Life and Fiction in Defoe’s Moll Flanders

Mall Flanders by Daniel Defoe is an important example that should not be overlooked. The novel is a story and a historical event that is based on history. The researcher does not intend to highlight a full knowledge about Defoe’s novel. The first part will be concerned with the act of telling the story. The second part of this essay will trace the gesture of destroying the story. The researcher has to argue that it never takes place in reality, and the journey is not a journey in space. Interpretation is a matter of reading the text from different and sometimes opposite angles of view which is the strategy of this essay.