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The Hare was soon far out of sight, and to make the Tortoise feel very deeply how ridiculous it was for him to try a race with a Hare, he lay down beside the course to take a nap until the Tortoise should catch up. The Tortoise meanwhile kept going slowly but steadily, and, after a time, passed the place where the Hare was sleeping.
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Hare and the Tortoise’ is one of Aesop’s best-known fables. The meaning or ‘moral’ of the fable is worth analysing more closely, however, and the story has attracted a number of competing – indeed, actively conflicting – interpretations.
|. Greece. The Tortoise and the Hare. The slow and steady tortoise wins a race against the boastful and overconfident hare. Perseverance. Boasting. Humility. Intermediate (B1) Fun. Rhyme. Once upon a time, in a thick forest, there lived a fast hare and a slow tortoise.
“The Hare and the Tortoise” Additional Information. Year Published: 1867. Language: English. Country of Origin: Greece. Source: Aesop (1867) Aesop's Fables. Readability: Flesch–Kincaid Level: 3.2. Word Count: 168. Genre: Fable. Keywords: traditional stories. Cite This. Share |. Downloads. Audio. Passage PDF. Student Activity 1.
After many years, Tortoise began to wish he had gone to that wedding. When he saw how gaily the birds flew about and how the Hare and the Chipmunk and all the other animals ran nimbly by, always eager to see everything there was to be seen, the Tortoise felt very sad and discontented. He wanted to see the world too, and there he was with a ...
The Tortoise and The Hare. There once was a speedy hare who bragged about how fast he could run. Tired of hearing him boast, Slow and Steady, the tortoise, challenged him to a race. All the animals in the forest gathered to watch. Hare ran down the road for a while and then paused to rest.
Meanwhile the tortoise plodded on and the hare, oversleeping herself, arrived at the goal, only to see that the tortoise had got in before her. There are several possible morals for this fable: Consistency, even slow consistency, beats inconsistency every time. Slow but sure wins the race.
