The fable is a genre that has always had an illustrative, educational or critical purpose. It is a short story or narrative in prose and verse, aiming to provide a clear final moral.
Therefore, the argument should not be complicated to follow. The story’s beginning, body, and end make up a logical whole that irremediably explains a life lesson or final moral that is taken as indisputable truth. As for the characters, the most remarkable feature of the fable is that they are humanized animals or natural elements, that is, with human characteristics. The fable also frequently resorts to satire and humor.
Characteristics of the fable
- Its allegorical character applied to the human world through the fantasy of the animal an world.
- The moral intention since it evaluates certain conduct.
- The brevity of the story. The Aesopian collections show an austere and simple style, typical of literature with oral origin.
- Diffusion, there is a double tradition, the classical and the Hindu.
