What is a fable?
Do you remember the lines: "When there is no agreement in the comrades, their business will not work out in harmony, and nothing will come of it, only flour ..." One of the fables of the most famous fabulist of Russia, Ivan Andreevich Krylov, begins. And it tells about how absolutely different animals tried to do one thing, without even trying to agree. And what is a fable? Perhaps every schoolboy in primary school knows the answer to this question. Let's remember it, and we are with you.
What is a fable: definition
Fables are called poetic or prosaicA literary work that has an instructive satirical character. And actors in fables are most often not people, but animals. And these animals are quite human qualities: fox - cunning, sov - wisdom, crayfish - stubbornness, and monkeys - stupidity.
Fables appeared in the Ancient World - in the 6th-5th centuriesBC. Let us recall the fable of the famous ancient Greek philosopher Aesop. And from the very beginning of its existence, fables taught people. What do fables teach?
Fables and their use
The fact that the fables are ridiculed, you can say verylong. First of all, fables ridicule human vices: lies, immorality, laziness, stupidity, boasting, ignorance. In the heroes of fables, each person finds an animal that looks like himself.
The situations described by the authors in the fables are always very vital, and therefore any person is able to transfer them to their own lives, which means finding one of the vices and correcting it.
In addition, due to satirical, ironicthe note of the fable the reader not only learns to understand his vices and correct them, but also to laugh at himself. This sense of humor, of course, is extremely useful for a person's psychological health. One Jewish proverb says: "Those who know how to laugh at themselves are blessed, for the source of their sweet will not be exhausted until the end of their days."
The moral of this fable is this: read the fables, laugh at yourself and become wiser, more humane, far-sighted. And let your desire always reach the purpose of appointment. Good luck!
