The Fox and the Grapes
File:Le renard et les raisins 1900.jpg
An illustration of the fable
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
- Chauveau - Fables de La Fontaine - 03-11.png
The illustration of the fable by François Chauveau in the first volume of La Fontaine's fables, 1668
- La Fontaine Louvre.jpg
Pierre Julien's sculpture of La Fontaine with attendant fox
- Fox and grapes jugiez.jpg
A wooden panel from an 18th-century chest of drawers
References
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