For how many years they have been telling the world that it is flattery. A fable about a raven and a fox. (humor, please do not read for nervous people.) Winged expressions from fables

Krylov considered vanity to be one of the main human vices. The fabulist saw this unpleasant quality not only in officials and nobles, but also in many of his fellow writers. Anyone who carefully reads the fable “The Crow and the Fox” by Ivan Andreevich Krylov will be able to find out what the inability to see oneself from the outside leads to.

The fable was created in 1807. A year later it was published in the Dramatic Bulletin magazine. By this time, Krylov, who had returned from the provinces to St. Petersburg, had acquired new literary connections and created several comedies for the stage. The fabulist borrowed the plot from La Fontaine. But this is a completely independent work. Krylov's morality is somewhat different from Lafontaine's moral teaching, and his heroes do not look schematic, but alive, sincere, real. You can try on the image of any of them on yourself. That’s why the text of Krylov’s fable “The Crow and the Fox,” which is taught in a literature lesson in the 5th grade, is so easy to learn.

The fox looks like a real flatterer. In an effort to get what she wants, she does not skimp on praise. Subtly playing on the feelings of the not-so-sweet-sounding bird, the insidious Fox praises her hypothetical singing capabilities. “And, truly, there must be an angelic voice!” - she admires, sneaking a lick at a delicious piece of cheese. The simple-minded Crow, whose breath has been taken away from such sweet speeches, forgets that she was just about to have breakfast. As if having forgotten that she is a Crow, and not a nightingale or a thrush, the victim of the cunning Fox yields to her persistent request and croaks “at the top of her crow’s throat.” Krylov feels sorry for Vorona, and at the same time laughs good-naturedly at her. People like her are most often to blame for their troubles. You can download the fable in its entirety or read it online on our website.

How many times have they told the world,
That flattery is vile and harmful; but everything is not for the future,
And a flatterer will always find a corner in the heart.

Somewhere God sent a piece of cheese to a crow;
Raven perched on the spruce tree,
I was just about ready to have breakfast,
Yes, I became thoughtful, but I held the cheese in my mouth.
To that misfortune, the Fox ran quickly;
Suddenly the cheese spirit stopped the Fox:
The fox sees the cheese, the fox is captivated by the cheese.
The cheat approaches the tree on tiptoe;
He twirls his tail and doesn’t take his eyes off Crow.
And he says so sweetly, barely breathing:
“My dear, how beautiful!
What a neck, what eyes!
Telling fairy tales, really!
What feathers! what a sock!
And, truly, there must be an angelic voice!
Sing, little light, don’t be ashamed! What if, sister,
With such beauty, you are a master at singing, -
After all, you would be our king bird!”
Veshunin's head was spinning with praise,
The breath stole from my throat with joy, -
And Lisitsyn’s friendly words
The crow croaked at the top of its lungs:
The cheese fell out - such was the trick with it.

Dramatization by Olesya Emelyanova

Duration of the performance: 4 minutes; number of actors: from 1 to 3.

Characters:

Crow
Fox
Narrator

On the stage on the left is a spruce, on the right is a bush.

Narrator

How many times have they told the world,
That flattery is vile and harmful; but everything is not for the future,
And a flatterer will always find a corner in the heart.
God once sent a piece of cheese to the crow.

A Crow flies out from behind a bush with a huge piece of cheese in its beak and sits on top of the tree.

Narrator

Raven perched on the spruce tree,
I was just about ready to have breakfast,
Then, unfortunately, the Fox ran nearby.

Narrator

Suddenly the cheese spirit stopped the Fox:

He twirls his tail and doesn’t take his eyes off Crow.
And he speaks so sweetly, barely breathing.

My dear, oh, how beautiful you are!

What feathers! What a sock!
And, truly, there must be an angelic voice!
Sing, little light, don’t be ashamed! What if, sister,
With such beauty, you are a master at singing, -
After all, you would be our king bird!

Narrator

And Lisitsyn’s friendly words

Narrator

The crow is complaining.

Oh, if only I knew
Her cunning, I wouldn’t open my mouth.
Neither false speech nor sweet poison flattery
From now on, nothing will harm me.
I despise them! I know the value of them!
I will certainly distinguish it from the truth!
Oh life! You taught me a lesson.

The crow flies away.

Narrator

But the lesson was of no use to Vorona.
For her temptation, for the edification of others
The Lord sent her a test again -
I gave the cheese twice as much.

The Crow appears with a huge piece of cheese and perches heavily on the spruce.

Narrator

This very hour
The crow ascended to the tree with him
Yes, I became thoughtful, but I held the cheese in my mouth.
Again the Fox ran close by.

A Fox appears from behind a bush and begins to sniff.

Narrator

And again the cheese spirit stopped the Fox:
The fox sees the cheese, the fox is captivated by the cheese.
The cheat approaches the tree on tiptoe;
He twirls his tail and doesn’t take his eyes off Crow.
The crow is waiting.

From fluff to feather,
Darling, you are better than yesterday!
What a neck, what eyes!
Tell it, really, in a fairy tale!
What claws! What a sock!
What a wonder this voice is!
Sing, little light, don’t be ashamed! You won't, sister,
You're angry at me for the past.
Having heard you, the nightingale will be embarrassed.
Sing for me! After all, you are a bird to all birds!

Narrator

Veshunin's head was spinning with praise,
The breath stole from my throat with joy, -
And Lisitsyn’s words are kind
The crow croaked at the top of its lungs.

The cheese falls. The fox grabs him and runs away.

Narrator

The cheese fell out, and there was a trick with it.
History repeated itself verbatim
And morality hasn't changed at all.
I will remind you of it innocently:
Alas, flattery is ineradicable,
As long as crows love to listen to foxes,
And the foxes have crow cheese.

A cunning fox teaches a lesson to a crow, to whom God sent a piece of cheese, but she could not keep it due to her stupidity. Krylov's fable The Crow and the Fox seems to say: trust your eyes, not your ears.

Fable of the Crow and the Fox read

How many times have they told the world,


Somewhere God sent a piece of cheese to a crow;
Raven perched on the spruce tree,
I was just about ready to have breakfast,
Yes, I thought about it, but I held the cheese in my mouth.
To that misfortune, the Fox ran quickly;
Suddenly the cheese spirit stopped the Fox:
The fox sees the cheese -
The fox was captivated by the cheese,
The cheat approaches the tree on tiptoe;
He twirls his tail and doesn’t take his eyes off Crow.
And he says so sweetly, barely breathing:
"My dear, how beautiful!
What a neck, what eyes!
Telling fairy tales, really!
What feathers! what a sock!
And, truly, there must be an angelic voice!
Sing, little light, don’t be ashamed!
What if, sister,
With such beauty, you are a master at singing,
After all, you would be our king bird!”
Veshunin's head was spinning with praise,
The breath stole from my throat with joy, -
And Lisitsyn’s friendly words
The crow croaked at the top of her lungs:
The cheese fell out - such was the trick with it.

Moral of the fable The Crow and the Fox

How many times have they told the world,
That flattery is vile and harmful; but everything is not for the future,
And a flatterer will always find a corner in the heart.

Fable of the Crow and the Fox - analysis

Guys, the fox in the fable is flattering and very cunning, but not bad at all; you can’t call her simple either. She is not lacking in intelligence and resourcefulness. But the crow, on the contrary, was a little stupid that she believed in the fox’s persuasion and croaked at the top of her lungs, because she actually didn’t know how to sing and couldn’t boast of an angelic voice, but how pleasant it was to listen to the fox’s praise. She missed her piece of cheese, and the fox was like that. I wonder which side are you on?

The main contradiction in the fable of the Raven and the Fox lies in the inconsistency between the text and morality. Morality says that flattery is bad, but the fox who behaves exactly like this turns out to be the winner! The text of the fable demonstrates how playfully and witty the fox behaves, but far from condemning its behavior. What's the secret? But in reality there is no secret, it’s just that at every age and position, a person has a different attitude towards flattery and flatterers, sometimes the fox’s behavior will seem ideal to someone, and at other times it will seem like an ugly act. The only thing that remains unchanged is the stupidity of the fooled crow - everything here remains unchanged.

How many times have they told the world,
That flattery is vile and harmful; but everything is not for the future,
And a flatterer will always find a corner in the heart.
Somewhere God sent a piece of cheese to a crow;
Raven perched on the spruce tree,
I was just about ready to have breakfast,
Yes, I thought about it, but I held the cheese in my mouth.
To that misfortune, the Fox ran quickly;
Suddenly the cheese spirit stopped the Fox:
The fox sees the cheese -
The fox was captivated by the cheese,
The cheat approaches the tree on tiptoe;
He twirls his tail and doesn’t take his eyes off Crow.
And he says so sweetly, barely breathing:
"My dear, how beautiful!
What a neck, what eyes!
Telling fairy tales, really!
What feathers! what a sock!
And, truly, there must be an angelic voice!
Sing, little light, don’t be ashamed!
What if, sister,
With such beauty, you are a master at singing,
After all, you would be our king bird!”
Veshunin's head was spinning with praise,
The breath stole from my throat with joy, -
And Lisitsyn’s friendly words
The crow croaked at the top of its lungs:
The cheese fell out - such was the trick with it.

Moral of the fable The Crow and the Fox

Agree that almost all of us want to hear kindness and praise about ourselves. What is dangerous or bad if one person praises or admires another, speaks enthusiastic words to him, extols his virtues - you ask?

And although the old wisdom is the statement that “flattery is harmful,” it is flattering for everyone to hear to themselves that they are “very beautiful,” “the smartest,” “the most talented,” and many other words expressing admiration.

The moral of this fable speaks precisely about the danger and harm of flattering words.

An insightful and wise author, using the simple example of the Fox and the Crow, advises us to be careful if some person is suddenly too kind to us, and says a lot of compliments to us - after all, a person who tells us flattering things may not think so at all and pursue his own goals, distracting our attention.

The moral of the fable tells us to be attentive and critical of ourselves, and always evaluate ourselves critically, not to consider ourselves higher or better than all other people.

Therefore, in order not to lose “cheese”, be careful and take a closer look at the person who praises and flatters you, and really evaluate your own merits.

Fable by Ivan Andreevich Krylov "The Crow and the Fox" was created no later than the end of 1807, and was published for the first time in the Dramatic Bulletin magazine in 1908. The plot of this fable has been known since ancient times and has traveled across countries and centuries to this day. We meet it in Aesop* (Ancient Greece), Phaedrus (Ancient Rome), Lafontaine (France, XVII century), Lessing* (Germany, XVIII century), Russian poets A.P. Sumarokov (XVIII century), V.K. Trediakovsky (XVIII century)

A CROW AND A FOX

How many times have they told the world,
That flattery is vile and harmful; but everything is not for the future,
And a flatterer will always find a corner in the heart.

Somewhere God sent a piece of cheese to a crow;
Raven perched on the spruce tree,
I was just about ready to have breakfast,
Yes, I thought about it, but I held the cheese in my mouth.
To that misfortune, the Fox ran quickly;
Suddenly the cheese spirit stopped the Fox:
The fox sees the cheese, the fox is captivated by the cheese.
The cheat approaches the tree on tiptoe;
He twirls his tail and doesn’t take his eyes off Crow.
And he says so sweetly, barely breathing:
"My dear, how beautiful!
What a neck, what eyes!
Telling fairy tales, really!
What feathers! what a sock!
And, truly, there must be an angelic voice!
Sing, little light, don’t be ashamed! What if, sister,
With such beauty, you are a master at singing, -
After all, you would be our king bird!”
Veshunin's head was spinning with praise,
The breath stole from my throat with joy, -
And Lisitsyn’s friendly words
The crow croaked at the top of its lungs:
The cheese fell out - such was the trick with it.

Our modern Russian language has changed somewhat since the time the fable was written, and we rarely use some words and expressions. To better understand the meaning of some words from the fable, look up their meaning:

"God sent"- this means it came from unknown where.
Perched- having climbed up.
Spirit- here means smell.
Captivated- attracted attention, delighted.
Cheat- a liar.
King Bird- this is the most important, most important bird in the forest, which has beautiful plumage and a wonderful voice, in a word, it surpasses everyone in everything.
Pythoness- this comes from the word “to know”, to know. A soothsayer is a sorceress who knows everything in advance. It is believed that crows can predict fate, which is why in the fable the Crow is called a prophetess.
Goiter- the throat of a bird.

A CROW AND A FOX

Check out the prototypes of Krylov's fable:

Aesop (VI-V centuries BC)
Raven and Fox

The raven took away a piece of meat and sat down on a tree. The fox saw it and wanted to get this meat. She stood in front of the Raven and began to praise him: he was great and handsome, and could become a king over the birds better than others, and he would, of course, if he also had a voice. The Raven wanted to show her that he had a voice; He released the meat and croaked in a loud voice. And the fox ran up, grabbed the meat and said: “Eh, raven, if you also had a mind in your head, you wouldn’t need anything else to reign.”
The fable is appropriate against an unreasonable person.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781)
A Crow and a fox

The crow was carrying in its claws a piece of poisoned meat that an angry gardener had planted for his neighbor's cats.
And as soon as she sat down on an old oak tree to eat her prey, a fox crept up and exclaimed, turning to her:
- Glory to you, O bird of Jupiter!
-Who do you take me for? - asked the crow.
-Who do I take you for? - the fox objected. “Aren’t you that noble eagle that every day descends from the hand of Zeus onto this oak tree and brings me, poor thing, food?” Why are you pretending? Or do I not see in your victorious claws the alms I begged for, which your master still sends me with you?
The crow was surprised and sincerely delighted that it was mistaken for an eagle.
“There is no need to bring the fox out of this delusion,” she thought.
And, filled with stupid generosity, she threw her prey to the fox and proudly flew away.
The fox, laughing, picked up the meat and ate it with gloating. But soon her joy turned into a painful feeling; the poison began to take effect, and she died.
Let you, damned hypocrites, get nothing but poison as a reward for your praises.

Ingredients
marmalade, 150 grams
shelled walnuts, 200 grams
sweet corn sticks, 140 grams
butter, 175 grams
can of boiled condensed milk, 1 cup

Preparation:
Pour the corn sticks into a deep bowl. Add melted butter and boiled condensed milk there.
Mix well, kneading a little and breaking the sticks with your hands.
Cut the marmalade into arbitrary strips or cubes.
Add the marmalade to the bowl with the sticks and stir gently.
Chop the walnuts.
Form an oblong loaf from the resulting mass. Roll it in nut crumbs.
Wrap in cellophane or foil and place in the freezer for half an hour.
Then remove and cut into slices crosswise.

(If there are no nuts, then you can roll the resulting sausage in finely crushed cookies)