Fables

3 Fables’ comparison

          In most of the Aesop’s Fables, the morals are usually about greediness, hate, bravery, wise, loyalty, and others. The Aesop’s Fables all have a different twist and different situation, but the consequences of these stories are very similar. I think the Aesop’s fables do this because they are using many ways to tell these stories to children for them to behave. They use the same storyline with different characters and different plot to give more examples for children. Aesop’s Fables are anthologies that teach people-usually children- a lesson. They encompass morals, which teach children the consequences after the “bad things” they had done. Of the thousands of fables Aesop wrote, three fables had similar morals and storyline. “The Greedy Fox”, “A greedy woman”, and “The old woman and the physician” are three stories with the same morals. 

           The storyline of these three fables are all the same as their common moral. First, the character got greedy by whatever it wanted, either if it’s food, money, or valuables. At the end, they all got nothing which is their consequences. The stories are just a bit modified compared to other. In “The greedy fox”, the fox tried to squeeze into the hole where the piles of food is in the tree. When he did fit in, he ate up all the food. Since he was to fat from the food he was unable to get out because of his full stomach. In the “A Greedy Woman”, the woman wanted her hen to lay two eggs a day, so she fed the hen twice the amount of food. As a result, the hen got over weighted and was unable to lay any eggs. Lastly, in the “The old woman and the physician”, the old woman was blind. She asks a doctor to heal her blindness, and in return, she promised that when she is healed, she would pay him money. In the old woman’s house, there were many valuables. Every time the physician went there, he would help the old woman, and later would steal some of the valuables away. By the time she was healed, the house was empty. The physician claimed for his payment but the old woman refused, so he sued the old woman. When the judge asks the old woman why she refused to pay the physician, she simply replied, “This man declares that I am healed, but I must still have eye problems. Before I lost my sight I saw my house and everything is in it; but now, even though the physician says I am cured, I cannot see a single thing in my house.” With this, the physician ended up with no payment.

          In conclusion, the Aesop’s Fables are collected by many anonymous people and may have come from the same source. The three stories I had chosen, “The greedy fox”, “A greedy woman”, and “The old woman and the physician” have very close similarities, and may have once been from the same source. This might happen because the stories might have been spread among travelers who heard the story. They want to collect more stories and have more examples. If children see different examples of being greedy, they would also see the different examples of the consequences of being greedy.