There is a huge emphasis on fables because of the way it is written, in verse. Fables include mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects, and nature. Supernatural and unrealistic qualities are given to certain characters. The mythical creatures are given human characteristics, which is the point of a fable. A fable's purpose is to illustrate a lesson or a moral of the story. At the end of each short story, a fable comes about. The lesson Juan Ruiz is trying to teach to men is to not involve themselves in "foolish" love but to embark on a "journey" such as he did to find a "good" love. The fable makes it easier for the author to get right to the point or the moral of the story. The moral of the story is to devote your love to God, and to resist from sexual sin. He says something very powerful about the existance of women, "If when God made man he had intended woman to be a bad thimg, he would never have given her to man as his companio, nor formerd her from him. If she were not made for good, she would not be so noble." He goes on to say that if man were not so fond of woman, love would not hold so many people captive.
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