| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 國語文學系 === 95 === The world-famous Aesop’s Fables is the earliest fables in Western literature. Originally fables were ironic tales spread in ancient Greece. Until the third century B.C. they were collected as an anthology. Later that, all the fables circulated among the people were arranged and belonged to Aesop’s Fables that pass current on generations till now.
Aesop presented human’s good and evil through different animal habits and manners. He portrayed human natures actively and vividly with personification writing skill, ingenious metaphor technique and simple resourceful language. People get instruction, inspiration, living experience and life philosophy in every story of Aesop’s Fables which is really a good book worthy of reading. Now all over the world there are numerous translations of Aesop’s Fables which has become well-known literature work.
This research paper includes six chapters as follows:
The first chapter is “Instruction” that explains the study’s motivations and purposes, methods and steps and literature research.
The second chapter discusses the definition and features of fable, the definition, origin and features of animal fable. Compare animal fable with other animal literature.
The third chapter is divided into two parts. One is the docile beast images in Aesop’s Fables. It mainly researches the role images of sheep, donkey, dog, deer and rabbit. And compare the differences of animal images between Chinese and Western cultures. The other is the violet beast images in Aesop’s Fables. To investigate the role images of lion, fox, wolf and snake. And compare the differences of animal images between Chinese and Western cultures.
The fourth chapter is the images of birds in Aesop’s Fables. Analyze docile birds like crow, chicken, swallow, dove, jackdaw and peacock. Investigate violet birds such as eagle and kite.
The fifth chapter is the artistic skill of animal images in Aesop’s Fables that studies the skills Aesop used to model the role images in fables.
The sixth chapter is the conclusion that sums up and put in order the research outcomes of the study.
Aesop’s Fables has influenced European Literature deeply and multiply for two thousand years. It affects the creation of fables directly and opens the new page of fable writing for later generations.
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