... little to enter into the farther particulars of the family, or of myself, for the five years that I liv"d with my husband" (Moll Flanders p. 56) Moll's values here seem to merely be existence. She has two children by Robin but she seemed only content to survive the marriage ... was alter"d with me, I had money in my pocket, I had been trick"d once by that Cheat call"d, LOVE, but the Game was over.." (Moll Flanders p59) Moll did indeed fall into the snare called love and also became accustomed to the high living that she and her husband took part in. He was not a good ... of Expence, tha...

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... from these obstacles the person and those around will, ideally, take with them a lesson and learn from the experience. Daniel Defoe's novel Moll Flanders seems to lie out an instruction manual on life for readers and evidence of this can be found in a close reading of selected passages through out ... was forced to see the positive aspects of marrying Robin, the younger brother. One can see this portrayed throughout the rest of the novel; Moll is shown something that looks better than her current situation and she automatically goes for it, because after all, anything could be better than...

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... with child in Moll Flanders that many authors have shown in their novels. Instead, we see a conditional love, which is reliant on wealth and security. Throughout the course of the novel the readers never see a solid motherly figure in both Moll, and her own mother. Defoe shows a motherly figures in Moll's very first nurse ... of her marriages. In her first marriage, she describes her relationship and her children very briefly. After 5 years and the death of her husband, Moll says, "My two children were taken happily off my hands, by my husbands father and mother, and that by the way was ...

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• Grade Level: High School