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Anthropomorphic cat guarding geese, Egypt, c. 1120 BCE. Fable is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or ...
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Walter Crane's illustration from Baby's Own Aesop, 1887. The Fir and the Bramble is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 304 in the Perry Index. [1] It is one of a group in which trees and plants debate together, which also includes The Trees and the Bramble and The Oak and the Reed.
In the United States the fable was applied to a case of corrupt lobbying in a Puck cartoon for 23 July 1913. [24] Under the title 'Even a rat may help free a lion', the House of Representatives is shown enmeshed in the nets of "Lobbyism", from which Colonel (Martin) Mulhall is about to free it by his revelations of bribe-taking. [25]
Fables, Ancient and Modern contains translations of the First Book of Homer's Iliad, eight selections from Ovid's Metamorphoses, three of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (and an imitation from the Prologue on "The Character of a Good Parson"), the later medieval poem The Flower and the Leaf, which he thought was by Chaucer, and three ...
Chanticleer and the Fox is a fable that dates from the Middle Ages. Though it can be compared to Aesop's fable of The Fox and the Crow, it is of more recent origin.The story became well known in Europe because of its connection with several popular literary works and was eventually recorded in collections of Aesop's Fables from the time of Heinrich Steinhowel and William Caxton onwards.
The fable was given further currency in La Fontaine's Fables (V. 3). [ 2 ] The popularity of the fable in England was eventually overtaken by the similar story " The Hawk and the Nightingale ", which had the advantage of being reinforced by the proverb "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush".
The moral drawn from the fable by Babrius was that "Brotherly love is the greatest good in life and often lifts the humble higher". In his emblem book Hecatomgraphie (1540), Gilles Corrozet reflected on it that if there can be friendship among strangers, it is even more of a necessity among family members. [4]