The Sheep In Wolf's Clothing Analysis
The fable “The Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing” by James Thurber is about two sheep dressed up like wolves to spy out Wolfland and publish a story.
The sheep are the journalists and are depicted as avaricious and curious because they only want success with their report. As a result they only report what they saw in the short time they spied out the wolves and don’t look deeper. They are egoistic too because they don’t care about the sheep who’ll read the incomplete information. The other sheep are presented a bit dumb due to the fact that they believe everything the other two say and don’t question the correctness.
On the other side the wolves have human characteristics too. They dance, drink and are happy at the beginning. In the end they are bad …show more content…
It’s typical that they act like human beings. The wolves and the sheep represent human types and behavior, for example the sheep show avarice. Additionally there is an ironic moral at the end: “Don’t get it right, just get it written.” The fable deals with journalism, thus it illustrates a general truth.
The title already shows that the fable is about sheep dressed up like wolves to spy them out. It can also mean that in the end the two sheep were the ones who killed the other sheep because they provoked the situation by giving them wrong information. It’s like a metaphor because the sheep were like the wolves and killed the others too.
The moral at the end is meant ironically. For the story itself it means that the sheep don’t care if they report the truth to the other sheep, they just write what they have seen and know through their insufficient research. The other sheep shouldn’t believe everything they read.
In real life it says that you should look at the background and don’t only tell what you see first. You can tell people a lot whether if it’s right or wrong, they often don’t realize that. Also don’t believe everything you read but question the source and the
The sheep are the journalists and are depicted as avaricious and curious because they only want success with their report. As a result they only report what they saw in the short time they spied out the wolves and don’t look deeper. They are egoistic too because they don’t care about the sheep who’ll read the incomplete information. The other sheep are presented a bit dumb due to the fact that they believe everything the other two say and don’t question the correctness.
On the other side the wolves have human characteristics too. They dance, drink and are happy at the beginning. In the end they are bad …show more content…
It’s typical that they act like human beings. The wolves and the sheep represent human types and behavior, for example the sheep show avarice. Additionally there is an ironic moral at the end: “Don’t get it right, just get it written.” The fable deals with journalism, thus it illustrates a general truth.
The title already shows that the fable is about sheep dressed up like wolves to spy them out. It can also mean that in the end the two sheep were the ones who killed the other sheep because they provoked the situation by giving them wrong information. It’s like a metaphor because the sheep were like the wolves and killed the others too.
The moral at the end is meant ironically. For the story itself it means that the sheep don’t care if they report the truth to the other sheep, they just write what they have seen and know through their insufficient research. The other sheep shouldn’t believe everything they read.
In real life it says that you should look at the background and don’t only tell what you see first. You can tell people a lot whether if it’s right or wrong, they often don’t realize that. Also don’t believe everything you read but question the source and the