No, fables are not all about talking animals. Fables are usually to entertain or to teach a lesson. IT depends if the author wants the fable to have talking animals in it, but the actual fable should not really be about talking animals.
they were animals and they could talk.
Animals. The fables were populated by different animals in each tale. He defined the genre.
animals. yes they could talk
Most main characters were animals, and it would make for a pretty boring story if they didn't talk. :)
The characters in Aesop's fables were usually animals or objects that could talk. These characters were often used to convey moral lessons or messages through their actions and interactions in the stories.
The characters in Greek fables, specifically those of Aesop, are animals.
Fables use animals, plants, inanimate objects, and other non-human but anthropomorphized (exhibiting human qualities) characters. This is what differentiates fables from parables that do use human characters.
• Fables teach a lesson that people can relate to, connecting to culture, etc and have been passed down from generation to generation. • Fables may contain animals, plants, etc as the characters, and these characters may be able to speak or have features which no real animal has. • Fables are fiction and also short stories.
This is what FABLES means:a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters; apologue: the fable of the tortoise and the hare; Aesop's fables.
Parables have human characters while fables have animal characters.
Aesop was a Greek storyteller known for writing fables. His fables often featured animals as the main characters, with moral lessons at the end.
A Fable is just another word for 'story'. Usually when we talk about 'Fables' we mean 'a story with some kind of a moral lesson'. Aesop's Fables are typical Fables; and a story such as The Dog and the Bone has an obvious lesson to teach. Quite often Fables will have some element of magic or fantasy; and almost as often a Fable will have animals who can talk and think like humans as main characters. But these things are not necessary. Many fables are fantastical, or have animals as characters; but a fable such as Neruda's Mermaid and the Drunks delivers its moral lesson in an almost realistic narrative. A Fable can be a poem (Dryden and La Fontaine both wrote famous fables which are also poems); but it does not need to be (Aesop's Fables are often found as prose stories; and so are the fables in the Arabian Nights).