2. Space:? Fairy tale, the story is complete, the length is long and the plot is magical and tortuous. Such as "The Emperor's New Clothes"; ? Fable, simple in structure, short in length and simple and interesting in plot. For example, "A blessing in disguise is a blessing in disguise."
3. From the perspective of subject matter:? Fairy tales mostly express the fantasy world and are full of fantasy colors, such as The Fisherman's Story. Fables mostly come from real life, and their contents reflect people's views on life, or criticize a social phenomenon, or satirize and exhort some people. ? "encourage seedlings";
4. From the genre characteristics:? Fairy tales are expressed in various forms, including fairy tales in prose, fairy tale poems and pantomime. Rich imagination, fantastic fantasy, lyrical reasoning, entertaining, lively and interesting, readable, such as The Little Match Girl. Fables are manifested in using topics, satirizing the present with the ancient, seeing the big from the small, highlighting irony, paying attention to practicality, paying attention to philosophy and being good at inspiring, such as "Carving a Boat for a Sword".
5. As far as the object of writing is concerned, the object of fairy tales is children, but the object of fables is not limited to children, and many of them are for adults to learn from.
The fables and fairy tales derived from extended materials are both from the people, and they are directly influenced by myths and legends. At the same time, they permeate, draw lessons from and merge with each other in the long-term development and evolution process, so they have many similarities in content and form. Their story is full of fantasy, and artistic techniques such as personification, exaggeration and symbol are widely used.
Some fables and fairy tales are not easy to distinguish from fables, such as Jin Jin's Cat Fishing. Similarly, some fables with long length, complete plot and fuller characters can also be regarded as fairy tales, such as Leonardo da Vinci's Goldfinch.
This makes the two styles overlap to some extent, and sometimes it is difficult to clearly divide them into shortages. However, this connection does not deny the difference between fables and fairy tales. They are mature and independent styles with artistic characteristics.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-fairy tales
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