Is female passion dangerous, or is it a form of empowerment?

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English

 

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Pedro B

 

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November 8, 2013

 

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University

 

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Defoe's "Roxana" provides a tale of a woman who has sold her virtue, at first unwillingly for her survival and later for her status and wealth. This is difficult to deal with in light of the copious amounts of didactic conduct literature of the period. As the text suggests "A woman ought rather to die, than to prostitute her Virtue and Honour, let the Temptation be what it will" ...
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As the text suggests "A woman ought rather to die, than to prostitute her Virtue and Honour, let the Temptation be what it will" . The "Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure", or "Fanny Hill" as it is often known, is superficially very similar- a naive young prostitute that rises to respectability. Conversely their characters could not be more different, and the distinctions between them raise important questions of female passion and its consequences...
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