Fables
Many fables contain the following points:
A fable is a story which shows something in life or has a meaning to a word. It is a funny story and you can learn a moral from it. Many fables are well-known. Animals are often used in fables, they always keep the same character in the stories.
- animals and plants are "people"
- topics of the fables are human weaknesses eg greed,envy, stupidity and vanity etc
- usually there are only two animals in a fable
- no exact time in the fable
- no exact place in the fable
- fables are short
- fables do not have any exact descriptions
- they are in the past tense
- they deal with the real life of human beings
- some fables criticize important people indirectly eg kings
- fables have a moral at the end
- fables have three parts - the beginning (title, description of situation), statement and contradiction (argument, discussion), solution (solution and moral of fable)
- not all fables contain all three parts
Animal characters
Lion - noble
Fox - cunning
Peacock - proud
Horse - brave
Wolf - fierce
Donkey - hard-working
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