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Joseph Andrews is a novel written in the middle eighteenth century by Henry Fielding. In this novel, Fielding talks of human nature and of the need for control of sexuality. He does not just come right out and say it, but instead expresses his concern through e ....

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.... I defend myself?" The second example of the sexual advances and the lack of control of their barbaric nature, was made by a man who had promised to take Fanny to London, but instead had ideas of his own. If it wasn't for Abraham Adams, Fanny might have been raped by the man who was accompanying her to London. The next show of a sexual advance on Fanny was made by a Squire that they had encountered after leaving Mr. Wilson's house. Since the Squire's dogs had attacked Adams, he defended himself by hitting them with his cane. When the Squire arrived, and saw the bruises on his dogs, he would have probably had Joseph and Adams indicted had he not ....