Jean de La Fontaine

from the fables attributed to Aesop. The first edition of these were published by the Frenchman Pierre Pithou in 1596. Due to these two people and numerous others, Jean de la Fontaine was inspired to write 12 books of fables in Vers libres. La Fontaine was a poet well known, especially, for his fables. It is worth mentioning that La Fontaine wrote in

communicate to one another varies from one group of people to another based on cultures and ethnicity. This can be seen very clearly through our actions, and more specifically, through the stories told to children growing up; fables. The fables “La Cigale et la Fourmi,” a French take on “The

burden of duty takes over, the passion for beauty slowly deteriorates. Exchanging beauty for duty sounds inhumane. But I can assure you it is not as bad it sounds. As I am writing this I am reminded of a quote by Jean de La Fontaine, “Patience and time do more than passion.” What Fontaine is saying is that patience and time, which could be synonyms for duty, provide you with more in the long run. The passion for

The first witch I interviewed identifies as a natural eclectic empath witch. This means that her skills were not learned; she was a born empath. Next, the eclectic part of this means that she takes different facets of different crafts and incorporates them into her own craft. She defines being an empath as “someone that can feel people's feelings and energies and it effects them as such.” She states that this can make her magick stronger, because she is using the emotions of the person for whom the

Life Lessons for Today’s Teens The Crow and the Pitcher By Evan Graff Aesop was a Greek storyteller, credited with the writing of several short stories. These stories were put together in a book and are known as Aesop’s fables. This particular story is based on a thirsty crow and a pitcher. The Crow & the Pitcher In a spell of dry weather, when the Birds could find very little to drink, a thirsty Crow found a pitcher with a little water in it. But the pitcher was high and had a narrow neck, and

Aesop was a fablist who compiled many short stories over his lifetime. He used the saying, “birds of a feather flock together.” in one of his short stories. Many historical documents claim Aesop was not a real person. Some say that he was a slave and Plutarch made him adviser to Croesus, the king of Lydia at the time. One tradition holds that he came from Thrace. The most likely story is that the name was invented to be associated with fables. The fables Aesop wrote were made more for a moral lesson

In Aesop’s fable “The Town Mouse and The Country Mouse” the two mice from very different environments share a meal in each of their homes. But each environment comes with its positives and its negatives. In “The fox and the Grapes” the fox tries to jump to reach grapes that were hanging on a branch off a tree. After numerous of attempts he tells himself that the grapes were to sour anyway. In these two fables the animals were trying to eat but something was holding them back. Aesop’s fables have

The Greek fables that were written in the past still inspire us today. Well lets just say that their are a lot of lessons inside of these fables and myths that can inspire people today and people can learn a lot of lessons from it. For example, in some fables the greeks teach a lesson about appreciating and cherishing what one has before it is won’t have them and when they are gone you will want to have them back again. Some fables that support this claim is “The Hen and The Golden Eggs”, “Heroes

Aesop was a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece. Through their morals, his fables taught many important lessons that are still used in society today. One such fable was that of “the Hawk, the Kite, and the Pigeons”. One day, a cote of pigeons became frightened after seeing a kite flying nearby. Unable to defend themselves, the pigeons called upon the Hawk to defend them. After the Hawk obliged, he was admitted into the cote. The pigeons discovered that in one day, the Hawk slaughtered

However, De La Fontaine quickly offers a contrast to this youthful display of life when he writes “‘But now revenge is mine [the wolf] – and revenge is sweet’ / Whereupon he dragged the lamb deep / Into the forest and had his meal” (259). This depiction of death being