Roxana

answers the call is still half-asleep, and they are thinking it’s the mailman. Once the door opens it takes the turn for the worst, men forcing their way in, confiscating all possessions, and then manhandling the poor victim into a mysterious vehicle. Roxana Saberi, that is her name, she is the “poor victim” of this tragic event all because she is writing a book, but Iran thinks this is just a cover up on the United States attempt to spy. Once she came out of prison confessing she is a spy for the United

By being a femme seule and being a mistress, although Roxana hates having to be a mistress because she considers it immoral, Roxana was sexually liberated and had a job. Roxana had control over both her body and finances once she was no longer married or indebted, as society saw it, to a man. These two facts alone lead me to believe that Roxana can and should be considered an eighteenth-century feminist icon even though I believe she would have chosen a different vocation if she had had the opportunity

Roxana is the cause for the loss of her children, because she continues to stay with her husband when he becomes an irresponsible, poor man, indicating how she is a selfish mother. She talks about the different chain of causes, which leads her to the loss of her children. In the beginning of the novel, she talks about how his business started to decline and that he had to shut down his trade. With five children, they began to struggle, especially him. Instead of him buying a house and providing for

Roxana decided to reach out to her husband’s sisters. However, they were no help to her whatsoever. Roxana says that “they sent [her] short and surely Answers; nor did any of them offer to come to see [her], or to see the children, or so much as to enquire after them…” (54). The children’s own family did not want anything to do with them, and Roxana is the reason because she made the decision to stay with her foolish and poor husband. Eventually, Roxana had reached her breaking point to where she

Thanks to the lack of financial stability, Roxana faces a decision that no mother wishes to encounter, she had to abandon her children. It took several years of her amounting a great fortune before she is able to reach out to her children. Those same years of amounting wealth came at a price, Roxana’s mind. She begins to think about her life and her choices. These thoughts included her children to the point that her maternal aspects that seemed to be dormant come into fruition. She attempts to support

Maddox, James H. “On Defoe's Roxana.” vol. 51, no. 4, 1984, pp. 669–691 Looking at the framework of Defoe’s previous novels, Maddox demonstrates how although Roxana follows a similar pattern of other characters, her outcome is drastically different. In former novels, when faced with a moment of devastation, the character divided from their previous self, and in turn gained control. From there, the character is faced with yet another unfavorable situation, but this time they are able to overcome it

responsibility was to their household. This caused many to feel a loss of identity. In Daniel Defoe’s Roxana, Roxana refuses to accept the role given to her by society in a patriarchal age when a husband’s role was to govern his family and household. This rejection allows Roxana to have power over the men in her life. Throughout the story of Roxana, the union of marriage is continuously coming into play. Roxana continues to avoid the act of marriage and the wifely role, which she habitually equates to servitude

Roxana claims that her agency over her own life, especially with regards to her relationships, businesses, and general autonomy, is unacceptable while simultaneously alluding to the fact that her life as a femme seule is what allowed her to accomplish and maintain a life independent of any semblance of masculine control. Daniel Defoe begins his novel, history, or story of Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress explaining how the goal of the “History of this Beautiful Lady, is to speak for itself” and

Roxana: The Unfortunate Mistress and the Discourse of Marriage “...I thought a woman was a free agent, as well as a man, and was born free, and cou’d she manage herself suitably, might enjoy that liberty to as much otherwise as the men do; that the laws of matrimony were indeed, otherwise, and mankind at this time, acted quite upon other principles; and those such, that a woman gave herslef entirely away from herself, in marriage, and capitulated only to be, at best, but an upper-servant, and

Marriage in Pamela and Roxana Eighteenth century England's social values irrevocably intertwined woman's virtue and marriage, particularly for the upper class. This intertwining arose from the fact that wealth was land, and in order to make certain that the land passed down to a legitimate heir the mother's virtue must be beyond doubt, ensuring that family honor remain unblemished and wealth followed the proper line of succession. As a result virtue, followed by pedigree