Abstract:

Feminism is defined in literature in many ways. As a clear movement, it has social, economic and political calls in literature history. As a removal of these social movements, feminism tries to share a common purpose. The main objective of feminist understanding is to explain, create and gain gender personal, political, economic and social equality. According to Bell Hokks, it is a fact that, where female relationships in British society have been impossible over the years, male relationships have been accepted and approved by the paternal culture. In this context, the 18th-century British novelist Daniel Defoe famous novel Moll Flanders depicts such a male world and the defects of paternity. In this study, gender injustice, female egocentrism, and the devastating effects of paternal order were addressed in light of Simon de Beauvoir’s existencial philosophy to demonstrate the feminist attitude of women in the British society of the eighteenth century.

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