Apologue

An apologist is a narrative whose purpose is to instruct about some ethical or moral principle or behavior, usually located at the end or beginning of it and called a moral.

Unlike the fable, which can be written in verse or prose, the apologue only appears in prose, and is usually not carried out by animals but by people. Of the allegory, in that neither can it be carried out by abstract ideas in human or humanoid form. Nor can it be considered similar to the parable or symbolic story, since some types of parable, such as the Kafkaesque parable, may not have any purpose of moral instruction in themselves, but reveal the desperate situation of man in reality. It is actually a subgenre of the didactic genre.

For a long time there has been the confusion of pointing out that an apologist and a fable are the same, because both literary forms have similarities that unite them; however, each one has characteristic features that distinguish them.

Main features

• The apologist is usually written on prose.
• It is explanatory, so it has an extension of half to large.
• His characters are people.
• Its content is moralizing or didactic.
• Plasma facts that look like real life.
• His stories are credible.
• It has ingeniousness and imaginative strength.
• It is concerned about inner perfection, the search for ideals, transcendent reflection, sacrifice and self-denial for great causes, as well as the emphasis on high principles.