Loneliness In Aesop's Fables

One thing that can change a man is meeting another, as this gives him the opportunity of having a friend and not being alone. A person who is lonely will always search for a friendship. In Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, the characters Crooks, Lennie, and Curley’s wife all exemplify loneliness and isolation.They all search for a bond in their own way.

Loneliness is a revolving topic throughout the book. Many characters are impacted by it and this changes the outcome of the book. In Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, he develops the concept of loneliness through Candy's disability, Crooks unable to fit in, and Curley's wife in order to demonstrate that loneliness impacts people by causing anger and depression.

What is a beast fable? Obviously a tale about animals, but one where "animals are used as embodiments or caricatures of human virtues, vices, prudences, and follies ... and the other typical qualities of mankind. They are generally brief cautionary anecdotes that use the obvious resemblances between man and animals to point a moral or push a proverb home entertainingly"3.

Of Mice and Men’ is written by John Steinbeck. The novel is set in the 1930s during the great depression in California, America. Loneliness is the consistent theme running through the novel, relating as it does to the other themes namely: broken dreams and prejudice. Steinbeck illustrates through Curley's wife, Candy, and Crooks, three main characters of the novel the great negative effect of loneliness on humans. All the characters encounter and face problems and negative feelings due to their deep loneliness and isolation. This is counterbalanced very cleverly through the friendships between George and Lennie, two main characters in the novel.

“Middle aged adults who live alone have a 24% increased risk of dying of heart disease”, according to a 2012 Harvard study. This shows that loneliness does not only affect you mentally but also physically. Being lonely makes your stress levels rise because of the lack in somebody to talk to. In Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck, he develops the concept of loneliness through Crooks, Candy, and Curley's wife, to show the negative impact of loneliness on somebody's life.

After reading many short stories and poems written by Edgar Allan Poe, I have come to conclusion that Poe’s sense of writing is gruesome and always ends in heart break. Throughout many of his writings, there almost always is an involvement of blood, hence the fact that all of his loved one’s deaths involved tuberculosis, which is known to be a bloody disease. Each story portrays the loneliness he felt and how many mental problems he truly had. Problems with gambling, alcohol, depression, anxiety, and most of all not being able to find the love he truly needed in order to have a happy life.

 What I love most about fables is that each one of them comes with a moral, the positive or negative interpretation of a story that always leaves a life lesson. The reaction generated from a fable’s moral depends on the individuals’ knowledge about life; each person will interpret a moral differently because each one has lived a different life. Fables are also carried on from generation to generation and have a purpose that is to entertain. These short stories are made up with animals or inanimate objects representing humans. Fables are used as a teaching tool for young children and even for adults. “According to some scholars Aesop could have been African American because of his many references to animals.” (“Aesop” Encyclopedia of World Biography, par 2). There are many hypotheses on what or who Aesop could have been. There was also a rumor that he was a slave and got free because of his extraordinary story telling abilities (“Aesop” Encyclopedia of World Biography, par 5). A fable is simply a synonym of allegory. Over the years fables have maintained their position as a helpful tool to many teachers around the world to help students. Fables continue to be very appealing to the public. They soon begun to disperse around the world and started being translated in many languages. Considering my age, one of the fables that we, teenagers, have to keep in

Aesop even wrote his first word, Aesop’s fables were perhaps the most influential on the

Tammy Chung Ms. Hottie Dollenberg 9ELB 17 May. 2018 The Importance of Animal Imagery Have you ever read a book that has animals as the characters in it? Using animals as characters or using the characteristics, instincts, and behavior in writing a book is called animal imagery. Writers often use animal imagery as characters or to describe the condition of the characters in a story. Animal imagery is an important part of literature, movies, and storytellings.

The Native American Totems, along with other cultural teachings, are what influenced many authors to write about animal symbolism. Prior to written languages, ancient peoples told animal stories by drawing symbolic visual narratives on the walls of their cave homes. These early

Many fables have good and bad animal characters to convey the good things that come from good actions, and the bad things from bad actions. The majority of the fables you will read will have characters that show what happens to the good animal and what happens to the bad one. Stories like, the tortoise and the hare, the bat and the birds, the dog and the wolf, and the fox and the goat are just a few to name. In all of them however we see the good that comes from being someone good and the bad for the bad character. This is what conveys the moral and shows the reader how you want to be. These animals help show the moral because as animals we feel for them and it shows us what happens when you’re good or bad. And it is also easier for kids to relate to animals rather than anything else because they get attached to them and since fables

Aesop's fables have taught important life lessons to generations of people. These fables may seem very simple, although their teachings can be applied to every human being. The meaning of the fables is very straight forward and easy to comprehend, which makes them easy to apply to multiple situations. Numerous complex problems that we are faced with can be answered by the meaning of these fables. Aesop's fables act as a compass that can help you navigate through life to make you think about the decisions you choose. Even with the fables being short in length, they provide a wealth of intuitive thought. Knowledge can be difficult to pass down from generation to generation, however having the fables be short in length makes them easier to be transferred. The morals of western civilization are embodied in Aesop's fables.

Some may say that Aesop is infamous for the life he led over 2000 years ago and mostly for the hundreds of fables that have been attributed to his name since. Aesop’s fables have reached countless generations since he is reported to have been alive, and they continue to be a part of the lives of many. Not every fable, however, that has been linked to Aesop is his own original material. In actuality, there are many fables attributed to Aesop that, for a variety of reasons, couldn’t possibly be his own. In many ways the unclear authorship of the fables is at the fault of the storytelling tradition, many details are naturally lost and/or altered. However the storytelling tradition is also responsible for the survival of the Aesop Fables—if

In This study I’m gonna explore the motifs and interpretation of the Sleeping Beauty from a Jungian framework.

This is an idea or motto that I, to a point, have chosen to live by. I am aware that some believe this idea to be a rebellion against the word of God but there are also those who believe it to be actual scripture or a theme of the bible. In fact, “81% of Americans believe this statement comes right from the Bible. 75% of teenagers said that this is the central theme of Scripture. Sadly, half of all Christians believe that the Bible teaches this. Amazingly, this phrase topped another poll as the most widely known Bible verse.” ( 2 ). This idea is a bit scary to me because, as a Christian, I understand the importance and necessity of relying and having a relationship with God. If I were a non-Christian looking at this idea I would more than likely believe that this would make it unnecessary to believe in this ‘God’ if all I have to do is help myself and everything would go my way. However, I still feel that for Christians this is an important phrase to understand in a Christian sense and integrate into our own lives.