Editing Ignacy Krasicki (section)

== Target audience ==
Evidence for this is found in the preface, "[[Fables and Parables|To the Children]],", targeted not to children but to villagers, congregations, and the commonalty. The fables were meant to bring attention to major questions of the day, and to advocate for social reforms.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kapolka|first=Gerard T.|date=1 January 1987|title=Krasicki's Fables|jstor=25778281|journal=The Polish Review|volume=32|issue=3|pages=271–279}}</ref> Although the ''New Fables'', the sequel to the ''Fables and Parables'', were published posthumously in 1803, the better known ''Fables and Parables'' found their audience between 1735 and Krasicki's death in 1801, most of them being published after the [[Partitions of Poland|First Partition of Poland]], of 1772.  The fables usually find their meaning in the final line, through the symbology of the tale rather than through a complex presentation of ideology, thereby readily conveying even to the illiterate the moral and the Enlightenment ideal behind it.