The Fox and the Grapes
The Fox and the Grapes is a fable by Aesop.[1] It is about a fox who sees some grapes hanging high on a vine. He tries to reach the grapes, but he can't. Since he can't get them, he tells himself that the grapes are probably sour anyway.
This fable shows the idea of cognitive dissonance. The English expression "sour grapes" comes from this fable.
The Fox And The Grapes Media
The illustration of the fable by François Chauveau in the first volume of La Fontaine's fables, 1668
Pierre Julien's sculpture of La Fontaine with attendant fox
A wooden panel from an 18th-century chest of drawers
References
- ↑ Godwin, William (1824). Fables ancient and modern, adapted for the use of children by Edward Baldwin.