Aesop’s fables

 The fox and the crow is one of the Aesop’s famous fables. In this fable, a fox cunningly cheated a crow for a piece of cheese. What do we learn from this story? Fables often teach moral values either in an implicit or explicit manner. There are many moral values we can learn from this story  beside ‘not to trust flatterers’ such as ‘do not cheat others’, not safe to take another agent’s words and actions at face value, without trying to understand the agent’s underlying goals and intentions or ‘think wisely about possible consequences before do something’. There are many Malaysian fables which are similar to this story such as The Adventures of Mouse Deer, Sang Kancil and The Crocodile, The Vengeful Fox Bitter Lesson and The Crow and The Vain Pigeon.

 

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