Domino Quartz's Delightfully Quaint Random Banter Thread #248

[Ionathus]

It's not the intended reading, but Homer kind of has a point.

I had a writing professor in college who loved to do a similar thing with Romeo and Juliet. He’d ask the classroom to state the moral of the story and we’d come up with all sorts of answers: “vengeance isn’t worth it?” “Communication is important?” “…true love??” And he’d shoot each answer down with a little impish grin before ultimately giving us the answer:

The moral of Romeo and Juliet is: “Listen to your parents, or you will die.”