In this story we have the making of a tragedy, and tragedy is closer to the truth of the gospel
than any morality play.
In other words, much that is said by the so - called «new morality», so much denigrated by traditionalists, is closer to the facts about man in his actual human and cosmic situation
than a morality which is essentially restrictive and negative.
But if we take out the story of Joseph in Potiphar's house we lose something
more than a morality play.
Like «Olive», «The Casual Vacancy» starts off feeling like a character piece more
than a morality tale (and ends up too much like the latter).
It feels like for the majority of this decade Japanese (non-Atlus) developers have been increasingly retreating behind clichés to the extent that the characters are scarcely more
nuanced than morality play archetypes of the middle ages... it's just another way in which their industry has languished.