ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -fable, narrative form, usually featuring animals that behave and speak as human beings, told in order to highlight human follies and weaknesses. A moral-or lesson for behaviour-is woven into the story and often explicitly formulated at the end.

Detailed explanation-2: -In literature, a fable (pronounced fey-buh l) is a short fictional story that has a moral or teaches a lesson. Fables use humanized animals, objects, or parts of nature as main characters, and are therefore considered to be a sub-genre of fantasy.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Goose With the Golden Eggs A man discovers his goose lays golden eggs. He gets rich selling the golden eggs his goose lays every morning. Soon, he wants all the eggs for himself, killing the goose to get them. The moral is, “Greed often overreaches itself."

Detailed explanation-4: -Both parables and fables are short stories containing moral lessons for the readers but, whereas parables contain human characters only, fables are known to have talking-animals and plant with even super natural forces.