Reading Notes: Week 2 Myth-Folklore Anthology

Reading Notes on The Lion in Love

(African Lion From Wikipedia Commons)

When I was reading all the stories this week, this one really stuck out to me even though it was so short.

Plot: A lion falls in love with a girl and wants to marry her. Her parents ask the lion to get rid of his teeth and claws so as not to injure her. The lion does but then when he goes back to ask her parents for her hand in marriage they laugh at him. They were only going to marry their daughter to him because they feared the king of the Beasts.
Type of Story: This story was one of Aesop's fables and its central message was that "Love can tame the wildest" But I also feel like there were some underlying themes about forcing someone to love you.
Characters: Only the Lion and her Parents
Ideas: Even though this story was so short it really stuck out because of the surprising conclusion to the story. I think I could definitely take this idea and make it into a longer full-length story with the same general message or maybe focusing on the forcing of a marriage because of a power imbalance (a human girl and a lion are physically unevenly matched)

Bibliography: Joseph Jacobs from The Fables of Aesop Specifically The Lion in Love

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