Atte
04-16-2003, 01:00 AM
For me, Moll Flanders is a very complex novel for many reasons. Among them, I would pay special attention to its closely similitude with Don Quixote. Both of them are regarded as personal confessions and as a sort of autobiography which is, in essence, a lie. In Moll Flanders, the heroine tries to excuse her wrong deeds, stating somehow the famous refrain: the aim justifies the means. That is to say, she counts her story after becoming rich, in order to make the audience think the reward is better than the price she had to paid in life, that of being a prostitute).