Concetti Chiave
- Daniel Defoe was born in 1660 in London to a family of Dissenters and became known for his political pamphlets.
- Defoe was arrested for his satirical pamphlet "The Shortest Way with the Dissenters," highlighting the absurdity of religious intolerance.
- He is recognized as the father of modern journalism and the realistic novel, with notable works like "Robinson Crusoe" and "Moll Flanders."
- "Robinson Crusoe" narrates the story of a shipwrecked merchant who survives on an island for 27 years, forming a master-servant relationship with a character named Friday.
- Robinson Crusoe's character is not deeply developed, focusing more on the adventures and survival aspects of the story.
What was Daniel Defoe's early life like?
Daniel Defoe was born in London in 1660 in a family of Dissenters (a protestant group separated by the church of England). In 1692 he published political pamphlets and in only "the shortest way with the dissenters", he pretended to advocate harsher persecution against this Puritan sect, thus showing the absurdity of intolerance. Defoe was arrested, fined and condamned to the pillory (the gogna in italian). He is considered the father of modern journalism and of the realistic novel. In 1719 he wrote "Robinson Crusoe" that appealed to the middle and lower classes. 1722 saw the publication of "Moll Flanders", the autobiography of a prostitute: a generous woman who uses her beauty as a commodity to exchange for money. In this year he wrote also "a journal of the plague years", a pseudo-historical account of the plague which struck London in 1665. He dead in 1731.
Robinson Crusoe's adventures
He is a merchant, shipwrecked on a small island. He tells-in diary form-the adventures on the islands by the arrived to the cannibals and the acquisition of a company, named Friday. Twenty-seven years will pass before Robinson and his companion are finally rescued and taken to England by an English ship. The relationship between Friday and Robinson is the typical relationship between the servant and the master. Robinson Crusoe isn't a round character.
Domande da interrogazione
- What was Daniel Defoe's contribution to literature and journalism?
Daniel Defoe is considered the father of modern journalism and the realistic novel. He is renowned for his works such as "Robinson Crusoe" and "Moll Flanders," which appealed to the middle and lower classes, and for his political pamphlets that highlighted the absurdity of intolerance.
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