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This 6 page paper contrasts and compares Newgate Prison to the character of Moll Flanders, in Daniel Defoe's novel by the same name. Quotes given from the text. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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that Moll is born into places a significant role throughout her life time. As such, then, if one wants to understand the novel, one must understand why Newgate prison played
such a significant role, what its reputation was during the time in which Defoe wrote, and how it played a symbolic role in the novel. The prison itself got
its name from the fact that it was located near the front gates of the city, which had been replaced frequently(Dunebin 114). Thus, it was called new gate. The general
procedure was to take the guilty to a church service the day of their execution, during which time an open coffin was placed on a table in front of them(Dunebin
114). One can only imagine the psychological terror that this must have created. The story of Moll flanders is about a beautiful woman who is born into the harshness
of poverty, inside the prison of Newgate. Her life begins and ends in Newgate. Before this end, however, the story will find Moll meeting and surviving nearly every terrible sort
of life circumstance one can imagine for a woman. And, yet, she manages to succeed and achieve. One of the overall motivations for Molls criminal lifestyle is that she
is determined that she will not be penniless as her mother and father must have been. Neither she nor her children would be penniless. Early on she begins to understand
that her beauty could be used to great advantage, and to this end, she plied her trade for many years. Later, when it was possible, she married a rich husband.
In fact, she married several times, each one better off than the next. However, Molls greed was legendary. She turned her considerable talents toward thievery. Moll managed to escape
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