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Beast Fable
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })If an author wants to make an Allegory about human society, there's no better way than replacing people with an animal stereotype. An entire class of people will be replaced by a type of animal, and different animals will reflect the different social classes of a human society. So, if a writer wants to criticize conformity, she will create a society of anthropomorphic ants like in Antz. Or, perhaps the author wants to criticize society for not working hard enough, like in A Bug's Life, so she adds in locusts that never work and only loot the hard work of others. Aesop himself was famous for these. It is particularly common in children's stories in an attempt to make moralistic messages much more entertaining and understandable for the little tykes. Beast Fables feature a range between Intelligent Wild Animals and Petting Zoo People. These are Older Than Dirt (going back to Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt), which means, in the oldest stories, it's hard to tell if the original teller saw actual animals as equal to people, or saw them as humanoid versions of animals; a character may behave as a human one minute and a talking animal the next. It's been argued that the modern cartoon Funny Animal is an inheritor of this tradition. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Examples |
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In A Bug's Life, the ants represent the oppressed working class and the grasshoppers represent the abusive oppressors. | |
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The graphic novel Maus took place in WWII Poland, with the Germans depicted as cats, the Jews as mice, Poles as pigs, the French as frogs, and American soldiers as dogs. It also played with the trope by showing a half-Jewish, half-German as a mouse with tabby stripes. Also, at one point, Art Spiegelman discusses with his wife whether he should try to symbolize her conversion by making a frog turn into a mouse. When visiting his psychiatrist, he notices he has dogs and wonders whether depicting them will ruin the metaphor. | |
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The underground comic Horndog portrays African-Americans as black cats, and police officers as pigs. | |
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Walter Wangerin's The Book of the Dun Cow and sequel The Book of Sorrows are fascinating beast fables. The animals are used to represent distinct, stylized human roles and personalities. | |
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The classic example is Reynard the Fox, a series of medieval folk stories satirizing the feudal system with Reynard as the hero to the downtrodden peasants. His most favorite antagonist was Isengrim\Ysengrin the wolf who represented the Corrupt Church of the time. Disney was originally going to film the story but it ended up becoming a telling of Robin Hood with Robin as an anthropomorphic fox. Reynard makes a guest appearance in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales in the Nun's Priest's Tale, along with Chanticleer the puffed-up rooster and his more sensible wife, Pertelote. Reynard the fox, Isengrim the wolf, Tybalt the cat, and many other characters from the folktales appear as humanized versions of themselves in David R. Witanowski's Reynard Cycle. Naturally, the characters tend to retain the characteristics of their animal counterparts. |
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Zootopia explores implicit bias by depicting a world in which predators and prey live in relative harmony, but have a historic tension between them. The main characters are a rabbit battling misconceptions about her species (ie a dumb bunny) as she tries to make her way in the police force; and a fox who has embraced the prejudices associated with his species (ie sly fox) as a matter of survival. The story involves a conspiracy that causes predators to revert to a savage state to generate fear in the prey species. | |
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ThunderCats (2011) critiques the racism and classism of the privileged by portraying the Catfolk-populated kingdom of Thundera as practitioners of Animal Jingoism by way of Fantastic Racism, mistreating Dogs and Lizards based around their Cultural Posturing that Cats Are Superior. They pay for their hubris by seeing their kingdom destroyed by their enemies the Lizards. | |
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Watership Down replaced frightened peasants with rabbits. Popularly thought to be a fable about the dangers a democracy faces from appeasement and fascism. The rabbit heroes escape a monarchy, discover a seemingly idyllic warren with a horrific secret coming from placating humans, arrive at their new home and create a democracy that must lock horns with another warren that is a fascist tyranny. | |
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The Book of the Named tackles child abuse and racism, among other things, using prehistoric sentient cats. | |
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Reynard the fox, Isengrim the wolf, Tybalt the cat, and many other characters from the folktales appear as humanized versions of themselves in David R. Witanowski's Reynard Cycle. Naturally, the characters tend to retain the characteristics of their animal counterparts. | |
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The penguins, and emperor penguins in particular, in Happy Feet have been interpreted as both critiques upon religious conformity and, by some, as Christianity by itself, among other things. The director has also talked about the film as an allegorical straight "first contact" story, from the perspective of an undiscovered tribe, and how this relates to the penguins, as one of the layers. Looking at it like this, several astonishing thematic and visual similarities to The Abyss are revealed. | |
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An American Tail uses the metaphor of mice as the oppressed races of the world, and the cats as their oppressors. | |
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Many of Aesop's Fables, of course. | |
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The Nikolajeva book Power, Voice and Subjectivity in Literature for Young Readers analyses this trope, particularly in regard to Into The Wild. | |
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In Antz, the ant society represents a conformist political system where the individual is insignificant; the wasps are the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite; and the flies and other bugs in "Insectopia" are free-willed hippies. | |
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