Concept in Definition ABC

The term Parable has two widely extended uses.

On the one hand and at the request of the Literature, parable refers to the literary form that consists of a figurative story, of which and by analogy or likeness a teaching related to a topic that is not explicit, that is, it is an invented event from which a teaching will be drawn moral.

The parable has had a didactic purpose since time immemorial and proof of this is that through this literary type, Jesus offered the different teachings to his faithful followers, in the Christian gospels we can find a large number of parables in which different issues are taught through situations analog.

Its main characteristics include the following: it evokes a environment, describes an action and its results, involves a character who faces a Moral dilemma and then suffer the consequences of that choice, it is written in prose and belongs to the gender epic, uses a huge amount of metaphors, moralizing or didactic character, simulates reality and speaks of everyday events, narrates a simple action,

singular and consistent, without circumstances that lead to distraction.

And the other of the popular uses that the word parable presents is that which is given at the request of the math and that refers that the parabola is a conic section caused by cutting a right cone with a plane parallel to the directrix, in other words, it is a curve symmetrical with respect to an axis, which has a single focus and which will then result from cutting a right circular cone along a plane parallel to one of its generatrices.

Themes in Parable