Thursday, 28 January 2016

"Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe

                                           "Robinson Crusoe"

                      Deniel Defoe was born in  1659 . Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer, and spy. then the famous his novel  ‘Robinson Crusoe’ . Daniel Defoe born toward of the summer of 1660 died on  April 24 , 1731 . his original surname  foe , Defoe altered it in 1703 . Defoe  was an author of famous novel ‘ Robinson Crusoe’ a simply the story of a man shipwrecked alone on an island . whenever , Samuel Richardson  Defoe is considered the founder of the English novel . Daniel Defoe before his time stories  were usually written as long as long poem or dramas .

“ One day , about noon , going towards my
Bout , I was exceedingly surprised with the
Print of a man’s naked  foot on the shore
Which was very plain to be seen on the sand”
       
                                         by Robinson Crusoe




 Robinson Crusoe is a novel written by  Daniel Defoe . this novel first  published on 25 , April , 1719 .  the first edition credited the work’s fictional protagonist  Robinson Crusoe as it’s author and the many readers to believe . he was a real person and the book a travelogue of the true incidents the original title is;

“ The life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe , of York , mariner :  who liyed eight and twenty
Years all alone in an uninhabited island an the coast of
America , near the mouth of the great river of orooneque:
Having been  cast on shore by shipwreck wherein   all the
Men perished but himself with an account how he has at
Last as strangely delivered by pyrites…….”

                 The novel is it’s simple narrative style and then Robinson Crusoe was well known as the literary  world  and then credited as  marking . the beginning of realistic way of fiction as a literary genre and before the end of novel 1719 the book had alredy ran through four edition .
# Historical Background
                  
                                  By the time of Robinson Crusoe European nations had acquird empires in south America , Asia  and Africa  . Daniel Defoe was display interested in the voyages . so , he wrote about voyages. Daniel Defoe tells  tale of a marooned individual in order in critize society . by using the island location , similar to that of tempt , Defoe also depict Crusoe’s island as a microcosm of European society . Crusoe’s European values  and education are evident : he colonizes the island by building houses . his successful development on the island parallels that of the British empire  around the 18th century .

# Plot - overview of the novel

                             Crusoe sets sail from the in Hull on a sea voyage in August , 1651 . Crusoe against the wishes of his parents . crusoe wants him to pursue a career if possibly in law . after a tumultuous journey where his shipwrecked in a storm . his lust for the sea out to sea gain . later that two years he escapes in a bout with a boy named Xury . xury a captain of a Portuguese  ship off the west coast of Africa  rescues him  Crusoe is a  shipwrecked in a about  forty miles out to sea on an island near the mouth of the Orinoco river on 30 , September ,1659 .

                  Crusoe sees penguins  and  seals  on his island only he and three animals the captain’s dog and two cats the survive shipwreck . Crusoe making mark in A wooden cross he creates a calendar by using tools  salvaged from the  ship . Crusoe also adopt a small parrot .   Crusoe believes in Christianity  and he reads the bible and becomes religious  thinking god for his fate in which nothing is missing but human society .

                   Crusoe meets a new companion ‘ Friday’ . after the day of the week he appeared  Crusoe teaches him English and Friday converts him to Christianity . Crusoe and Friday kill most of the natives  and save two  prisoners . if their Friday’s  father and bring back the other , build a ship , and a sail to a Spanish port .

                 Crusoe leaves the island 19 , December , 1686. And arrives in England on 11 , June , 1687 . if the learns that his family believed in dead . as a result but he  was left nothing in his father’s will . Crusoe transports his wealth overland to England to avoid travelling by sea .


No comments:

Post a Comment