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    be lying to obscure the truth (author of Preface 5). The narrator, who goes by the “name of Moll Flanders”, does not expose herself (Defoe 7). When the novel begins she exclaims that “My True Name is so well known in the Records, or Registers at Newgate, and in the Old-Baily….that it is not expected I should set my Name” (Defoe 7). The narrator conceals her true name to the readers because she recognizes that the proclamation of her name may result in an imprisonment for prior felonies. It is at

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    Moll Flanders Analysis

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    teach her how to love her own children, they were nothing more than a happenstance of sex, or if it was because she was never able to feel secure of her own basic needs and thus couldn’t think to take care of another’s. Firstly, Moll was born in a prison because her mother was a convicted felon. After six months, her mother was transferred to a

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    ‘Moll Flanders’ did not start off as your typical story for a Victorian era novel. The Novel ‘Moll Flanders’ pushed the envelope and ultimately was a novel that assisted women in the progression of femininity writing. There were undoubtedly other authors who assisted with this progression as well for instance, Mary Wollstonecraft who publish later than this work, which could lead one to assume this work aided her in doing so, so that in the future she would be able to publish her works which are

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    The use of disguises in the arts has been around since the introduction of the theater. When eighteenth-century Britain latched onto the concept in literature, it took on whole different meanings. Disguises no longer had to be masks or wardrobe changes, they could be taking on different personas or creating different characters. Disguises had become a staple in literature, and authors were creating their own worlds with them. In “The Imperfect Enjoyment” by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, disguises

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    service to; anti slavery laws, religious teachings , nursing programs, homeless shelters, and women’s prisons. Her ideas and work in the prisons were radical during her time. She was a women with power and privilege. She used both to service the pathetic. I will show you how Elizabeth Fry is an example of the power of one. Her countless acts of kindness, created peace and positive changes in the prison systems. Over 150 years later her past efforts continue to ignite advocacy, rehabilitation

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    provoking more violence and causing mental deterioration. Some prisoners may even end up spending an entire life sentence in solitary confinement, which defeats the purpose of rehabilitation. It is often viewed as a mere act of torture. According to the Prison Policy Organization, “An estimated 56 percent of state prisoners, 45 percent of federal prisoners, and 64 percent of jail inmates have a mental health problem” (Mental). Most inmates need help, not to just be locked away and kept apart from the world

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    Prison literature, epitomized as a thriving literary genre, is identified as literature which is penned while the author is unwillingly kept in a location, such as a penitentiary, jail, detention center, correctional facility, house arrest or in solitary confinement. The literature produced by writers during or after their incarceration can be about prison as place of Romantic solitude and the prison as brutal, inhuman institution. This can be illustrated in a number of forms including epistle, autobiography

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    Susan Craig Analysis

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    for imprisonment mothers and their children in London, Newgate Gaol, where women were authorized to care for their children by the early 1800s”

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    Punishments for crimes has changed tremendously from the 1800s. Crime rates began to rise because of an increase in population and wealth. Punishment has been around for thousands of years. The law originally stated that only slaves were allowed to be punished, and was later changed allowing free men to be tortured for committing crimes as well. The harsh punishments include, people getting their dominant hand cut of for stealing, and people were also burned alive. Women who committed adultery were

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    importance for this time of prison reform and they were, “(1) separation of women prisoners from men, (2) provision of differential care, and (3) management of women’s prisons by female staff” (Clear, 2013). Basically the concern was female prisoners to be house separately from the male prisoners in a facility ran by female staff. In state prisons it is estimated that women account for nearly twenty-five percent of the workforce (Clear, 2013). However in the Federal Bureau of Prisons it is estimated that

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