Since the early 1990's Defoe has written many great novels on which he has based his life upon. Out of his writings, Moll Flanders is by far the best description of Daniel's young childhood up to his late adulthood. In this novel he expresses real life situations and compares them to his...

Moll Flanders: Sinner or Saint? There are many reasons why Daniel Defoe's classic novel Moll Flanders is still studied today. One of the reasons that it is still so widely studied is that there are significant reasons to doubt the sincerity of Moll's repentance at the end of the novel. Her conver...

Beyond a Whore Daniel Defoe's novel depicts a woman that uses her resources to achieve her financial and economic desires. To the audience, whoever that may be it may seem that Moll Flanders is a money hungry harlot who does not have any regard to anyone but herself. Instead Moll uses her...