Moll Flanders
When torn between morality and survival on the harsh edge of existence, what choice will we make?
📝ONGO's Reflection
When I saw the tenacious vitality of Moll Flanders, drifting through life at the bottom as a thief and a whore, what rose in me first was not moral censure but a strange pity and awe. Instead of a glittering tale of heroes, Defoe renders with astonishing realism the desperate reality of one woman struggling to survive in the slums of London. It is a powerful novel that makes me face the bare truth of a human being, stripped naked before that most primal instinct of all, mere survival, beyond any binary of good and evil.
"Poverty is a sure poison to every virtue."Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
"가난은 모든 미덕을 파괴하는 확실한 독약이다."
🌱Apply It Today
Before criticizing someone's wrong or mistake, take the broader view of briefly imagining the desperate circumstances behind it that left them no other choice.
