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Robinson Crusoe: Introduction

ROBINSON CRUSOE

PLOT

-York 1632, german-english

-19, he left his home

1: Guinea-England

2:Moorish pirates, Portoguese ship, Brazil

3:Africa, shipwreck

4:28 years, desert island

5:Find cannibals, free Friday

6:Attack cannibals

7:Retun to England

ROBINSON'S ISLAND

THE ISLAND

  • main setting
  • Test for the character
  • similar to England's colonization
  • human domination on nature
  • reflection of 17th century English society

THE CHARACTER

ROBINSON

FIRST AGES

  • middle class
  • sense of adventure and act of disobedience

ON THE ISLAND

EXALTATION OF:

  • 18th century english society
  • middle class
  • bourgeois valu...
  • 18th century english society
  • middle class
  • bourgeois values
  • enlightenment
  • puritan philosophy

RELIGION IN ROBINSON

RELIGION

ROBINSON'S FATE

Rebellion

Family

ROBINSON'S FATE

God's Punishment

MAN VS GOD

  • God: primary cause of everything
  • men create their own destinies
  • religious interpretation of everyday life
  • religion is an important part of 17th century
  • men seek salvation and comfort
  • Defoe shows how men used to link religion to economy and materialism
  • similar to today's society

BIBLICAL THEMES

JONAH

BIBLICAL THEMES

JOB

A SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY

  • Religious reference to God, sin, Providence and salvation
  • Comfort and guidance
  • Conflict good-evil
  • Conflict between economic motivation and

spiritual salvation

FRIDAY AND THE COLONIZATION

  • very first native character of English literature
  • symbol of the colonized
  • injustice and white superiority
  • 17th century education
  • different vision of things and life
  • he teaches Crusoe emotional warmth and vitality of spirit

EDUCATION

GOD DEBATE

SPORT

STYLE

  • first person narration
  • clear and detailed writing style
  • focus on the primary qualities of objects rather than the secondary ones
  • simple, concrete and matter of fact language like journalism
  • Robinson records events to see God's will in them
  • rationality, individualism, pragmatism

STYLE

CURIOSITIES!

Defoe adopted the aristocratic sounding "De" in his surname in 16...

CURIOSITIES!

Defoe adopted the aristocratic sounding "De" in his surname in 1695

Inspired by A Cruising Voyage Round the world by Captain Woodes Rogers, a Scottish sailor who survived on an island for five years

Films

robinson crusoe(1966)

man friday(1975)

castaway(2000)

Robinson for kids

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