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I enjoyed reading "Aesop, Aristotle, and  Animals: The role of fables in Human life" by Edward Clayton.  At first I didn't understand the reading, so I read it more than once and it started making sence. There's a comparison between animals and human. The first example about the wolf and lamb has a meaning of power. The wolf is a bestial animals and compared to a lamb it's no where as powerful.  The lamb is like the slaves, women, and the poor. However the wolf are like men. The wolf knows it powerful so it can abuse its power. The fables have a reference to animals. They make them come to life and have a voice. This was done to make it easier for people to read these fables. All these fables have a deeper meaning and it shouldn't be taking for face value. The in the fable "The Fox and the Mask" I really didn't understand the meaning behind it. However I think it might be referring to the fox and him hiding something. Also he found the beautiful mask but no brain. So I think it might be like beauty and brains. There's people who have beauty but no brains at all.