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morality and religion in Defoes writing

es surpass and drifts her to unbearable results.In the book we can not decide that all these are really her own faults or just the ways that life leads her.Here Defoe blames society again and show us her immorality as a society’s fault.However we still can conclude that she sometimes can be a real immoral woman from some of her sayings, such as: “..But there are temptations which it is not in the power of Human Nature to resist..”and especially she proves once more her weakness while she is together with the man who is loved most by her but did not get married with : “..I must do him the justice to own that the first breach was not on his part.It was one night that we were in bed together warm and merry, and having drank, I think, a little more than usual....I told him that I could find in my heart to discharge him of hid engagement for one night and more.” She gets married many times but never finds happiness because at the time marriage is a business deal and women get marry to make money and fortune that’s why none is successful.That’s one of the evilness of society that leads her to be immoral. When she’s put in a prison upon being arrested for thievery , she begins to think and regrets her faults in the past. “..I neither had the heart to ask God’s mercy, or indeed to think of it, and in this think I have given a brief description of the compleatest misery on earth.” Daniel Defoe repeats himself here and makes his heroine regretted and religious.As the time of death approaches, she begins to think about God and religion deeply.At first she refuses the Priest and thinks that he’s stupid but later on finds him right. “..The preacher left me in the greatest confusion imaginable, and all that night I lay awake; and now I began to say my prayers, which I had scarce done before since my last husband’s death, or from a little while after; and ...

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