A Research On Authenticity In Saint Exuperv’s Le Petit Prince

People living in the world, there must be a certain faith.Before the nineteenth century.God took the stage of the people’s beliefs.In such a case, people will live together peacefully.but once the faith of God was suspected, seeking the meaning of life and social identity becomes individual’s problem.After Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche announced the death of God, many thinkers try to seek the answer.Le Petit Prince provides some insights into the true ideas for this problem.The main work about the research on authenticity in Saint Exupery’s Le Petit Prince is to combine the theory of the authenticity with this text, thus showing the unique authenticity of Le Petit Prince. In this paper, the unique authenticity of Le Petit Prince is summed up into two aspects:the individual authenticity and the social authenticity.The social authenticity is the more important aspect. The biggest characteristic of the paper is the attention to the individual in societyThe individual authenticity in a person is the quality before he contacts with the external society.According to the behaves of the little prince in his own planet, the writer arrival at a conclusion that the individual authenticity mainly includes two kinds of quality:the ability of aesthetic and the ability of self reflection. The ability of "I" is about the unique aesthetic perspective and latent talent during the childhood. The social authenticity is significant because the difficulty and complexity reaching the balance between the individual and the external world.The nature of the social authenticity in Le Petit Prince is how a person position himself in society to resist social alienation. In Lc Petit Prince, the identity is the relationship to be seen only by heart, and to be established voluntarily. The important characteristics of the individual authenticity is the moral responsibility which is the most important in social communication.It is reflected in Le Petit Prince by the little prince’s love and responsibility to the rose.The whole journey of the little prince is the process to find and return the authenticity.The theory of the authenticity and the writing of Le Petit Prince cannot do without the background of the social reality. which also makes the biggest value of Le Petit Prince lies in its realistic significance. Through the research on authenticity in Saint Exupery’s Le Petit Prince. this paper aims to explore how the individual shaping his own identity in the alienated society. The research on authenticity in Saint Exupery’s Le Petit Prince contributes to the individual finding the useful components for his identity positioning and the moral responsibility, thus thinking of the meaning and value of authenticity.