The Man and the Lion

The Man and the Lion is a short fable story by Aesop. It revolves around a man and a lion who argue over who is the superior among all the animals. They come across first a statue depicting a man overpowering a lion and then a rug showing a lion overcoming a man. This illustrates the subjectivity of perspective, teaching readers that the story's interpretation often depends on who is telling it.

• Children

								
A Lion and a Man chanced to travel in company through the forest.
They soon began to quarrel, for each of them boasted that he and
his kind were far superior to the other both in strength and
mind.

Now they reached a clearing in the forest and there stood a
statue. It was a representation of Heracles in the act of tearing
the jaws of the Nemean Lion.

"See," said the man, "that's how strong we are! The King of
Beasts is like wax in our hands!"

"Ho!" laughed the Lion, "a Man made that statue. It would have
been quite a different scene had a Lion made it!"

It all depends on the point of view, and who tells the story.
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