Women have it quite taxing in Moll Flanders. They have only got a few options in life. They can be a spouse‚ a lover‚ a servant‚ a criminal‚ or prostitute. When it comes to selecting one of these positions‚ it all comes down to how much wealth a woman has access to. Moll moves between types not only because she endures‚ but also because she is unusually lucky‚ and an expert in manipulation. Like Moll‚ the females in this book look out for themselves more than their children or their partners‚ and
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Almost all critical analysis of Daniel Defoe’s novel Moll Flanders focuses on the question of whether the novel should be read realistically or ironically. Based on the overwhelming amount of critical study focusing on this bifurcation of viewpoints‚ it seems that choosing one of these interpretations is crucial in forming a critical appreciation of the novel. There does exist‚ however‚ a small minority of critics who have come to the conclusion that both readings are equally valid‚ with the caveat
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The Famous Moll Flanders: Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe was a book based on a woman who very much changes throughout the book; I based my report on the main character‚ Moll because she has the most parts in the story which makes her change relatively easier to notice. This character changes in many ways she goes from an incredibly innocent girl to a criminal. Though ever since she was a child she was clever and independent she begins to learn different things about the world that eventually
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MOLL FLANDERS ANALYSIS Defoe wrote Moll Flanders at a time when there was still little precedent for the novel as a genre‚ and he accordingly felt compelled to justify his book by presenting it as a true story. He stages his novel therefore as the memoir of a person who‚ though fictional‚ is a composite of real people who experienced real events in Defoe’s London. (Of course‚ part of the comic effect stems from the fact that no one person could have experienced all that Moll does.) He draws on the
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Characters Moll Flanders - The narrator and protagonist of the novel‚ who actually goes by a number of names during the course of her lifetime. Born an orphan‚ she lives a varied and exciting life‚ moving through an astonishing number of marriages and affairs and becoming a highly successful professional criminal before her eventual retirement and repentance. "Moll Flanders" is the alias she adopts‚ or rather is given by the criminal public‚ during her years as an expert thief. Moll’s Mother
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MOLL FLANDERS QUOTES "Poor child‚’ says my good old nurse‚ ’you may soon be such a gentlewoman as that‚ for she is a person of ill fame‚ and has had two or three bastards.’ Page: 8 soft copy The eldest‚ a gay gentleman that knew the town as well as the country‚ and though he had levity enough to do an ill-natured thing‚ yet had too much judgment of things to pay too dear for his pleasures; he began with the unhappy snare to all women‚ viz. taking notice upon all occasions how pretty I was‚
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Daniel Defoe was born in London in 1660‚ third child and first son of James 1. Daniel received a very good education‚ as his father hoped he would become a minister2‚ but Daniel wasn’t interested. His family was Dissenters‚ Presbyterians to be precise‚ and those sects were being persecuted a bit at this time‚ so maybe Daniel had the right idea. He was always very tolerant of others’ religious ideas himself. His mother died when he was ten‚ and his father sent him to a boarding school‚ after which
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Crudely Human Defoe’s book Moll Flanders offers an interesting glimpse into the ancestry of the works that we call novels today. While much of the work holds characteristics that today’s reader would recognize as those of a novel‚ there are also many moments where Defoe’s technique is obviously outdated. A timeless quality to Defoe’s novel‚ however‚ is the way in which he constructs realistic characters through informal structure‚ a lowered register‚ and an organization of ideas that creates
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the Scourers‚ the Nickers‚ and the Hawkubites. In fiction[edit source] John Gay (better known for The Beggar ’s Opera) wrote a play in 1712 titled The Mohocks - this was printed but never acted in his lifetime. Daniel Defoe ’s 1722 novel Moll Flanders describes Mohocks attacking people at a market. In the historical novel Manituana by Wu Ming‚ a 1770s incarnation of the Mohock gang tries to contact Joseph Brant‚ a Mohawk leader in visit to the king‚ and they apply to become the seventh Iroquois
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Moll Flanders Theme of Money Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders is the alleged autobiography of a woman and her struggle for success and survival in eighteenth-century England‚ the key to which is money. The importance Moll places on financial value and the fact that money controls her thoughts‚ emotions‚ and actions serve as evidence that money is Moll’s god. In the American Tradition Dictionary‚ a god is defined as anything that is "worshiped‚ idealized‚ or followed." Through Moll’s actions
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