Moll Flanders Moll Flanders was a product of her vanity and pride. She devoted her entire life to achieving some sort of wealth and social status. Her pride encompassed her entire life and affected all of her life decisions. Moll sacrificed many things‚ including love‚ religion‚ self-respect‚ and peace of mind‚ in order to attain a sort of affluence. Eventually‚ Moll achieves her desires and retires a gentlewoman in America‚ but her journey definitely took a serious toll on her life. In
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Moll Flanders: Themes Three recurring themes in Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe are greed‚ vanity‚ and repentance. Theme is defined as an underlying or essential subject of artistic representation. These three themes play an important role in the development of the story of Moll Flanders. The first theme‚ greed‚ is shown in Moll’s acts of prostitution. Moll turns to thievery in many instances to support herself. She also allows her morals to disintegrate; a result of her greediness. Moll’s
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Moll Flanders: Fact or Fiction? Although Daniel Defoe endeavors to portray Moll Flanders as an autobiography and convince readers that the sordid affairs of Moll actually occurred‚ readers can find through the reading of his work that Moll Flanders is undoubtedly a completely fictional character. It can be evidenced in the preface and mainly in the dichotomous nature of Moll that she could not possibly be a real person and is just a fictional character. Defoe betrays the credibility of Moll as
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The comparison of characters: Pamela Andrews and Moll Flanders by Miroslava Novysedláková Two beautiful girls. Maybe at first glance we would say that there is certainly nothing what these woman have in common‚ of course‚ except their outstanding beauty. But there is more than one could expect. Firstly‚ both are being seduced by their masters‚ but each of them copes with it quite differently. Pamela Andrews is enormously addicted to maintenance of her virtue. Her virginity is her „Jewel“
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"Moll Flanders [is] a novel in which character is everything and is given the freest play" (E. M. Forster). Bearing this quote in mind‚ discuss Defoe’s representation of Moll Flanders. In Daniel Defoe’s novel‚ Moll Flanders‚ " character is everything and is given the freest play." This quote by E. M. Forster aptly sums up the essence of Moll Flanders. This story is highly character driven; the character‚ Moll Flanders is the story. Thus‚ in the novel we are exposed to information and incidents
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‘Moll Flanders’ is a famous novel written by Daniel Defoe in 1722. The full title of this novel is quite long‚ which is unusual to modern readers‚ and it gives some insight into the outline of the plot: ‘The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders‚Who Was Born In Newgate‚ and During a Life of Continu’d Variety For Threescore Years‚ Besides Her Childhood‚ Was Twelve Year a Whore‚ Five Times a Wife [Whereof Once To Her Own Brother]‚ Twelve Year a Thief‚ Eight Year a Transported Felon In
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Moll Flanders‚ A Fallen Angel Moll Flanders‚ the main character in the book The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders‚ written by Dafoe‚ is telling her life story in this book. The reader can see how her life rise and fall‚ how she is a maid‚ then become a wife in a rich family‚ up and down‚ and then fall into the criminal world. She is a dynamic character. Her up and down life‚ mostly down‚ causes her character to change throughout the novel. Dafoe has succeed to create a Moll that
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the theft‚ Moll optimistically moralizes her actions under natural law. Moll’s uses natural law theories throughout the novel to alleviate internal condemnation of her social misconduct (Zhang). Defoe creatively modifies Moll’s moral‚ spiritual‚ and sexual thoughts‚ that would normally govern human behavior‚ into mercenary values. McMaster goes on to view Defoe as being detached from Moll; judging her and the social class that she represents. Defoe’s overall theme for Moll Flanders is that of mercenary
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Moll Flanders Ethics In this passage of the novel written by Daniel Defoe‚ we can see some characteristics of the ethical model. The main character‚ Moll Flanders‚ passes judgment of her life with the banker. Moll’s husband is appropriately in the banking business. Moll’s banker husband is never much more than a credit statement to her and it is appropriate that he should die as the result of a broken bank balance. The loss of a sum of money is for her a “wound had sunk too deep‚ it was a stab
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Moll Flanders in Daniel Defoe’s novel is portrayed as a witty feminine heroine of survival and an innocent fallen angel of circumstance‚ rather than the vile and cruel criminals in factual materials in the 18th century. In comparing Moll Flanders with criminals in factual fiction‚ such as Anne Holland and Mary Frith (Moll Cutpurse)‚ there are a lot of resemblances. For example‚ the gender of these characters are all female; the last name Holland and Flanders are both some kind
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