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A spiritual autobiography

-Full of religious references to God, sin, providence, salvation

- the hero reads the Bible to find comfort and guidance

-Defoe explores the conflict between

economic motivation and spiritual salvation

Middle-class hero

Robinson shares restlessness with classical heroes of travel literature 

Conclusion

My personal impression of the book is that it was a suspenseful and adventurous book with many plot changes that made it more exciting.

act of transgression, of disobedience

Robinson Crusoe

I liked this book because its a plot changing story which makes it a suspenseful and a dramatic book. I also liked it because it is a book that doesn't make you stop reading it.. Best of all, I like it because its a classic book and I like reading classic books.

Narrator

  • Robinson Crusoe tells his own story.
  • It's written in first person.
  • We know everything that its in his mind.
  • He tells what he is going to do.
  • He tells what is going on around him.

Mood

What is the author's emotional tone or general attitude towards the story?

The mood of the novel is calm, gloomy, spiritual, and violent.

his isolation on the island after the shipwreck

Moll Flanders

By Daniel Defoe

- It has insights into some social problems like crime and the provisions for poor orphans.

- Moll rejects emotional experience, seen as an impediment to the accumulation of capital.

- The novel includes «documents» – Moll’s memorandums, quoted letters, hospital bills – in order to increase the illusion of verifiable fact.

Style

Defoe's novels

  • Fictional autobiographies.
  • A series of episodes and adventures.
  • Unifying presence of a single hero.
  • Lack of a coherent plot.
  • Retrospective first-person narration.
  • The author’s point of view coincides with the main character’s
  • Characters presented through their actions
  • Clear and precise details
  • Description of the primary qualities of objects (number, extension, solidity)
  • Simple, matter-of-fact and concrete language.

Robinson the hero

Classical hero of travel literature: restless, in search of his own identity in alternative to the model provided by his father

Middle-class hero:

- creates a society which is the exaltation of 18th cent, society

- can mould his own destiny and modify reality through work and action

- Puritan elements: relation with God, pragmatic and individualistic outlook.

The individual and the society

- The society Robinson creates on the island is not an alternative to but an exaltation of 18th-century England,

its ideals of mobility, material productiveness, and individualism.

- Though God is the prime cause of everything,

the individual can shape his destiny

through action

The island

Themes and style

  • The ideal place for Robinson to prove his qualities
  • Robinson organizes a primitive empire --> prototype of colonizer
  • Not a return to nature, but a chance to exploit and dominate nature

Take notes about the following:

- Robinson's social class and its influence on him as a character,

- the importance of religion in the novel,

- the physical and symbolical meaning of the island,

- the characteristics of the style,

- the characteristics of the language used by Defoe,

- what all of Defoe's novels have in common.

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