truly I may well call it, saying my prayers, for I was in such a confusion, and had such horror upon my mind, that though I cried and repeated several times the ordinary expression of, Lord Have Mercy upon Me; I never brought myself to any sense of being a miserable sinner...” A religious awakenning happens at the end of the book and Moll Flanders starts a new life just like in Robinson Crusoe. Consequently, in Robinson Crusoe after his time on the island Crusoe’s capacities are augmented by a new ability to ignore his vulgar instincts, and to respond to events as they unfold, rather than forcing himslef into bad situations.Most importantly, from his thoguhtful reflection emerges appreciation for God that provides him with spiritual sustenance through all his days. Crusoe develops a keen ingenuity and, most important, returns to the Protestant religion he had spurned in going to sea.In Moll Flanders , her immoral actions have no real consequences, and the narrative tends to excuse her behavior by referring it to material necessity. The book therefore generates a conflict between an absolute Christian morality on the one hand, and the conditional ethics of measurement and pragmatism that govern the business world, as well as the human struggle for survival, on the other. ...
