Fables and Parables

Parables, fables, folktales, anecdotes, and fairy tales are the earliest of short stories written (Kirszner & Mandell, 2012). Short stories are not as long as novels, only going into the specific and certain details as necessary. Reading the five short stories and comparing notes on two in particular, “I Stand Here Ironing,” written by Tillie Olsen, would happen to be the best short story. Although not in the same time period, hard working single mothers are able to relate to the short story in today’s

The Khasis had no written literature of their own in the past but they had many wise sayings, proverbs, incantations, fables and folk songs which were in oral form. These forms are transmitted from father to son so as to have great vision and thought; it is also kept in the memory of the listener. Khasi had been pre-literate till attempts were made by William Carey, a

Journey the Wardrobe of Parallels The “Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” is a fantasy novel written by C. S. Lewis. The fairytale is set in a magical world with no limits to the imagination. Endangered by World War II, four siblings named Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy where sent by their mom to live with Professor Kirke in a big house in the countryside of London. In the house there are many rooms and many doors. While playing hide-in-seek, the youngest child, Lucy discovers

contemporary life. He believes that the significance of myth never dies. In an age of post modernism and globalization, he observes people’s craze for materialism and their simulation of western civilization. So as conscious dramatists, he valorized myths, parables, legends and folktales in his plays. He rewrites them in his plays as they provide immense scope for living. While he uses mythical episodes in his plays he significantly aims at using them for social, religious and philosophical purpose. He presents

elephant is seen as serving as a mount or vehicle to gods. Along with being a mode of transport, they symbolize power and wisdom. This association is also prominent in their use in ancient battles in India. Elephants have also appeared prominently in parables. The well-known story of the Blind Men and an Elephant has been told in various cultures and religions (. In Hinduism, the elephant is very celebrated because it a demigod and they have different festivals to honor is life.

“He stood triumphant, the head of his enemy dangling in his bloodied hand.” In one line you know what type of story this came from. This is the climactic scene, the hero has defeated the villain. You also have a basic idea of what has happened throughout the story. You know that the hero, who is faultless, has been challenged or threatened by something or somebody that is nothing but evil. The hero has gone through many trials and undergone personal change and reflection, all of which have led to

For as long as man has learned to fear, whopping frights have existed. Some of these were entirely born from fables, others based upon biased knowledge of the world. Legends of many ancient beasts survive for a multitude of generations. Of course we realize these humongous horrors are as real as fairy tales, but they serve a greater purpose than to ignite terror in people- they mean to educate. While mere folktales, such as the bogeyman, keep toddlers in bed at night, authors for mature audiences

use of power on the farm appears through Old Major, symbolic of Communism's founding father Karl Marx, ‘the prize winning boar .’ He is a personality whom the animals have a lot of respect for and his speech, embedded with political rhetoric, is a parable for Marx’s Communist Manifesto - the basis of the Soviet Russia. Orwell employs repetition of historical allusive, inclusive pronoun ‘comrades’ and uses this allegory, not to just imply to the Russian Revolution, but to also create a sense of animals

action in the present.” How one can accomplish this is a difficult question; William Cronan gives a good mechanism, when he says “environmental history is at least as important for the way it asks and answers questions - by analogy, metaphor, and parable and the search to discover their meanings - than for any specific problems it may actually solve.” In this way, Diana Davis’ Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa and David Blackbourn’s

In the timeless classic The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald describes the prevalent, rich culture of high society in the East Coast and uses the life of Jay Gatsby to disclose the trappings in this social structure. After he returned from World War I, Fitzgerald wrote this book when America was entering a new age of dreams. With his earlier success of This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald’s lived a lifestyle that closely resembled Gatsby’s extravagant social ambitions. Since Fitzgerald was from