Robinson Crusoe
(Daniel Defoe)
Daniel Defoe's epic tale depicts mans ability to overcome adversity in
the face of insurrmountable odds. Published in 1719, the book was
loosely based on the time spent on a south seas island by Alexander
Selkirk, who was marooned after disagreeing with the captain about
repairs to the hull of the ship, which, incidentally sank not long
afterwards.
Defoes desciptions throughout this book are almost told in triplicate,
as Robinson crusoe is torn by his own religious convictions which lead
him to question the very purpose of his life upon the island and why he
never listened to his father's advice and enjoyed the security of the
middle station of life at home. Why he was ardently driven to run away
from all he knew dear, to a life of wreckless abandonment on the high
seas, risking life and limb, and indeed death at almost every twist in
his fate. Fate, which seemed to turn around as quickly as the tide that
greeted him each morning upon the island. Continually tortured by his
own paranoid ramblings and eventually thoughts of suicide, Crusoe's only
saving grace was his belief in god.
Significantly, it is this belief that is a continual resolution to his
problems, and for all the troughs and peaks amid this novel, Defoe's
driving force behind Crusoe's survival, is his faith.
Most memorable is; Crusoe's saving of man Friday from been eaten
by cannibals and their liberation. Crusoe's
capture by a Turkish pirate at Salee, escape and journey through Europe where
they're attacked by hungry wolves, and the brief foray into solvency with Crusoe's sugar plantation, and probably the most surprising part
of the whole book was Crusoe's return to the island. Also, lets not
forget that 'Robinsoe Crusoe' made Daniel Defoe quite wealthy while he was alive; clearly
noted as a hint to a sequel was the finishing line, 'All these
things, with some very surprising incidents in some new adventures of
my own, for ten years more, I may perhaps give a further account of
hereafter'....a fitting ending to a remarkable adventure novel.
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