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3.21 AVERAGE
3.21 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
A great read, with lots of insight into life in the late 17th century. Likely very scandalous at the time, I loved "Moll" in both her unrepentant and repentant years. I listened to the audiobook edition and the reader was excellent, voicing Moll in all her glory.
No rating but whew we had to read this so fast and it was so long (‘: interesting discussions though
While the lack of chapter breaks still caused some difficulty (as in Robinson Crusoe) I found this narrative easier to follow. I found Moll to be a very sympathetic character, not nearly as wicked as she (and the society in which she lived) made her out to be. From the time she was born, the deck was stacked against her by a society which provided very few opportunities for women to support themselves; she was taken advantage of by unscrupulous men (yes, almost exclusively males). Twice husbands who would have been able to provide for her to some degree passed away leaving her with nothing. Another husband astonishingly turned out to be her half-brother - I mean, what are the odds?! She was so often alone and friendless. She mostly did the best she could with the curveballs she was thrown.
One part that didn't sit well with me, though, was her children. She had several children by her different husbands, several of them died, but excepting the one son in Virginia, we never find out what happened to those children! And that just kills me! She expressed her sorrow at parting from one (with her Lancashire husband), but other than that she seemed almost unemotional about her children until she meets up with her son/nephew in Virginia again.
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One part that didn't sit well with me, though, was her children. She had several children by her different husbands, several of them died, but excepting the one son in Virginia, we never find out what happened to those children! And that just kills me! She expressed her sorrow at parting from one (with her Lancashire husband), but other than that she seemed almost unemotional about her children until she meets up with her son/nephew in Virginia again.
For more book reviews, visit my blog, Build Enough Bookshelves.
Quite enjoyed it though it got quite repetitive in the middle section.
Very interesting for a classic though. A classic talking about woman who takes a darker path in life without the author condemning her or her actions? It's possible.
Sure she does repent later on in the book. But I think the way in whch her criminal activity is described was already shocking enough for its time.
Very interesting for a classic though. A classic talking about woman who takes a darker path in life without the author condemning her or her actions? It's possible.
Sure she does repent later on in the book. But I think the way in whch her criminal activity is described was already shocking enough for its time.
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dnf (41%) because life is too short to read books that i'm not enjoying
Det er virkelig lykkedes Daniel Defoe med Robinson Crusoe og nu Moll Flanders at skrive to "romaner" med yderst vellykkede, særdeles kønsstereotype karakterer. Forudsat at man anerkender Moll Flanders som kønsstereotyp med al sin charmerende adfærd præget af bedrageri, tyveri og kvindelist :-)
Og så må man i øvrigt bare konstatere, at i 1722 er barndommen, eller barnets værdi, endnu ikke anerkendt! Det er ikke mange ord og stort set ingen følelser, der ofres på de stakkels børn, der efterlades i Moll Flanders' kølvand!
Og så må man i øvrigt bare konstatere, at i 1722 er barndommen, eller barnets værdi, endnu ikke anerkendt! Det er ikke mange ord og stort set ingen følelser, der ofres på de stakkels børn, der efterlades i Moll Flanders' kølvand!