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Quote 3. In this instance, life most exactly resembles the stage, since it is often the same person who represents the villain and the heroe; and he who engages your admiration to-day, will probably attract your contempt to-morrow... A single bad act no more constitutes a villain in life, than a single bad part on the stage. Meaning. Here, the narrator examines the various responses to Black George's actions in keeping the money he found. This observation clarifies the roundness of Fielding's characters, and his belief that we are all capable of virtue and vice alike. Because of this capacity for complication, he believes we all need to be judged by our overall character, and not by individual actions. He manifests this philosophy through his hero Tom Jones, who falters along his path to wisdom but ultimately succeeds through overall strength of character.