Book Review Qt 1

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 change her. First, Moll had too much confident in herself and was a bit conceited although she had said she was not. It affected her in a way where she thinks so much of herself that she began to think being pretty and working hard would get her what she wanted. All because her guardian’s friends would praise her and would always give her things for those reasons. “First, I was apparently handsomer than any of them; secondly, I was better shaped; and, thirdly, I sang better, by which I mean I had a better voice.” (26) Moving from place to place gave her an independent attitude. Towards the end of the novel she forgets her virtues and becomes the mistress of many men she thinks are wealthy. “Thus the government of our virtue was broken, and I exchang’d the place of friend for that unmusical harsh-sounding title of whore” (160)
She loses all her respect for money and begins to like it. Second, Flanders lies about everything to keep her character ensconced so nobody could suspect of who she actually was. At the beginning of the story, Flanders argued that being gentlewomen excluded her from working as a servant and that is what she did not want to be. “I am sure they call her madam, and she does not go to service nor do housework; and therefore I insisted that she was a gentlewoman, and I would be such a gentlewoman as that.” (19). she contradicts herself because she does the total opposite, instead of becoming a gentle women she goes and steals and what made