Post #1: Aesop's Fables and Clayton Essay

As I was reading the  Aesop's fables, I noticed how important these kind of fables play in our everyday life. People normally think that fables are meant to be read by children or people of young age, but what they don't realize is that there is no specific age to have fun and learn a life lesson through fables. They teach important life lessons that can be beneficial to both adults and to children in a way that it open the eyes to what is evil and good,and what will be the best decision to make. I believe that if it wasn't because of these kind of literature existed, a lot of children and young adults will make way more mistakes in their life, since they wouldn't have never seen the consequences of decisions certain characters made in the fable stories. It was interesting to see how in "Aesop, Aristotle, Animals: The Role of Fable in Human" he mentions how fables were used in past civilizations as a way to portrayed how society worked according to the social level status you standed on, reflecting that those with more power or money, had more advantages than those that were poor or slaves. The connection they make with humans and animals was really vital to these ancient societies since it gave a more clearer image of who were the "predators" and who were the "preys", resulting in keeping the society as a whole under control. Even though we have some similarities with animals such as eating or sleeping, there is one huge difference between us and them: conscience. While animals acts for survival, we humans have conscience which tell us what is good or evil.