ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -A fable is a fictional story that features animals, legends, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that become anthropomorphized.

Detailed explanation-2: -Fables are short and basic, without too much detail about how the characters/setting look like. Fables have a moral lesson and teach us what we should and should not do. Usually there is a good character who does the right thing and follows the lesson.

Detailed explanation-3: -According to our ancient sources, the fable’s use of animals primarily serves to underscore the fictionality and lightness of the stories. The risibility of the humanized animal allows the fable to make its point without boring or insulting an addressee.

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.