of the story has become evident as the end of the Little Prince’s journey as he left his shell of a

body in order to return to his planet. In this scene it seemed the Little Prince died, however he explained: “…I

shall look as if I were dead; and that will not be true." And "But it will be like an old abandoned shell…” this scene showed that

the Little Prince has come full circle and his adventure is ending and in order for him to go back to his planet he

had to leave the shell of his body behind.

This paper’s exploration of the character, situation, and symbolic archetypes found on the story of The

Little Prince made it more than just a book for children. The Little Prince and the narrator’s description of the

life of adults and this details add depth to the story and it may well be observed as written for grown-ups.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery,

The Little Prince