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Robinson

Crusoe

.

Daniel Defoe

About

Author

He is regarded as

-the father of English novel

-the rapresentative of a new social class

1660-1731

Life

-He was born into a family of DISSENTERS, a protestant sect which refused the authority of the Church of England.

-He was educated in one of the best Dissenting academies where he studied modern languages, economics and geography.

-His father wanted a religious career for him but he went into business on his own

-He started to write as a journalist.

-He became a famous intellectual by writing political essays

-The queen did not like his critical attitude and had him arrested

Works

Works

When he was about 60, he started to write novels:

-Robinson Crusoe (1719)

-Captain Singleton (1720)

-Moll Flanders (1722)

-Roxana(1724)

-His narrative technique was original and became the basis for the realistic novel

-His novels are preceded by a preface

-There is a single hero

-He used the first-person narration

-The characters are presented from the inside and they usually appear in isolation

Style

Characters

Characters

Friday

Robinson Crusoe

Friday is the first native character to be described in the English novel

He is attractive and lively

He becomes the symbol of the colonised

The main character is Robinson Kreutznaer born in York in 1632 of a German father and an English mother

Robinson is the hero

He belongs to the middle class

He is restless infact the wants to find his own identity

He is disobedient and transgressive

He has a pragmatic and individualistic outlook

He has a objective and rational approach to reality

He is brave,intelligent and cunning

Plot

Robinson at the age of 19 decided to leave his home in order to travel around the world and MAKE HIS FORTUNE

First he went to Guinea and than back to England

During his second voyage he is captured by Moorish pirates but manages to escape

He is rescued by Portuguese ship and brought to Brazil

He becames the owner of a plantation so sets out on a voyage to Africa to get more slaves

During his voyage he is shipwrecked on a desert island

-Here he writes a diary

Here he re-buils the same kind of society as exists in his country

-He finds a human footprint

-He finds a human bones

-He understands that there are cannibals and decides to attack them

-He manages to free friday and together they free friday's father

-Robinson returns to England

The narration is in first person

The narrator uses simple language

He adds many clear and precise details, such as the number of objects

The novel shows an objective approach

Style

Opinion

behind everything there is god, in fact he is the cause of everything

The setting of the story is the ideal place for Robinson

-to prove his qualites

-to demostrate that he deserved to be saved by God's Providence

Setting

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