Morality vs Immorality in the Miserable Life of Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders
Defoe’s novel, Moll Flanders, the story of a thief, a criminal, a whore, a mistress, a lady, a lover, a beggar, and a plantation owner who lives the life of a repentant at 70, reveals Moll’s both high and low morals. In the present paper I try to reveal the fact that Moll Flanders, the protagonist, and the first person narrator of the novel, speaks in the voice of Defoe who had lived a life of both vice and virtue with all its extremes. Moll Flanders represents the age Defoe lived, along with its harsh and corrupt judicial system, the poverty, the low level of life in the English society, and... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2019 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Armenian Folia Anglistika, Vol 15, Iss 1 (19) (2019) |
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Yerevan State University
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Schlagwörter: | Moll Flanders / criminal / immorality / Newgate Prison / mistress / minister / Language and Literature / P |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26694230 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.46991/AFA/2019.15.1.182 |