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THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN “ZARBULMASAL “ AND AESOP’S
FABLES
Sayfullayeva Nigora Gofurjon’s daughter
Namangan State University,
Master’s student of English literature,
Email:nigoshaprincess@gmail.com
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13907701
Abstract
This thesis deals with similarities between the fables of two notable
literal features Aesops and Gulkhaniy’s work. In order to explain the reality of
people’s lifestyles, dramas, hope clearly, both utilized proverbs and
characterized animals in place of real people. Although he avoided using exact
names for his characters, readers can easily comprehend that the key points. The
authors were one of whose work affected positevely to the good ubringing of
future generation and profound part of textbooks in many secondary schools.
Besides having individual personality, the characters of their fables interact feel
and express a wide range of emotions like people.In this thesis. I will investigate
the similarities between the Zarbulmasal’s fables and Aesops’s fables and
provide readers with clearly explained descriptions about them.
Key words:
Fable, scenario, motivation, moral, proverb, folk work,
morality.
Introduction
As you probably know, during the v century there were few authors
who could describe about the harsh reality of mediocre people's lives while most
prefered to avoid showcasing of reality. One of those brave writers claiming the
real scenarios of people’s lives was Aesop. Despite putting his life at risk, he
write many propose which have a power to influence on influential people in
many ways. Aesop described how people harshly suffered due to the unfairness.
Aesop was also
rendered as
Æsop
and
estimated to have lived c. 620–564 BCE, and credited with a number
of fables now collectively known as
. Although his life’s existence is
unclear and no writings by him survived, numerous tales credited to him were
collected for the centuries in many languages in a storytelling tradition until
today. Many of the tales bounded with him are characterized
by anthropomorphic animal characters. A wide range of details of his life can be
found in ancient sources, including Aristotle, Herodotus, and Plutarch. An
ancient literary work called The Aesop Romance tells an episodic, probably
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highly fictional version of his life, including the traditional description of him as
a strikingly ugly slave (δοῦλος) who by his cleverness acquires freedom and
becomes an adviser to kings and city-states. Older spellings of his name
included Esop(e) and Isop
e [3]
As for Gulkhaniy, he was one of the notable writers in the reign of Amir
Umarkhan.In his book “Zarbulmasal” he gathered about 400 proverbs and over
15 fables and stories [4]
The semantic structures of the proverbs are clearly identified by uzbek
scholars. However, investigations about similarities of Aesop and Gulkhaniy’s
work can not be found any scientific articles. The resemblance will be clarified
with some examples in this thesis, including some famous fables.
Main Body
At first, readers are supposed to know about what fable is and its
importance in literature and people’s life.Fable story is a story that features
animals, plant or forces of nature which have human qualities.It always end
with moral- lesson that is intended to be learnt through reading the story.As for
Gulkhaniy and Aesop were also notable fable storytellers. A while after, I will
give clarification of their work’s according to similarities between utilized
morals and proverbs. For example, if we take “Yadgor Pustinduz” (Zarbulmasal)
and “Eagle Corvus monedula, shepherd” (Aesop’s fable) both shows the same
meaning by describing different characters with a conclusion “ Maqtanma g’oz
xunaring oz”
if this Uzbek proverb’s English translation is applied it will be
that “
People who live in glass houses should not throw stones"meaning that ones
should not try to show off even if they do not have that ability to do it, that is to
say, people are not supposed to praise themselves but let others do it by
watching over their actions and goodnesses.[3] Even these proverbs can not be
complete equalents, albeit they make sense the same in the context.Whatismore,
there are some other fables that both authors deemed to be essential for the
readers. For instance, we can take goat and shepherd (Zarbulmasal) and liar
camel (Aesop fable). If we take a look at the conclusion of former one shepherd,
breaking the horn of a goat by accident, begged to the goat not to tell the owner
and in the latter one, the camel who lies a lot regrets in the end. The fables teach
readers not to lie and be in the side of truth always because in the end the truth
will win the lie.This moral is a tip of iceberg.There are more than that of which
assist readers to understand the fact that any bad choices lead to worst
outcomes. In the following, the similar fables and their concluded proverbs are
described:
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Liar camel
Goat and Shepherd
‘Honesty is the best
policy’
Yadgor Pustinduz
Eagle
Corvus
monedula, shepherd
People who live in
glass houses should
not throw stones
Donkey without tail
The donkey and the
salt
Stupid effort harms the
back
Conclusion
In conclusion, the essence of Zarbulmasal and fables of Aesops is
inevitable.Although there were not any similarity in terms of personality life or
the time Aesop and Gulkhaniy lived, some obvious resemblance regarding with
the style of using fables and and utilization of folk proverbs is available in both
writers' works.In fact, Aesop and Gulkhaniy’s contributions in the field of
literature is limitless.Both writers helped to improve fable genre.Their fables
give lessons for people of all ages facilitating them to choose a good way or
correct action whenever they find it difficult to make big decisions.That is the
prominent reason why Zarbulmasal and Aesops fables are taught in secondary
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schools.By reading these masterpieces, pupils can select a good life and avoid
negative feelings like anger, jealousy,critismresentment,unfairness and so on.
Unfortunetely, there are no followers of these two features who can write such
kind of unrepeatable fables.
References:
1.
Gulkhaniy. Zarbulmasal ( nashrga tayyorlangan F.Ishaqov).T:1958
2.
O’zME.Birinchi jild.Toshkent -2000
3.
https://n.ziyouz.com/portal-haqida/xarita/hikmatlar/ezop-masallari
4.
https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulxaniy
