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A 4 page paper which examines the
education, or lack of education, as it relates to a life of crime as seen in the character of
Moll in “Moll Flanders” by Daniel Defoe. No additional sources cited.
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4 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAmolled.rtf
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to consider. It is a story of a woman who struggles through her life, going from an impoverished child to a woman of substantial means in a time period when
such realities were often unheard of. This is not to say that she remains a woman of means, for she struggles with her situations and her reality and essentially makes
many journeys which land her in a less than wealthy state. It is a rags to riches to rags again tale in many ways. There are, as would be imagined,
many ways in which one could examine the complex and determined character of Moll Flanders. In the following paper we examine the character of Moll Flanders as it involves her
level of education and its relationship to her life of crime. Moll Flanders In providing a very short summary of the story we note that Moll is born
to a woman who is sent to America to work on plantations because she has been convicted of petty theft. Moll is left to be raised by gypsies who then
leave her in Colchester. The parish officers of the area give her to woman who runs a small school where Moll informs workers that she wants to grow up to
be a gentlewoman. What this means is that she wants to support herself and not live in poverty. At one point she goes to live with a woman
and her daughters, for the woman is very impressed with Molls attitude and ladylike behavior. However, Moll and the womans older son fall in love, a powerful learning lesson for
Moll. She is not wise enough to understand that she is merely being used. Instead she finds herself head over heels for this man whose only wish is to seduce
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