[20 POINTS] What are common themes of “The Fisherman and His Wife” and “The Horse and the Loaded Donkey”
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The common theme of "The Fisherman and his wife" and "The horse and the loaded donkey" is to not be greedy and selfish and be happy if you get rewarded in any way for a good deed.
In the story of he horse and the loaded donkey the donkey had to bear all the burden and when he asked for the horse's help the horse refused due to which the donkey died so now the whole burden was on the horse which tells us that you get nothing from being selfish.
On the other hand in the fisherman and his wife he catches a prince fish and hes answers their wishes but the fisherman's wife is not satisfied with anything that the prince fish grants and in the end they end up with nothing which proves that being selfish and greedy brings about only disaster.
The main theme of the story ‘The Fisherman and His Wife’ is that people must not be greedy and should happy of what they have.
Otherwise, everything can be lost due to their excessive greed.
On the other hand in the story ‘The Horse and the Loaded Donkey’ we can see that pride and selfishness can bring distress at the end.
So the common theme of these stories is that greed, selfishness, pride are the negative traits of a person and one must not possess any of these traits to live happily.