It is noteworthy to state the fact that Defoe wrote Molla flanders at a time when there was still little precedence for the novel as a genre . Therefore, he accordingly felt compelled to justify his book by presenting it a true story . In this respect , Moll Flanders is an excellent story about one woman's evolution from a poor economic status to a, later, mid-class caste in life. Moll Flanders used her meticulous cunning in order …showed first 75 words of 1022 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1022 total…not know her husband was of her own flesh and blood. If, indeed, she was aware of the relation and then chose to proceed then one could discus it further in the context of freewill. As for being a whore there is no question that Flanders, especially later in her life, involved herself with such happenings, but for me it was the thievery that seemed to capture the essence of Flanders continual undoing and constant