One of the most famous fabulists is Aesop and Krylov. These great people can find a work called the fable "The Wolf and the Lamb." The plot of both things is similar, but there are differences. First, you can consider the creation of the ancient Greek fabulist. Unlike the work of the Russian poet, Aesop’s fable is written in the form of prose. There are other distinguishing features.
The Wolf and the Lamb fable written by Aesop
The plot begins with the wolf seeing a lamb. He carelessly drank from the river. The wolf wanted to come up with an excuse to help him eat the lamb. The predator went upstream. He said that the lamb stirred up the water, and he cannot drink it. He began to make poor excuses, because he stood below the stream and barely touched the water with his lips, so he could not do it. Then the wolf came up with a new charge. According to him, the lamb scolded his father with bad words last year. He rejected this accusation, explaining that he was not even born then, so he could not scold anyone. Then the predator dropped the mask of a fighter for justice. Anyway, he was going to eat his prey, even though he deftly excuses himself.
As Aesop’s fable “The Wolf and the Lamb” shows, the villain will still do a bad thing if he plans, despite honest excuses. Now you can consider how another fabulist writes on this subject several centuries later.
Ivan Krylov writes about the same case
The fable "The Wolf and the Lamb" was written by Ivan Andreevich in poetic form. The lamb came to get drunk at the stream. He was noticed by a hungry wolf. He did not immediately eat the prey, but decided to act in an almost legal way, acting as the prosecutor. At first the predator said that the lamb was stirring up water. He is very culturally justified. After all, he drinks in a low place of a stream, therefore he cannot do this. The wolf then thought up that the kid rude to him the summer before last. The lamb said that he was not born yet. The toothy did not give up and blamed the baby for the fact that, then, it was his brother who contradicted him. So waged a verbal confrontation wolf and lamb. The fable ends with the predator realizing the failure of his excuses for an unseemly act, admitting that he simply wants to eat. The fate of the spoils was decided.
Comparison of two works
The fable “The Wolf and the Lamb” by Krylov is very similar in plot to the Aesopian one of the same name. It differs in that it is written in poems, at its beginning there is a conclusion. He says that the weak of the strong is always to blame. There is plenty of evidence in history. Aesop's work also leads to this conclusion.