Summary “Moll Flanders”
Moll comes back to London, is sad for her husband, adores sweet memories, until she discovers that she is pregnant. Born in a boarding house “for single women”, the baby is already established in order to care for a peasant woman from Hartford – and inexpensive, which is not without pleasure notes the mother who has got rid of “hard work”.
It is all the more relieved that correspondence with the bank clerk, which has not been interrupted all the time, brings good news: he obtained a divorce, the late wife who had a late life committed suicide. Having broken decent time (all the heroines of Defoe excellent performers), Moll is getting married for the fifth time. One incident in the provincial hotel, where this precautionary event occurred, frightens Moll “to death”: from the window she sees riders entering the courtyard, one of them undoubtedly Jemmy. Those soon leave, but rumors of robbers, who robbed two carriages on the same day, strengthen
A happy marriage with the clerk lasted five years. The mole day and night blesses the heavens for the mercy sent down, lamenting the former unrighteous life, fearing retribution for it. And the payoff comes: the banker could not bear the loss of a large sum, “plunged into apathy and died.” In this marriage, two children were born – and a curious thing: not only is it difficult for the reader to count all her children, but Moll (or Defoe?) Herself is confused – then it turns out that she has one son from the “last husband” whom she, naturally, defines into the wrong hands. For Moll came hard times. She is already forty-eight, the beauty has faded, and, worst of all, for this active nature, who was able at a difficult moment to gather strength and show incredible vitality, she “lost all faith in herself.” More and more often visit her ghosts of hunger and poverty, until finally “
The second part of the book is a chronicle of the steady fall of the heroine, who became a successful, legendary
As one might expect, luck once betrays her, and, to the spiteful joy of the merchants languishing in Newgate, she makes them company. Of course, she also repents bitterly at the fact that she once succumbed to the temptation of the “devil” and that she did not have the strength to overcome the glamor when she did not threaten starvation yet, but the thought that she “got caught” and therefore the sincerity and depth of her repentance are doubtful. But the priest trusts her, by the efforts of “pestunya” (“grief-stricken”, she even becomes ill on the ground of repentance), who applies for the death penalty. The judges satisfy her petition, the more so that Moll officially passes as the first convicted. In prison, she meets her “Lancashire husband” Jemmy, which is not very amazed, knowing his occupation.
In Virginia, Moll meets her already grown-up son Humphrey (the husband’s brother is blind, the son is in charge of all matters), is in possession of the state bequeathed by a long-dead mother. She intelligently leads a plantation farm, condescendingly tolerates “masculine” habits of her husband (he prefers hunting to work), and they get rich at the right time, they both return. to England “to spend the rest of our days in sincere repentance, lamenting about our bad life.”
The chronicle of life Moll Flanders ends with the words: “Written in 1683”. Surprisingly sometimes dates converge: in the same year, 1683, as if replaced by Moll, “descended from the stage,” a ten-year-old Roxane was brought to England from France.
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