The joy, desire, and excitement that stories arouse in people everywhere have driven men to use the tale to express all manner of concepts that may be much less convincing if viewed without narrative appeal.
John Bunyan wrote his allegory The Pilgrim's Progress in 1678.
The frontispiece to the 14th edition (1695) shows the author as-
-sleep. Behind him, his "dream": Christian(the pilgrim)sets out
along the narrow path from the City of Destruction to the Shining Gate.
The frontispiece to the 14th edition (1695) shows the author as-
-sleep. Behind him, his "dream": Christian(the pilgrim)sets out
along the narrow path from the City of Destruction to the Shining Gate.
Some of the most common types of a story used by religious teachers are the parable, a parallel, which means "a placing side by side," The parable generally takes from daily life some event, and uses it to demonstrate the philosophical or moral reality. An example is the Prodigal Son's parable of Christ. Jesus intended the grand festivities that the father had planned in the story to bring back his remorseful son and reflect the grace of Christ to the guilty. We also include parables in the Chinese Taoism faith and in the Koran, the Muslim holy book.
A narrative in the form of an allegory (blog 13) serves much the same function as a parable, but it is more detailed and longer. The Hebrew scriptures often use allegory, as do the Greek and Roman classical literature. One of the most famous examples of allegory in English literature John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (1628-88), in which the character, Christian, represents the spirit, and his painful voyage the transit of the spirit from this life into the next.The risks and fun places of rest in which Christian encounters on the way are divine temptations and consolations.
As in poetry, the use of allegory by the prose storyteller is linked to symbolism (blog 8). An example of this can be found in The Court, written by the Austrian author Franz Kafka (1883-1924) in 1925. Any writers regard trial hearings as a sign of bureaucratic red tape.
The fable is a brief story aimed at teaching a lesson in behavior or morals or making some comments about it. It is usually meant to teach some lessons in worldly wisdom down to earth and is, in tone, generally rather ironic.
The characters are mostly creatures who behave like human beings and sound like people. The most popular teller of such fables was possibly Aesop, a sixth-century B.c. Greek. The folly of submitting to flattery is a common feature in Aesop's fables, as in the tale of the fox who convinced the crow that she should sing like a lark. When the foolish crow opened their beak to sing, they dropped the piece of cheese they had held and the fox stole it.
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One of the most important means of keeping our minds on social problems is often stories-short or long-term. This was achieved by the American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-96) with his novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. This did more than arouse indignation for the wrongs perpetrated in the American southern states against Black slaves; this helped to establish the national atmosphere that ultimately leads to the Civil War.
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illustration by Marc Chagall for Gogol's Dead Souls, a protest against 19th-century Russian serfdom. |
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| A poster advertising a traveling stage adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe's pre-civil War novel about slavery. It called American attention to abuses; after the wae, it was intentionally popular as a novel and melodrama. |
However, one of the key subjects of storytelling has also been entertainment. Tales clearly told to offer ample pleasure in every language. Some of the oldest examples of these tales are the Decameron, a series of realistic, humorous stories written by the Italian Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-75) when European prose literature was otherwise dominated by moralizing novels.
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| George Orwell's political satire Animal Farm. Eric Fraser's drawing shows the pig Napolean inciting farmyard to revolt. |
The growing generation has written its series of stories for both entertaining people and enhancing their comprehension and knowledge. The present state of affairs is no different. Nonetheless, enjoying the story for the sake of the story is something that does not change, which is the fundamental requirement of a tale while the author may prefer something else.
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| A scene from the 1940 film version of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939). It portrayed the sufferings of depression-era farmers who fled drought-ridden Oklahoma " dust bowl " in search of work. |
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