WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -A fable is a short story that illustrates a moral lesson. The plot of a fable includes a simple conflict and a resolution, followed by a maxim. Fables feature anthropomorphized animals and natural elements as main characters.

Detailed explanation-2: -A fable is a story that features animals, plants or forces of nature which are anthropomorphised (given human qualities). A fable always ends with a ‘moral’. This is the lesson that is intended to be learnt through reading the story.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -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."