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A spiritual autobiography
Robinson shares restlessness with classical heroes of travel literature
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
The mood of the novel is calm, gloomy, spiritual, and violent.
his isolation on the island after the shipwreck
- 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.
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 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
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.