Compare the way in which Robert Louis Stevenson and William Golding use fable in "Lord of the flies" and "The House of Eld".

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Compare the way in which Robert Louis Stevenson and William Golding use fable in “Lord of the flies” and “The House of Eld”

A fable is a short story from which a generalised moral can be drawn. A fable usually contains magical features and talking animals. The settings are usually unrealistic and universal and the events are not literally true. Fables have a strong element of folk-tales, such as the repeating pattern of events and the pattern of three.

 Aesop’s fables are well known fables. For example the story of “The hare and the tortoise” for which the moral is “plodding wins the race”. Another is “The fox and the grapes” for which the moral is “It is easy to despise what you cannot get”.

        Writers use this genre to present a message or to get their ideas across. They were probably used to teach children morals and make them easier to understand.

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        “The house of Eld” was published in 1896 after the writers, Robert Louis Stevenson’s death. It was written in Victorian times and after the industrial revolution. It was also written after the shock of Charles Darwin’s theory if evolution. These events both had big influences on his writing it was written to get his message across, which to me is still unclear. But I do think that it may have something to do with changes in a society, much like the changes that occurred because of the industrial revolution and the theory of evolution. The audience for his story was ...

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