Friday, October 5, 2018

Short note on fable and parable

A fable is a short story that illustrates a moral lesson in which animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature are used as characters.
A parable is a succinct short story with a universal truth in which human characters are mainly featured.
A parable is like a metaphor where characters face a moral dilemma.
In Plato’s republic, parable like the ‘Parable of the Cave’ was famous, in which one’s understanding of truth is persecuted as a story about being deceived by shadows on the wall of a cave teach an abstract argument.

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