Wednesday, August 29, 2007

What is a fable?

Next class, we will be talking about fables (in particular, those of Marie de France). In your own words, what is a fable? ...

6 comments:

Unknown said...

They are short stories, usually with animals, used to illustrate a moral and sometimes are analogous to societal issues of the day.

AKWhite said...

Fables are stories that are used by the author to portray a moral that is significant to the era in which it is written. The stories are fictional and express the importance of this moral through the character and the events that they encounter.

Courtney said...

In my opinion, fables are short works of poetry or occasionally prose that serve to teach a lesson through personification of animals, insects and just about anything you can think of. Aesop and Jean de la Fontaine are two of the most well known Fablists (And I hope I just made up my own word) Most of these lessons were used to mainly teach lessons in the era they were written, but many of their meanings are still very prevalent today.

Anonymous said...

Fables are shorts tales with a lesson to be learned. They are sometimes stories about important people. The characters are rarely human but given personification to.

Marja H-D said...
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Marja H-D said...

A fable is a short story in which the actions or qualities of beasts or inanimate objects are made to reflect human traits.They are usually used with a moral objective