Fable: Visualizing the Moral Tales of Aesop

VISUALIZING THE MORAL TALES OF AESOP

A COMMUNAL EFFORT OF THE FALL 2016 ILLUSTRATION II CLASS WATKINS COLLEGE OF ART, DESIGN & FILM

ILLUSTRATION BY CAROLINA DE ALBA GARZA

THE WOLF AND THE GOAT

Ahungry Wolf spied a Goat browsing at the top of a steep cliff where he could not possibly get at her.

“That is a very dangerous place for you,” he called out, pretending to be very anxious about the Goat’s safety. “What if you should fall! Please listen to me and come down! Here you can get all you want of the finest, tenderest grass in the country.”

The Goat looked over the edge of the cliff.

“How very, very anxious you are about me,” she said, “and how generous you are with your grass! But I know you! It’s your own appetite you are thinking of, not mine!”

An invitation prompted by selfishness is not to be accepted.

THE ASTRONOMER

An astronomer used to walk out every night to gaze upon the stars. It happened one night that, as he was wandering in the outskirts of the city, with his whole thoughts rapt up in the skies, he fell into a well.

On his hollering and calling out, one who heard his cries ran up to him and, when he had listened to his story, said; “My good man, while you are trying to pry into the mysteries of heaven, you overlook the common objects that are under your feet.”

Take care of the little things and the big things will take care of themselves.