Group work taming the tame

Taming the Tamed

Character analysis of Fox by Antoine Saint de Exupery

Friendship can only be attained by investing love in others.

In the stories of Little Prince, there was an encounter with a fox in a certain planet. The Fox is a supporting character in the story and only serves as a foil, but its personality and its importance in the story remains important as it plays a big role in The Little Prince’s Departure while shaping the Little Prince’s personality too.

The Fox appeared out of nowhere upon its encounter with The Little Prince. The Fox later answers Little Prince’s mourning of the ordinariness of his rose, after the latter stumbled upon a rose garden. As they begin to develop friendship, the Fox imparts the Prince with the knowledge and understanding about why the Rose is so important to him, therefore serving its role as foil character, exploring more into The Little Prince and a bit of The Rose personality.

However, the Fox itself is not a simple character. Its relationship with the Prince as both mentor and student happens because of its wisdom, knowledge and loyalty. The Fox, as we might see, is an interpretation of Friendship, despite the real animal fox being a stereotype of cunning and twisted wit. However, the twist of this fact means so much, speaking of trusting others despite however they may appear or look. The Fox’s unshaken loyalty upon its taming, the Little Prince’s departure, and even enriching the Little Prince’s with necessary understanding, the Fox is but a selfless and pure caring, the true meaning of friendship. Unlike what we may experience in life, whereas friendship involves in giving and gaining, “mutual relation”, or so they say.

Finally, like any other supporting characters and the main characters in the Little Prince’s story, the Fox explores in depth about us (the readers, mankind) and our way of living. Its personality is an example of true friendship that perhaps in our life, has become so insipid and even bitter, much feared. And as we now understand, perhaps it will come back to us with some other important question:
Can friendship become more than even loyalty, trust and care? Something like an intimate love for each other?