ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The story related by Phaedrus has a frog motivated by envy of the ox, illustrating the moral that ‘the needy man, while affecting to imitate the powerful, comes to ruin’. It is to this that Martial alludes in a short epigram (X. 79) about two citizens trying to outdo each other by building in the suburbs.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Frog and the Ox appears among Aesop’s Fables. The story concerns a frog that tries to inflate itself to the size of an ox, but bursts in the attempt. In some Classical sources the fable concludes with the moral: ‘Not all creatures can become as great as they think. ‘ There are various versions of the story.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Mouse soon had enough of it and wanted to return to shore; but the treacherous Frog had other plans. He pulled the Mouse down under the water and drowned him.

Detailed explanation-4: -Animal Fables. They are the most common, where relationships are established between animals, humans, gods but really the protagonists are the animals. Human fables. Fables of the plant kingdom. Mythological. Inert things. Agonal. Etiological.