Two Part Q&A
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Three Section Assignment w/ Parts A & B Answers for each section, scholarly written, competent, following the instructions completely!
SECTION ONE – Assignment: Defoe’s Moll Flanders, p. 199-285
Part One Required: One Original Post (min. 200 words), One Counter Response to the content (min. 100 words)
Choosing one "episode" from the last part of Moll Flanders (p. 199-285) of the book, discuss the representation of crime or sin in your chosen episode. You must quote from the episode to prove your points. Must quote/cite the specific quotation Found within the text.
Part Two RESPOND to this comment in min 100 words? BEGIn WITH COMMENT PA
Page 201 marks Moll's successful attempts at multiple thefts. She "had dress'd [herself] up in a very mean Habit for [she] had several Shapes to appear in" that aided her in her theft. While standing at a stop, she was approached by a woman who asked who she was and, Moll bluffing, was able to convince the woman that she was of the reputable sort. Shortly thereafter, a woman arrives with a child and a package and Moll convinces the woman to hand her the package and when the woman walks away, she went 'on towards the Ale-house, where the Porter's Wife was" to appear as though she was walking over there to let the lady know the coach had arrived, "but as I did not meet her I walk'd away" and went down many streets, eventually taking the blue apron she wore and wrapping the package with it (199-200). Moll forged a letter to a company and acquired twenty-two pounds of linen and made away with it. In these thefts, and more, she boasts that she "could fill up this whole Discourse with the variety of such Adventures which daily Invention directed to, and which I managed with the utmost Dexterity, and always with Success" (201). Ironically, after these successes, Moll was struck with broils to which she said, "tho' they cou'd not affect me fatally, [the broils] yet made me known, which as the worst thing next to being found Guilty" (201). Moll goes through multiple crimes unscathed but is struck down by broils (boils?) that leave her marked for a time, making it impossible for her to steal or forge anything without being discovered quickly, as such a disease would make her instantly recognizable across the city, no matter the disguise. This mark--this brand--upon her made her business flounder for a time as she was forced to sit and wait out her disease before she could act again. The time of this in the story feels almost judgement-like, or even Deja Vu, for her actions.
SECTION TWO : Oliver Goldsmith's "She Stoops to Conquer" (film/video) Youtube
Requirement: One Original Post (min, 200 words), One Counter Response to content (min. 100 words).
Choose one scene from the film "She Stoops to Conquer," and interpret what happens (or the costumes and setting) using information from the Eighteenth-Century. It is fine if you want to contrast the film with what the original performance would have been like. Do not use the same film scene that another student has already used. . Compare your original post to their thoughts another may have on the film/play.
SECTION THREE - Sammuel Richardson's Pamela (1740)
Required: One Original Post (min. 200 words), Respond to Letter VII.
Part One - Richardson's famous Pamela (1740), is an epistolary novel (written in letters) that shows how an innocent but sensible and virtuous servant girl manages to resist the seductions of her employer, a gentleman called "Mr. B," and become his wife and lady of the estate. For this assignment, you'll need to write an original post about one of the letters (they have numbers in the excerpted text). Analyze the virtue that Pamela shows in her letters to her parents (or, if you choose the last letter, show how her father reveals his own virtue in the letter he writes to her). What constitutes virtue in this novel? Give details.
The Letters
Pamela (1740)
By Samuel Richardson
DEAR FATHER,
Since my last, my master gave me more fine things. He called me up to my late lady's closet, and, pulling out her drawers, he gave me two suits of fine Flanders laced headclothes, three pair of fine silk shoes, two hardly the worse, and just fit for me, (for my lady had a very little foot,) and the other with wrought silver buckles in them; and several ribands and top-knots of all colours; four pair of white fine cotton stockings, and three pair of fine silk ones; and two pair of rich stays. I was quite astonished, and unable to speak for a while; but yet I was inwardly ashamed to take the stockings; for Mrs. Jervis was not there: If she had, it would have been nothing. I believe I received them very awkwardly; for he smiled at my awkwardness, and said, Don't blush, Pamela: Dost think I don't know pretty maids should wear shoes and stockings?
I was so confounded at these words, you might have beat me down with a feather. For you must think, there was no answer to be made to this: So, like a fool, I was ready to cry; and went away courtesying and blushing, I am sure, up to the ears; for, though there was no harm in what he said, yet I did not know how to take it. But I went and told all to Mrs. Jervis, who said, God put it into his heart to be good to me; and I must double my diligence. It looked to her, she said, as if he would fit me in dress for a waiting-maid's place on Lady Davers's own person.
But still your kind fatherly cautions came into my head, and made all these gifts nothing near to me what they would have been. But yet, I hope, there is no reason; for what good could it do to him to harm such a simple maiden as me? Besides, to be sure no lady would look upon him, if he should so disgrace himself. So I will make myself easy; and, indeed, I should never have been otherwise, if you had not put it into my head; for my good, I know very well. But, may be, without these uneasinesses to mingle with these benefits, I might be too much puffed up: So I will conclude, all that happens is for our good; and God bless you, my dear father and mother; and I know you constantly pray for a blessing upon me; who am, and shall always be,
Your dutiful DAUGHTER.
Part TWO – ( min 100 words) One Responce Position to a letter VIII.
LETTER VIII - LAST LETTER
DEAR PAMELA,
I cannot but renew my cautions on your master's kindness, and his free expression to you about the stockings. Yet there may not be, and I hope there is not, any thing in it. But when I reflect, that there possibly may, and that if there should, no less depends upon it than my child's everlasting happiness in this world and the next; it is enough to make one fearful for you. Arm yourself, my dear child, for the worst; and resolve to lose your life sooner than your virtue. What though the doubts I filled you with, lessen the pleasure you would have had in your master's kindness; yet what signify the delights that arise from a few paltry fine clothes, in comparison with a good conscience?
These are, indeed, very great favours that he heaps upon you, but so much the more to be suspected; and when you say he looked so amiably, and like an angel, how afraid I am, that they should make too great an impression upon you! For, though you are blessed with sense and prudence above your years, yet I tremble to think, what a sad hazard a poor maiden of little more than fifteen years of age stands against the temptations of this world, and a designing young gentleman, if he should prove so, who has so much power to oblige, and has a kind of authority to command, as your master.
I charge you, my dear child, on both our blessings, poor as we are, to be on your guard; there can be no harm in that. And since Mrs. Jervis is so good a gentlewoman, and so kind to you, I am the easier a great deal, and so is your mother; and we hope you will hide nothing from her, and take her counsel in every thing. So, with our blessings, and assured prayers for you, more than for ourselves, we remain,
Your loving FATHER AND MOTHER.
Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty. Remember that, Pamela.
