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The Man Of Feeling by
Henry Mackenzie was written in the elate eighteenth century (around
1770) while Daniel Defoe's Roxana was written earlier - at approximately
1720. This 5 page paper argues that MacKenzie wished to bring to life
the experiences of Christ, while Defoe was more concerned with making a
political point. The moral theme in both is repentance. No additional
sources are listed.
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The Man Of Feeling by Henry Mackenzie was written in the elate eighteenth century (around 1770) while Defoes Roxana was written earlier - at approximately 1720. Both novels were
set in the late seventeenth century and have, at the core, the moral of repentance. The story line is somewhat similar in that both novels tell the story of
a woman who has become a prostitute. The main character in MacKenzies Man Of Feeling is Harley, a man who is kind and virtuous. He meets and
befriends the prostitute, Emily Atkins. The story is constructed as a parallel to the story of Jesus and Mary Magdalene in the book of Luke. Like Jesus, Harley
accepts the woman for the person she is outside of her profession, ignoring the fact that she is a prostitute in order to find out what she is truly like
as a person. Harley does not treat Emily as a fallen woman, although it is obvious that she is shunned by society in general because of the nature
of her profession. When he finds out that she is hungry, he takes her hand so as to help by providing her with what she needs. The act
of friendship and acceptance brings the woman to the point where she feels remorse and wants to repent. She begins to cry and apologizes to the man for her
lack of worth. He answers, "there is virtue in these tears; let the fruit of them be virtue" (34), calling for her to accept her sins and to repent.
The reader, at this point, begins to understand why Harley has found sympathy for the woman, even though she is a prostitute. It is not her fault, rather,
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