An Analysis of Female Roles in Novels
-- Taking Moll Flanders as an Example
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https://doi.org/10.54097/jeer.v4i1.10227Keywords:
Moll’s Characteristic, Growing Experience, Patriarchal SocietyAbstract
As a realistic novel —Moll Flanders uses the autobiographical form to directly show readers a picture of people’s life in Britain in the 18th century. The author Daniel Defoe reveals the character for us by describing many concrete details. In his novels, there are always thieves, gangsters and other dark forces, which are different from the heroes of the greenwood who rob the rich to feed the poor in Chinese novels of the same period. This article aims to show a deeper understanding of the characters of this marvelous book by analyzing the growth process of the protagonist, at the same time, through the analysis of the era in which the novel is set, experiencing the struggle and difficulty of women’s fate in the patriarchal society.
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