Answer:
The Viper and farmer are contrasted by their characteristics in the following way:
The viper is evil and abusive, while the farmer is benevolent and innocent.
Explanation:
The story of the farmer and the Viper is a greek classic story o Aesop's Fables. In this story, the Viper is freezing to death on a road. Then the farmer watches her and decides to help her. So, when the viper kills him she takes advantage of him after saving her life. She arguments that she gifted him the lesson to not trust in the weak. This is abusive behavior that persons without ethics and moral values would perform. So it is characterized as a criminal, bad, and abusive individual. While the farmer is characterized as benevolent and innocent for believing a viper was not going to kill him after saving her.
