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The title character and protagonist of "The Remarkable Rocket" is a firework who has a highly inflated opinion of himself. He considers all of the other characters with whom he interacts, the other fireworks, a frog, a dragonfly and a duck, to be his inferiors and criticizes them for not paying sufficient attention to him. The Rocket considers himself to be an unappreciated genius and firmly believes that he is destined for greatness. However, he fails to fulfill his only function, that of entertaining people by rising up into the air and exploding in front of an audience.

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  • The title character and protagonist of "The Remarkable Rocket" is a firework who has a highly inflated opinion of himself. He considers all of the other characters with whom he interacts, the other fireworks, a frog, a dragonfly and a duck, to be his inferiors and criticizes them for not paying sufficient attention to him. The Rocket considers himself to be an unappreciated genius and firmly believes that he is destined for greatness. However, he fails to fulfill his only function, that of entertaining people by rising up into the air and exploding in front of an audience.
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  • The title character and protagonist of "The Remarkable Rocket" is a firework who has a highly inflated opinion of himself. He considers all of the other characters with whom he interacts, the other fireworks, a frog, a dragonfly and a duck, to be his inferiors and criticizes them for not paying sufficient attention to him. The Rocket considers himself to be an unappreciated genius and firmly believes that he is destined for greatness. However, he fails to fulfill his only function, that of entertaining people by rising up into the air and exploding in front of an audience. "The Remarkable Rocket" contains a good deal of the kind of witty social commentary for which Oscar Wilde is famous but which is more usually associated with his works for adults, such as "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime", The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest. For example, when the Rocket complainss to the frog that they have not had a conversation because the frog did all the talking, the frog replies, "I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time and prevents arguments." When the Rocket protests that he likes arguments, the frog comes back with, "Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions." A very faithful 24-minute animated adaptation of "The Remarkable Rocket", narrated by David Niven, was made by Potterton Productions of Canada and released in 1975.
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