Moll Flanders was born in Newate Prison, she was self-sufficient, intelligent and practical female protagonist. Daniel Defoe's novel "Moll Flanders" was first published in the year 1722. This work shows us the life of a courageous Moll, starting from her birth until her old age. Female protagonist moll has some unusual and most striking features which keeps reader's hooked. Moll always craved for stability in her life, but fate was unkind with her, which makes it the story of a survivor. As a writer who has written hundreds of books Daniel used his expertise to add details about Moll's marriages and about her ill fate. Let's read this story of a Survivor by Daniel Defoe to find out how Moll survived with her ill fate.
Daniel defoe was born in 1660, in london, and became initially christened daniel foe, converting his name across the age of thirty-five to sound greater aristocratic. Like his man or woman robinson crusoe, defoe become a third child. His mother and father, james and mary foe, had been presbyterian dissenters. James foe was wax and candle merchant. As a boy, daniel witnessed two of the greatest disasters of the seventeenth century: a recurrence of the plague and the extremely good fireplace of london in 1666. Those events may additionally have shaped his fascination with catastrophes and survival in his writing.
