A fable is a short story intended to teach a moral lesson. Fables typically use

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A fable is a short story intended to teach a moral lesson. Fables typically use animals and forces of nature as characters. Choose one of La Fontaine's fables from the document posted in Week 6 folder or choose another fable from the website below, and explain how one can relate the fable and its moral to life in 17th Century France? Consider how the king and the nobles lived at court as well as the rest of society Also consider the religious tension and intolerance that lead to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. These fables are still read and discussed in French schools. Are these fables relevant to us in 21st Century America? Explain http://www la -fontaine-ch thierry.net/sevnanimalsheron htm

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If we take the case of the lifestyle and the living standards at the time of 17th centuary and the present time then we can find that there are a lot of differences in between these two ear of the time periods. the morality and the moral values are full of ethics based culture and tradition which maintain and regulate the standard of the religion of the people at that time. in 17th centuary, the people were so tradition that they maintain the ethics and hence believed to be live with peace and brotherhood. they follow as well as obeywd their king who ruled over them and form the kingdom. as the same is happen with the fable stories in which they taught to be morally and ethically valuable to the situations and keep the life peaceful and enjoyable. fable help them to the analyse that what the importance these moral ad the ethical values have in their tradition and society. they feel and take it as if they did not have the morality amongs them then they would not survive in their society any more.

As money and the luxary of the life made the life and the mind of the people to a higher level of self justice and self supreme to the other. these make the same with the nobles and the king. as the people of that time were so simple that they placed the king in the place of lord or almighty and the king used to take the benefits of these. these nobles people and the king have the abundant money but they dont have the moral values and the ethics. this made them thought to be powerful and they used to command the rules over the others. these way the nobles and king have a very strong image of rule over others in the society.

These made the simple people other than king and nobles to feel like downwards in the society. they think that they are not powerful and they have no right to put their opnion in the society. only the noble people and the king have the authorty to rule and power to put their opinion in the form of order and command. they took it as they are the followers and just have to follow whatever the king and the nobles do.this make the conflicts and the contradicted to the revocations of the religious tension and the intolerance in 1685.

Yes these fables are stiil read and discuss in the school of french and it is relevant to the America. it is because either other nation or the same nation the values of the moral and ethics is same and have the same importance to the society of any religion globally. this should not to be applied only in the french or america rather it is valid for the all nations. moral values and ethics make us the good human being and by the viture of the good human we can form a nation with the full of ethics and moral values with the power of justice for the right opinion. this will lead to the more developement with sustain of the traditions.

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