چکیده:
Aesop is a fabulist whose name is intertwined with moral animal tales and who is known as the father of the fable in the West. Although precise information about his life is not available, the tales remaining from him are still of interest to everyone. Often, 208 didactic tales from Aesop's fables are categorized as fables (= animal allegories) in which each animal represents a type of person. Aesop's fables date back to approximately the 6th century BC. The characters of Aesop's tales consist of animals, plants, humans, and gods. Typically, at the end of most of these tales, in which animals are the main actors, moral lessons are expressed. Some of the themes and content of Saadi's works are seen identically in Aesop's fables or can be matched with his words and phrases. This could be due to 'parallelism' or 'influence and effect.' Since moral virtues and vices are rooted in human nature and are accepted by everyone in almost all cultures and languages, many of the concepts taught in Aesop's fables are also addressed in Saadi's works. The themes of Saadi's works, like Aesop's fables, include moral virtues and vices. In total, among Aesop's tales, 39 tales share similarities with the subject matter of Saadi's poetry and are comparable. The purpose of the present article is to examine and analyze Aesop's tales with similar themes and subject matter in the phrases and poems of Saadi.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Some of the themes and content of Saadi's works are seen exactly in Aesop's fables or are applicable to ∗ Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Payame Noor University, Yazd zabihnia@pnu.
" Since moral virtues and vices are rooted in human nature and are accepted by everyone in almost all cultures and languages, many of the concepts taught in Aesop's fables are also addressed in Saadi's works.
2. Research Background So far, no article has been compiled regarding the content similarity between Aesop's tales and the works of Saadi, but works have been published regarding fables and allegorical stories, which include: "Fable in Persian Literature" by Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh, which was published in 1352 in the journal of Human Sciences Gohar, issues 3 and 4.
Since moral virtues and vices are rooted in human nature, is universally accepted in all cultures and languages; some of the themes and contents of Aesop's didactic and moral teachings are seen exactly in Saadi's works or are applicable to his words and phrases.
Saadi brings forth the same theme: For the benefit of a clement man, He kissed the donkey's back and said "O wise one" (Saadi, 1363: 158) When biting is not possible, use a kiss, For with the powerful, the only remedy is trickery and deceit (Ibid: 260) 4-22- Aesop condemns greed, counting it among moral vices, and believes that "a poor person without desires lives a healthy life, but a wealthy person is unstable in times of tribulation" (Aesop, 1373: 147).
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