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The Wolf And The Lamb - Summary and Analysis | Aesop Fables

Summary

This is the story of a poor young lamb who happened to come across a wolf. 

The wolf is trying to give a reason why he should eat the lamb and thus accuses it of eating in his pasture and drinking his water.

The young innocent lamb explains to the wolf that none of his accusations is true. The wolf then eats the poor lamb without second thoughts saying “Well! I won’t remain supperless, even though you refute every one of my imputations.”

The fable



Analysis

The moral lesson of this fable is that “The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.”

In fact the wolf meant to eat the lamb all along, but was trying to justify the act to his victim.

The fable comments on the behavior of cruel people and people with no morals who find pretexts to justify their atrociousness to themselves and/or to the world. This is often seen in people who know that what they intend to do is wrong, to begin with. But this is of no consequence to them and they have no pricking of their conscience, no hesitations to go forward with their actions even when they don’t have the agreement of their victims or the public. This is something often seen. That such people  try to elicit their victims’ “blessings” or that of the society. And no matter what, they will try to have the last word and the upper hand, as the wolf does when he is saying that he won’t remain supperless. The wolf is excusing himself to his eyes and to that of the world by actually saying that “I will kill you because I want to eat”. He’s not saying that he is hungry, he’s not saying that he is sorry, he only says that he’s not prepared to remain supperless.

Notice on this fable how the victim is pictured by a lamb, expressing innocence and purity.


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