Moral

A moral (from Template:Wiki morālis) is a message conveyed or a lesson to be learned from a story or event. The moral may be left to the hearer, reader or viewer to determine for themselves, or may be explicitly encapsulated in a maxim.

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As an example of an explicit maxim, at the end of Aesop's fable of the Template:Wiki and the Hare, in which the plodding and determined Template:Wiki wins a race against the much-faster yet extremely arrogant hare, the stated moral is "slow and steady wins the race". However, other Template:Wiki can often be taken from the story itself; for instance, that "arrogance or overconfidence in one's Template:Wiki may lead to failure or the loss of an event, race, or contest".

The use of stock characters is a means of conveying the moral of the story by eliminating complexity of personality and so spelling out the issues arising in the interplay between the characters, enables the writer to generate a clear message. With more rounded characters, such as those typically found in Shakespeare's plays, the moral may be more nuanced but no less Template:Wiki, and the writer may point it up in other ways (see, for example, the Prologue to Romeo and Juliet).
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Throughout the Template:Wiki of recorded Template:Wiki, the majority of fictional Writing has served not only to entertain but also to instruct, inform or improve their audiences or readership. In classical Template:Wiki, for example, the role of the chorus was to comment on the proceedings and draw out a message for the audience to take away with them; while the novels of Charles Dickens are a vehicle for Template:Wiki regarding the Template:Wiki and economic system of Victorian Template:Wiki.

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Some examples are: "Better to be safe than sorry", "The Evil deserves no aid", "Be friends with whom you don't like", "Don't judge people by the way they look", "Slow and steady wins the race", "Once started down the dark path, forever will it hold your Destiny", and "Your overconfidence is your weakness". Aesop's Fables are the most famous of stories with strong moral conclusions.
Template:Wiki in Moral Tales

Template:Wiki were one of the main purposes of Template:Wiki during 1780-1830, especially in children's Template:Wiki. Part of the reason for this was the writings of Template:Wiki and Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the 18th century, which brought attention to children as an audience for Template:Wiki. Following in their line of Thought, Thomas Day (1748-1789) wrote Sandford and Merton, elevating the outstanding Template:Wiki of one young boy above the rapscallion nature of another. Maria Edgeworth (1776-1849) was another prominent author of moral tales, Writing about how a wise adult can educate a child; one of her more famous stories is “The Purple Jar.” The theme of “a young heroine or hero gaining Wisdom and maturity was taken up by many other writers” during this time (p. 93).