Moll Flanders
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is an excellent story about one woman's evolution from a poor economic status to a, later, mid-class caste in life. used her meticulous cunning in order to survive in the 18th century. She started out with a tabula rasa, or clean slate, when she is born, but, eventually, she resorts ....
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.... it would then,
it was certain that my life was very uneasy to me; for
I liv'd, as I have said, but in the worst sort of whoredom,
and as I cou'd expect no Good of it, so really no good issue
came and all my seeming prosperity wore off and ended in misery
and destruction;..."
Whenever Moll would have kids she would sell them or give them away. Moll saw children as a biprouduct of having sex. The choice of going to whoredom, however, was only because she felt the need ....
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Word count: 793
Page count: 3 (approximately 250 words per page)
