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tale and is
To the extent that a tale is twice told, its final author must be suspect, although plagiarism in an oral tradition is less a misdemeanor than the standard modus dicendi.
But only in one of its aspects is Great Expectations a tale of violence, revenge, and retribution.
Whether or not Plato's tale of the lost continent of Atlantis is true, skeptics concede that the myth may have some foundation in a great tsunami of ancient times.
Rare, indeed, is the Harlem citizen, from the most circumspect church member to the most shiftless adolescent, who does not have a long tale to tell of police incompetence, injustice, or brutality.
This is the tale of one John Enright, an American who has accidentally killed a man in the prize ring and is now trying to forget about it in a quiet place where he may become a quiet man.
So Enright's courting of the mettlesome Ellen is impeded considerably, thereby providing the tale which is told.
As with most mythology, there is a tale which offers an alternative version of these events: in Argonautica ( iv. 760 ) Zeus ' sister and wife Hera alludes to Thetis ' chaste resistance to the advances of Zeus, that Thetis was so loyal to Hera's marriage bond that she coolly rejected him.
The tale of Cassius Dio is also somewhat different.
The tale is treated with scepticism by Walter Goffart, who observes that it conflicts with the Origo Gentis Langobardorum, where she was captured only after the death of her father.
Critias mentions an allegedly historical tale that would make the perfect example, and follows by describing Atlantis as is recorded in the Critias.
The tall tale is a fundamental element of American folk literature.
A tall tale is a story with unbelievable elements, related as if it were true and factual.
The line between myth and tall tale is distinguished primarily by age ; many myths exaggerate the exploits of their heroes, but in tall tales the exaggeration looms large, to the extent of becoming the whole of the story.
Armida is a tale of love and duty in conflict and is saturated in magic.
Highlights of the strip's final decades include " Boomchik " ( 1961 ), in which America's international prestige is saved by Mammy Yokum, " Daisy Mae Steps Out " ( 1966 ), a female-empowering tale of Daisy's brazenly audacious “ homewrecker gland ," " The Lips of Marcia Perkins " ( 1967 ), a satirical, thinly-veiled commentary on venereal disease and public health warnings, " Ignoble Savages " ( 1968 ), in which the Mob takes over Harvard, and " Corporal Crock " ( 1973 ), in which Bullmoose reveals his reactionary cartoon role model, in a tale of obsession and the fanatical world of comic book collecting.
According to an apocryphal tale from this era, in a televised face-off, either Capp ( on the Dick Cavett Show ) or ( more commonly ) conservative talk show host Joe Pyne ( on his own show ) is supposed to have taunted iconoclastic musician Frank Zappa about his long hair, asking Zappa if he thought he was a girl.
The tale is also related by Stephanus of Byzantium, and Eustathius.
Swedish folklorist Carl Wilhelm Von Sydow argued against both Scandinavian translation and source material due to his theory that Beowulf is fundamentally Christian and written at a time when any Norse tale would have most likely been pagan in nature.
The 11th century date is due to scholars who argue that, rather than transcription of the tale from the oral tradition by a literate monk, Beowulf reflects an original interpretation of the story by the poet.
In the Poetic Edda the tale of Baldr's death is referred to rather than recounted at length.

tale and moral
The wineskins episode near the end of the interpolated tale " The Curious Impertinent " in chapter 35 of the first part of Don Quixote is a clear reference to Apuleius, and recent scholarship suggests that the moral philosophy and the basic trajectory of Apuleius's novel are fundamental to Cervantes's program.
In June of 2012, Alex Schattner founded a blog featuring “ Modern American Folktales .” With this blog, Mr. Schattner is creating a new anthology of stories that use traditional folk and fairy tale devices to convey moral messages for our time.
The story of Lucretia was a popular moral tale in the later Middle Ages.
It was a fantasy tale, but the moral of the story was that a better life comes from hard work.
Worley discounted concerns that Wright was pursuing his own interests and wrote of it: "' Twelve Years ' is convincingly Northup's tale and no one else's because of its amazing attention to empirical detail and unwillingness to reduce the complexity of Northup's experience to a stark moral allegory.
Whilst greed is a recurring theme in the novel, with many of the episodes stemming from one or more of the characters ' simple desire for food ( be it trolls eating dwarves or dwarves eating Wood-elf fare ) or a desire for beautiful objects, such as gold and jewels, it is only by the Arkenstone's influence upon Thorin that greed, and its attendant vices " coveting " and " malignancy ", come fully to the fore in the story and provide the moral crux of the tale.
While some critics see the gloss as spelling out clearly the moral of the tale, others point to the inaccuracies and illogicalities of the gloss and interpret it as the voice of a dramatized character that only serves to highlight the poem's cruel meaninglessness.
I believe that it is a moral tale.
The moral of the tale, according to Cleese's teacher, was " if you never give up, you can't possibly lose " – a statement that, Cleese reflected, always struck him as being " philosophically unsound ".
His best known work is without doubt the short novel The Black Spider ( Die schwarze Spinne ), a semi-allegorical tale of the plague in form of the titular monster that devastates a Swiss valley community ; first as a result of a pact with the devil born out of need and a second time due to the moral decay that releases the monster from its prison again.
Its beauty however is obscured at the end of the tale with the obligatory moral message for children.
It eschews moral judgment in favor of a hard-boiled tale that flaunts its flowery style as its way of swimming madly along in LA's postwar boom and decadence.
The film received positive reviews, with a 77 % ' fresh ' rating on Rotten Tomatoes ; the consensus states " This fun and moral tale entertains both first-time Sesame Street watchers and seasoned veterans.
The rhetoricians and philosophers were accustomed to give the Fables of Aesop as an exercise to their scholars, not only inviting them to discuss the moral of the tale, but also to practice and to perfect themselves thereby in style and rules of grammar by making new versions of their own.
Charlotte Yonge cleansed questionable passages and the tale took on moral overtones.
The medieval tale of Arthur and his knights is full of Christian themes ; those themes involve the destruction of human plans for virtue by the moral failures of their characters, and the quest for an important Christian relic.
The rosebush, its beauty a striking contrast to all that surrounds it — as later the beautifully embroidered scarlet A will beis held out in part as an invitation to find " some sweet moral blossom " in the ensuing, tragic tale and in part as an image that " the deep heart of nature " ( perhaps God ) may look more kind on the errant Hester and her child than her Puritan neighbors do.
One is his dynamic and inventive version of the Orpheus story and the other, his Testament of Cresseid, is a tale of moral and psychological subtlety in a tragic mode founded upon the literary conceit of " completing " the story-arc for a character in a poem by Chaucer.
" Cooper expresses the view that the absolutes considered in the tale are moral qualities ( patience, fredom or generosity, gentillesse, trouthe ): " Averagus comforts his wife, and then bursts into tears.
Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ) is a moral tale based on the story of Goldsmith's own family.
In this tale of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, MacDonald played a hopeful opera singer opposite Clark Gable as the he-man proprietor of a Barbary Coast gambling joint, and Spencer Tracy as his boyhood priest chum who gives the moral messages.
Similar to Beowulf, Judith conveys a moral tale of heroic triumph over monstrous beings.
She found a story that is “ as moral as the classic fairy taleand that functions as a “ realistic social criticism .” The moral concepts, as described by Ammons, come out as cold and as grim as her Starkfield setting.

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