Concetti Chiave
- Robinson Crusoe, a character from the middle class, embarks on global travels leaving behind family comforts.
- Crusoe's adventures include a shipwreck on a deserted island, where he survives for twenty-eight years, documenting daily events.
- He encounters cannibals and rescues a prisoner named Friday, whom he educates, forming a friendship.
- The deserted island serves as a backdrop for Crusoe to demonstrate his qualities and earn divine salvation.
- Through rational problem-solving, Crusoe exemplifies the self-made-man and the English colonizer spirit.
* The most important character of the novel written by Daniel Defoe is Robinson Crusoe, he born in York in 1632 by German father and English mother. Robinson is part of the middle class and at the age of nineteen years he decides to leave his family and all the comforts to travel all over the world.
Travels and Adventures of Robinson
* In his first voyage he is in Guinea and then he returned to England during his second voyage he was captured by Moorish pirates but after a few years he manages to escape and he was rescued by a Portuguese ship that leads in Brazil. During a voyage to Africa he shipwrecked on a deserted island where he remained for twenty-eight years. He wrote a diary with all the events most important of the day, after twenty years of solitude he found other human beings on this island the cannibals.
Encounter with Cannibals
* He attacked the cannibals and he saved a prisoner, which he called Friday as the day that has been found, Robinson taught him to eat, speak and read the Bible,so the two become friends. The novel ends with the return of Robinson in England and he discovered that he had become very rich thanks to a plantation in Brazil.
Robinson as Hero and Colonizer
* Robinson is the main character of the novel, but he is also a hero who comes from the middle class. Robinson is considered self-made-man, a man capable of building a empire thanks to his ability and his common sense as example of English coloniser.
The Deserted Island as a Test
* The deserted island is the place setting of the novel,it is the ideal place where Robinson can prove to all its quality and he proves that he deserved to be saved by God.
Society and Religion on the Island
* The society creates by Robinson on the island is not an alternative to English, but on the contrary, he shows us the English society of the eighteenth century. Defoe sees in God the first cause of all things, and people can change reality only with reading and interpretation the Bible.
Rational Method of Robinson
* He applies to every situation, the rational method, at the begin he says to the problem and at the end he made a list of possible solutions likely to arrive to solve the problem.
* The language of the novel is simple.
Domande da interrogazione
- Who is the main character in Daniel Defoe's novel, and what is his background?
- What significant events occur during Robinson Crusoe's travels?
- How does Robinson Crusoe's experience on the deserted island reflect his character and abilities?
- How does the novel portray society and religion through Robinson's actions on the island?
The main character is Robinson Crusoe, born in York in 1632 to a German father and English mother. He is from the middle class and decides to leave his family at nineteen to travel the world.
Robinson's travels include being captured by Moorish pirates, escaping with the help of a Portuguese ship, and shipwrecking on a deserted island where he lives for twenty-eight years, encountering cannibals and saving a prisoner named Friday.
The deserted island serves as a test where Robinson demonstrates his qualities as a self-made man and hero, showcasing his ability to build an empire and survive using his common sense and rational method.
Robinson creates a society on the island that mirrors 18th-century English society, emphasizing the importance of God as the first cause of all things and the transformative power of reading and interpreting the Bible.
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