Aesop's Fables

How does Greek Mythology Gods, art and fables fit into our lives? People today have told so many stories about the Greek God Hades that it’s hard to figure out which ones are close to the truth. Well, as close to the truth as it can get because they are myths. Let’s start from the beginning. Hades, the brother of Zeus and Poseidon, Was kicked out and banished to the underworld where he became ruler of the dead. One of the main things people get confused about is the simple fact that Hades is not…

work, I created a story about a dystopian world, Rodentopia, based on Aesop’s fables and The Giver. In this world, a mouse named Mr.Johnson, has to hear the harsh reality of Rodentopia from authoritative figures also known as “The Four Eldest Rogues”. These Rogues, who are mice themselves, tells Mr.Johnson that his newborn baby is not allowed in Rodentopia, because he is a fox. Through their misinterpretation of Aesop’s fables, they told Mr.Johnson all foxes are the root of all evil and…

uses several different examples of authors and their stories to show how they teach children about lying. Aesop’s fables, such as “The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf,” are the first stories that LaBounty uses to support his claim. Aesop’s fables are used to discuss how being honest is always better than lying and that lying can have negative effects on characters. After introducing Aesop’s fables LaBounty discusses how parents want their children to be honest, but that not all lies are bad. LaBounty…

In Aesop’s fable The Eagle and the Arrow an eagle who has been shot with an arrow discovers that the fletchings are made of his own feathers. The moral of this fable is that we often provide our enemies with the tools to destroy us. In William Shakespeare’s King Lear, we see many examples of this same theme. Lear dividing his kingly powers between his two selfish daughters, Goneril writing about her love for Edmund in a letter anyone could read, and Gloucester telling Edmund where he has stashed…

But colloquial as it may be, Mrs. Aesop’s chatty voice hardly sounds like the voice of a woman who lived around 600 BC… this is the poet’s representation of that speaking subject, and once again, the social critique can be directed towards male-female relationships within the poet’s own world…

Four time winner of New York Times Best Illustrated Award, Jerry Pinkney has now recreated for us one of aesop's fables about a friendship between a mouse and a lion. The timeless story is one in which has no worlds, except for the ever so often use of a descriptive sound. Younger friends will have to interpret the brilliant works of art showing an odd relationship between a king of the jungle and a mouse. This picture book starts out with a giant and dangerous lion sparing the tiny powerless…

Absent from ‘The World of Pond Stories’ by Dr. Stewart Bitkoff are politically-polarizing statements that these days pass for mainstream discussion and describe the plethora media sound bytes that seemingly inundate my day to day life. In other words, reading these stories was a refreshing reprieve from the endless cycle of jingoistic and sensationalistic rhetoric. To further elaborate, I found at the heart of each story an open-ended reflection oftentimes, at least in my initial reading, an…

own similarities to the characters in the story. These type of stories would be classified as fables, conveying a moral with unrealistic situations, but Marquez has a very unique style that separates him from the average Aesop’s Fable. Which brings us to the two short stories we'll be talking about today, which are two prime examples of Marquez special ability to create such a different style of fables. The setting of both stories are pretty much the same, in a small coastal village filled with…

backgrounds, linked by common symbolism and human experience. An allegory is defined by Merriam-Webster as, “the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence.” Common examples range from, Aesop’s “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” to C.S. Lewis’s series, The Chronicles of Narnia. Often, such works contain religious themes, which are not always interpreted as the author intended. Upon consulting interviews and personal commentary on the…

Toni Morrison has extensively drawn in the fairytales into her novel Home. Home tells the story of two siblings, Frank and Cee, Morrison’s true Hansel and Gretel, on their the quest to find the way home. Frank and Cee are not abandoned as Hansel and Gretel, but they are left to the care of their grandparents, who neglect them. Frank and Cee raise themselves, as “some forgotten Hansel and Gretel, locked hands they navigated the silence and tried to imagine a future”(). Morrison fuses the…