The fatalistic outlook is gradually replaced by a sense of brightness and joy, it is the first sign of the changes to come. Also, for the first time, some elements of human psychology can be seen. As the cities grew and more citizens became more educated, new genres appeared the fable and the (fablio) fabliau(x). Fables are short stories with animals for characters and usually a moral at the end. The most famous fable-writer Aesop. Fabliaux a comic, often has excessive sexual and scatological obscenity. Burghers, cuckolding (a cuckold a man who's wife cheated on him).