Should works of fiction serve a useful vehicles of a sound morality? (Please use Young Goodman Brown as your example.)

In the words of Oscar
Wilde,

"There
is no such thing as a moral, or an immoral book. Books are either well-written, or badly
written."

There is a lot of
logic in the quote. A work of fiction is produced for the sake of producing a work of
art under the field of literature. It is a manifestation of the ideas of the writer at
the time the piece is written, and it should not be meant to give a moral statement. If
that were the case, and this is entirely under a Wildean perspective, then the work of
literature ceases to be artistic and, in turn, becomes a plain didactic
document.

Under a different perspective, one could also
argue that literature could be used as a conduit for the teaching of morality if the
topic is treated as a fable, a parable, or using a completely allegorical scenario, such
as in the case of Young Goodman
Brown.

Other than that, fictional literature
should not be used to change behaviors, but to invite the reader to connect to the
story, and to discover the many dimensions of the self.