Moll Flanders: The Fortunes And Misfortunes Of The Famous

Moll’s duel and completely contrary nature extends into her manipulations of people; and men in particular. After her affair with the gentleman she met at Bath, Moll intends to put her assets into a bank in order, perhaps, to take care of herself when she is introduced to the banker that was recommended to her. Once she plays her part and realizes that the banker could be induced into matrimony with her, she immediately starts manipulating him towards that end because he is quite successful and wealthy. When the banker offers to marry her, but to abstain from living together and from consummating their marriage until after he obtains the

wealthy and feels like she is in a unhappy marriage. In the novel, she really embraces how

She later got married again to Jere Fryer. She got married in san Francisco,but became a widow in just a year.

In each instance the selfish natures of the characters lead to conisquences that not only affect themselves but also the people around them. In “The Life That You Save May Be Your Own”, Mr. Shiftlet and Mrs. Crater contiuisly use young Lucynell as a pon in their game to gain and automobile and a son-in-law. Leaving the young girl to be abandoned by her new husband and left completely alone. While in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, the grandmother’s selfish and deceitful tendencies lead to the death of herself and her family. All which could have been avoided if she had not tried and changed the family vacation from Florida to East Tennessee. When that did not work she continued to feel the need to make her family miserable and go against everything they asked her to do, including bringing the cat the caused the accident that lead to their

She wanted a marriage where she could get everything that she wanted and to have control. She married five husbands and took money from them and giving her body to them.

When she knows, her husband want to sell Tom and Eliza and her child, she tries to persuade Mr. Shelby sell not sell them. She has the mind sell their farms to repay debt to instead of sell their slaves (Tom,

The book I will be discussing is The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak. This historical fiction novel's central question is about how humans can do both the most beautiful and the most appalling things. Therefore, this central question is, what are humans capable of? How are they capable of such great things, as well, as such horrible things? In this essay, I argue that The Book Thief has more than one important theme and all of them helped to advance the plot and influence the story.

She has no control over her destiny, no control over Macduff’s actions and makes no attempt to save herself or her son from death.

her mother’s guilt; and she is forced to live without a father or other family.

seven years old when she came to the United States. For the first seven years she lived in a

The reading begins with an interview conducted by Henry Masias of the University of Maryland on an individual only known as ‘Jason’. Throughout the interview Masias questions Jason about his crimes and his subsequent justification for them; Jason explains he began his criminal behavior at age 14 by simply pirating software, stealing online accounts and services, he states that these actions weren’t necessarily done for material gain but were more of a adrenaline rush and a way to gain information, comparing it to a puzzle he says “It was just you finding it. It was digging through 30,000 pages of information and finding the one you were looking for” (Goode, 2015). It wasn’t until he was much older that he began stealing material objects such

In the story,”The Necklace, ‘‘Loisel is a woman who wishes she had luxuries.She once had being in the middle class.In the story ,loisel represented that the characteristics are shamed and picky.One exaple her husand said that he wasn’t going to buy her jewelry .When she was going tothe ball,she didn’t have anything to wear .She had to choose a piece of jewelry but just not any necklace,Loisel was picky and looed for a diamond necklace .She was humiliated on not having a nice dressand jewelry.

Because of a dangerous illness of her mother, the young neighbour has to leave and couldn't take care of her children anymore. This is why Mamzelle Aurélie, who has never ever has children before, has to keep them.

Now Moll is seeking her third marriage. She proceeds with this by being influenced by her personal experiences so far. Being deceived by her first love, then deceiving herself about her second husband, she tried her hand at match-making. Moll helped her friend find her Sea Captain through deception. Then Moll’s friend sees it is only just to deal with men in their own way; ‘to Deceive the Deceiver’ (2011 p65). Interestingly, the man whom Moll sets out to deceive isn’t a deceptive or manipulative man. Both women played the game very well. Moll Flanders got her man without much difficulty. She let him profess his love for her and let him believe she was rich. Moll truly liked and respected her suitor but thought it was criminal to deceive him. So once she was married, Moll took the opportunity to bring him that little stock she had (2011 p69), and he was satisfied that he got the wife he loves and believed Moll didn’t deceive him. Nevertheless, since he expected more money from his wife and was earning less from his plantations, he started to talk about taking Moll to Virginia. She agreed. This was all in aid of Moll deceiving her husband by letting him think she had no money and wouldn’t be disappointed when she showed him how much she really had. Throughout this period of time,

She began her criminal rendezvous by stealing a package in which she claimed 'was calling to her to take'. Eventually, she gets to the point where she is so well off from stealing that she could retire from living a criminal life. Her criminality seems to give her an identity in life. She can no longer be defined by the men she marries, so she must turn elsewhere. Moll never seems to truly find herself within this novel, and her criminality seems to give her a façade to hide behind. When Moll claims she is rich when marrying Jemy, this is another façade to hide behind. Overall, Moll’s criminality seems like a crutch she uses to navigate herself through society.