Armenian Folia Anglistika Literature 182 Morality vs Immorality in the Miserable Life of Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders Vicky Tchaparian Lebanese University Abstract Defoe’s novel, Moll Flanders, the story of a thief, a criminal, a whore, a mistress, a lady, a lover, a beggar, and a plantation owner who lives the life of a repentant at 70, reveals Moll’s both high and low morals. In the present paper I try to reveal the fact that Moll Flanders, the protagonist, and the first person narrator of the novel, speaks in the voice of Defoe who had lived a life of both vice and virtue with all its extremes. Moll Flanders represents the age Defoe lived, along with its harsh and corrupt judicial system, the poverty, the low level of life in the English society, and the injustice of the patriarchy, where love and marriage were commodities in the market called life. In the society where Moll lived, women got married either for money or for title but never for love. Thus, Moll, having neither money nor title, and urging to become a lady, passed through different stages in her life living in vice but later repenting and living in virtue. Key words: Moll Flanders, criminal, immorality, Newgate Prison, mistress, minister, lady, money. Introduction At the time when Daniel Defoe wrote his Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, men dominated the world and England was living black days after the horrible Fire and the Plague that had added on the misfortunes of the poor. In his Preface to the novel Defoe states that the tale is meant to convey a serious moral although Moll’s autobiography which details her scandalous sexual and criminal adventures, may reveal the opposite.