The poem "The Doer of Good" by Oscar Wilde appears to take
            place in the Holy Lands during the time of Christ.
The two
            allusions of the two men in the story refer to a leper and a blind man, both of whom
            Christ healed in the New Testament accounts in the
            Bible.
The sense of the central figure of the story being
            Christ is supported by Wilde's allusions to the two miracles mentioned above, as well as
            his use of the capitalized pronouns "He" and "His," as is done in the New Testament
            referring to Christ, and throughout the Bible when referring to
            God.
The theme of the story (that human nature is hard to
            change, even in the face of life-altering circumstances) can be applied to any time
            period and any situation, as it refers to the human condition. However, the structure
            Wilde uses to present the theme using [well-known] allusions, and his use of Biblical
            "voice" in the narrative provide (at least figuratively) a setting of the Holy Lands
            where Christ and His disciples lived and worked.
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