Moll Flanders

Description

Born in Newgate prison and abandoned six months later, Moll”s drive to find and hold on to a secure place in society propels her through incest, adultery, bigamy, prostitution and a resourceful career as a thief (”the greatest Artist of my time”) before she is apprehended and returned to Newgate.
If Moll Flanders is on one level a Puritan”s tale of sin and repentance, through self-made, self-reliant Moll its rich subtext conveys all the paradoxes and amoralities of the struggle for property and power in Defoe”s newly individualistic society.