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Proverbs in Fables II

Dr. Dipak P. Ganmote

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This article is a continuation of my discussion on Proverbs in Fables published in Language in India www.languageinindia.com Vol. 24:4 April 2024. In this earlier article I chose to present an analysis of proverbs in the select fables of Aesop. The specific steps of analysis started with identifying the proverb stated in the fable and describing the context of the fable in which the proverb is used; hence the contextualization of proverbs is pointed out by commenting on it. The third step commented on the proverbiality of the proverb statements.

Two books were selected for the analysis of the stories of Aesop. The books included similar stories, yet their English translations provided different effects. The books included Three Hundred Aesop’s Fables by Fyler Townsend and Aesop’s Fables from planet ebook.com. The focus was on fables from the volume Aesop’s Fables by Fyler Townsend. The present article presents additional fables from the source Aesop’s Fables from https://www.planetebook.com/. The detailed description of the proverbs in these fables will help moral values. At the same time, students will develop their interest in reading because of the interesting contents of the stories.

Keywords: Aesop, fables, proverbs, moral instruction, characters, students, reading.

This article is a continuation of my discussion on Proverbs in Fables published in Language in India www.languageinindia.com Vol. 24:4 April 2024. The present article presents additional fables from the source Aesop’s Fables from https://www.planetebook.com/. The detailed description of the proverbs in these fables will help the growth of moral values. At the same time, students will develop their interest in reading because of the interesting contents of the stories.

1. “Every tale is not to be believed” (Townsend 126).

The proverb is used at the end of the fable The Thief and The Innkeeper. The fable tells the story of a thief who hired a room in an inn with the motive of stealing something so that he could pay the rent. He waited in vain for some days. One day, he saw the innkeeper dressed in a new coat sitting in front of his door. The thief went and sat near the innkeeper. The thief engaged in conversation with the innkeeper. As the conversation proceeded, the thief yawned and howled like a wolf. The innkeeper asked the thief why he yawned so fearfully. The thief told him that he was unaware of how he became habituated to yawning and howling. He also said that when he yawns for the third time, he turns into a wolf, tears the clothes, and attacks men. In due course, the thief yawned a second time. The innkeeper believed what the thief had told him and started running before the thief’s third yawning. The thief caught hold of the innkeeper’s coat and told him to stop to hold his clothes. At that exact moment, the thief yawned for the third time, and the innkeeper left his coat to the thief. Later, the innkeeper never returned to the inn. Outwardly, the proverb relates to the story of the innkeeper told in the fable, but overall, the fable’s context enables the relation of the proverb to the entire fable. The innkeeper believed the story told by the thief and lost what he had. The proverb suggests not to believe every story. The proverb is made of “every tale”, and “not to be believed”. The thief’s tale was far-fetched, but the innkeeper believed that he should not have done it. Thus, the proverb is related to a part of the fable but contextually applied to the whole fable.

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Dr. Dipak P. Ganmote
M.A., PGDTE, SET, NET, M.Phil., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
SKN, Sinhgad College of Engineering
Pandharpur 413304, Solapur, Maharashtra, India
dganmote09@gmail.com
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