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Moll Flanders and The Princes of Celves

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After reading the two different novels, I have many thoughts and questions about the two completely different novels. It is obviously the novels have so many differences, the gender of authors, the nationality, as well as the experience in their lives, but the huge gap among their social classes gives the two novels more depth and thoughtful meaning to enjoy. The book Moll Flanders was written by Daniel Defoe who was an English trader, writer, and journalist, and mainly about the whole life of Moll, from her youth time to declining years, how she changed by the environment forces to condescend to be a prostitute. Moll was given birth in a jell, her mother escaped the punishment, then she adopted by a kind women and sent her to school, however good time never last long, the elder brother seduce her. I do not want to over criticize Moll’s choice, but it apparently that Defoe’s book is not for preach, but teaching young girls to identify the potential dangers among them, there is no free lunch, and the people must up to something. The elder bother, in fact, could not spend so many time and efforts to bring her to the lure, and Robert who eventually married her but dies after five years. I did not really count how many husband does Moll have, but absorb sex does make sense in the novel. She then has marriage with the draper, the plantation owner, (a gentleman who is eventually makes her his mistress for 6 years) the banker, James who also her “ Lancashire Husband” and Humphrey. During that time, a woman is hardly alive after her husband died, Moll has to live by herself. She comes from a comparably lower class to Miss Chartres (The Princes of Cleve), she does not have any other dependent and incoming source so she stole lesbian. It is very ironic after she got caught and went back to the jell where she born. Moll, well, she did received some level education, but compared to Chartres who was born in a higher level social classes eve

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