Filme do Dia: Der Traum des Bildhauers (1907), Johann Schwarzer

If every full realized story, however we define that familiar but conceptually elusive entity, is a kind of allegory, points to a moral, or endows events, whether real or imaginary, with a significance that they do not possess as a mere sequence, then it seems possible to conclude that every historical narrative has as its latent or manifest purpose the desire to moralize the events of which it traces.

Hayden White, The Content of the Form, p. 14