Abstract
Since time immemorial, animals have always played an important role in storytelling. However, it must be stressed that all of the animals staged in this kind of oral literature rub shoulders with human beings, speak and act like them: the storyteller attributes to them all the characters that are specific to man such as speech, work, marriage, and other things like crying, being ironic, torturing, loving and hating. Like the fables, the tale assigns animals to human traits modelled on the particular psychology of each animal species. If the storyteller tends to substitute and transform animals into human beings, it is to convey and transcend human characters: which are models of expression, symbols and emblems. Behind each animal, there are hidden attributes characteristic of human beings.
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Ouachene, Nadia
(2020)
"The animal, fascinating figure of the tale: what symbolic for which culture?,"
Faits de Langue et Société (FLS): Vol. 6:
Iss.
1, Article 6.
Available at:
https://scholarhub.univh2c.ma/fls/vol6/iss1/6