This fable follows its form perfectly, it places it in time and scene, tells who the protagonist and antagonist are, and then gets right down to what happens between them. However, this particular fable bothered me from a young age, because I could not accept the moral explained to me, nor could I puzzle out a fitting moral for it on my own. So eventually I dropped the matter thinking I would understand when I got older. I still didn't understand when I got older, so I found myself on this train of thought again.
I think this fable focuses both on the mysterious nature of the world and how man interacts with it, and on the double nature of man who is constantly inventing hybrids because he himself would like to be half animal and half something else. While most Fables involve animals, this fable includes a mythical creature that is half human and half animal. Brigit Pegeen Kelly and Matthea Harvey are contemporary poets, who deal with duality in poems involving hybrid creatures.
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