Daniel Defoe/Moll Flanders versus Choderlos De

Laclos/Dangerous Liaisons

Moll Flanders was written as a projection of Daniel Defoe’s life

he was shrouded with much struggle having been born and raised in a lower class family

The French Choderlos De Laclos was born in an aristocratic family

Dangerous Liaisons mirrors the life of aristocrats and some of the most typical liaisons they engaged in life

1. Dangerous Liaisons’ structure is an epistolary novel

2.Moll Flanders is more of prose or story