morality

/mə-ˈra-lə-tē/

noun

  1. a moral discourse, statement, or lesson

  2. a literary or other imaginative work teaching a moral lesson

  3. a doctrine or system of moral conduct

ended his lecture with a trite morality

"Aesop's Fables" is famous as a morality.

noun

  1. an allegorical play popular especially in the 15th and 16th centuries in which the characters personify abstract qualities or concepts (such as virtues, vices, or death)

  2. something (such as a court trial) which involves a direct conflict between right and wrong or good and evil and from which a moral lesson may be drawn