Moll Flanders is an excellent story about a woman's rise from low economic status to a later middle class caste. Moll Flanders used her meticulous cunning to survive the 18th century. She started with a blank slate, or blank slate, at birth, but, ultimately, resorted to an immoral life to survive. When she learns that her husbands are dying very quickly, but giving her money to have sex with them, she turns to a life of prostitution. However, this choice was only made out of survival instinct. In the 1800s, the legal system was not in favor of women. Women would inherit nothing when their husband died. That's why Moll Flanders had to resort to a life of crime after she no longer looked good enough to make a living as a whore. All of this ultimately led to her imprisonment and her journey to America to live happily with her husband. Moll Flanders has chosen her life as a prostitute. She states on page 138: “Well, even if his life had been as it would have been then, it was certain that my life was very troubled for me; for I lived, as I said, but in the worst kind of prostitution. , and as I could expect no good from it, no good outcome occurred and all my apparent prosperity dissipated and ended in misery and destruction;..." Whenever Moll had children, she sold them or gave them away. However, the choice to go into prostitution was only because she felt the need to survive. this survival instinct Every time she married a man, he paid her for sex, but her life was short. This forced her to find another person in order to have money to eat and. housing Indeed, the legal system of the 18th century did not allow women to inherit anything upon the death of their spouse so Moll Flanders had to turn to a life of crime at the age of forty. -eight years old, when she could no longer earn a living by having sex for money. The first time she steals something, she feels guilty. She began her career by stealing a watch from a small child and even considered killing him..