fable
ˈ feɪb(ə)l
- 1.A short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral.
Well the word above literally does not mean a story although technically it is a story involving animals that conveys a story. Story telling by Aesop mastered the art of putting stories in a Fable. The best part of a fable is that it conveys some kind of morals or a life lesson. Well if i have to ask myself out of the very few fables i know which story will fit me is a tough say. I know the tortoise and the hare that leaves the moral slow and steady wins the race. In real life too i have seen such scenarios. I have seen exceptionally talented young men who lost their way because of being the hare and not really taking it to the next level. I dont know what i am. The next story will be the Goose that lays golden eggs which states that being greedy can make you lose everything. The story is true in real life too when it comes to gambling. One should know where to stop. I will with the very few stories i know will take my life in the fable Fox and the grapes. I am the fox who is gifted to come up with a excuse for everything. In this case scenario for me the grapes are sour as i can't climb it.The moral of the story is being lazy and not taking initiative will not take you anywhere. or else It’s easy to despise what you cannot have.
So recently i had the chance to see Red rabbit White rabbit written by Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour. I have seen many plays throughout the course of my existence acted in few but never have seen such a play that is so different in its very basics of a play. This play unlike other play is a surprise play in which the actor has never gone through the script and has to recite the script live and act spontaneously. I out of the lucky few had the chance to see Anurag Kashyap performing/acting live on a script which he never heard of. It is more like Dumb charades in which you act without opening your mouth but this is vice versa. In here the audiences get the chance to perform with a Bollywood star. For me i am a die hard fan of DEV D and to see him on stage was bliss though i could not act along with him. Anyways i have picked up my favorite line from DEV D which i say at times when needed Dilli mein Billi palna nahi Billi khana hain.
It was difficult for me to understand the whole story but it was definitely a fable that sends a moral. I have to see it again to understand it better as i found it difficult to understand. Well this is my version of how it goes based on recollection. The audiences in the theater start taking a roll call. The script has numbers designated in which the audiences of the given number can act along with the actor. Well the story goes like this, a red rabbit wants to make his way to see a circus that is being played in a theater. He has to cover his ears so that he can manage to get a seat. He somehow manages to sneak in. During the play the guard notices him as he left his ears visible to the guard.The scene played in the circus at that time was five cheetahs against the white rabbit and a crow hovering. He somehow manages to make his way in the circus in order to avoid getting caught. 2 cheetahs out of 5 help the red rabbit to act and be a cheetah though he is not one. The red rabbit gets help from the audiences in order to stay in the circus. The audiences are called up in stage and play their designated roles along with the red rabbit. The actor on stage has to choose between poison and salt in order to stay in the play. He has a choice to choose. The actor who performs it i guess is the white rabbit. He then goes into a flashback saying that his uncle had a similar problem and managed to find a solution. His main accusation was of the red rabbit making fun of him. He then devised a plan to get to the red rabbit. He starves 5 white rabbits in a cold container. They are starved but not left to die. They have been told that it is the red rabbit responsible for all folly. He then decides to paint a white rabbit red and see the fury unleash. At the end of the play all those who help the red rabbit from the audiences are tagged as red. The white rabbit then decides to choose between salt and poison and tells that the whole world is seeing what he is going through and no one is doing anything about it. He then decides to choose what needs to be done and the audiences leave.This story definitely had a moral that i did not get in my head. I have to see it again once or twice to get at least some kind of a understanding. When it comes to a fable below lines is what Napoleon Bonaparte had to say that actually ended up as a moral conveyed in a fable“What is history but a fable agreed upon”. Napoleon's tragedy: Man who lives by the sword Dies with the sword.- This makes him one of the very few men who live with their word and die with it.
"Live by the sword, die by the sword" is a proverb in the form of a parallel phrase, which can be traced back to Aeschylus's Agamemnon, line 1558, "By the sword you did your work, and by the sword you die."[1]Agamemnon was part of the Oresteia, trilogy of tragic dramas by the ancient Greek dramatist and was first performed in 458 BCE
Aesop (/ˈiːsɒp/ ee-sop; Ancient Greek: Αἴσωπος, Aisōpos; c. 620 – 564 BCE) was an Ancient Greek fabulist or story tellercredited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables. Although his existence remains uncertain and no writings by him survive, numerous tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day. Many of the tales are characterized by animals and inanimate objects that speak, solve problems, and generally have human characteristics.
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