Счастливая куртизанка или Роксана

Roxana’s choices seem both defiant and constrained by her society. I wonder if Defoe intended her to be a critique or a product of her time.

Her resilience is admirable, but her manipulations and betrayals made me uneasy. How do readers reconcile liking her while questioning her actions?

The first-person narrative makes her voice so compelling, but I’m curious whether this was a common technique at the time or a deliberate choice to deepen her character.