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Moll Flanders: Themes
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Three recurring themes in Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe are greed, vanity,
and repentance. Theme is defined as an underlying or essential subject of
artistic representation. These three themes play an important role in the
development of the story of Moll Flanders.
The first theme, greed, is sho ....
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....ng of value she has to give him. One Christmas Day Moll
discovers an unattended silversmith's shop. "I went boldly in and was just
going to lay my hand upon a piece of plate, and might have done it and carried
it clear off…" (Defoe 238). Moll resists the temptation to steal because a
nearby shopkeeper rushes over after having seen her enter the empty store.
While Moll is living with the old governess she has some luck swindling a man at
a gaming-house who seems "…to be of more than ordinary .... |
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