"Robinson Crusoe" di Daniel Defoe

"Robinson Crusoe"written by Daniel Defoe

INDEX

1. DEFOE'S LIFE

4. MAIN CHARACTERS: ROBINSON vs FRIDAY

2. DEFOE'S STYLE

5. TEAM WORK

3. ROBINSON CRUSOE": NOVEL AND PLOT

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DEFOE'S LIFE

Part 3 - Death

Part 1 - Biography

- He was considered the Father of Modern Journalism -> He published and wrote a newspaper The Review for 9 years (1704-1713).- He died in debt in 1731 in London.

Part 2 - Facts

He was born in a Puritan family in London in 1660.He was the son of a dissenter from the Church of England.

- He was a novelist and journalist. - Active in politics. He supported and defended King William after the Glorious Revolution of 1688. - He was imprisoned twice for his political writings.

DEFOE'S STYLE

Time is accounted for in a precise manner.

He responded to the needs of a new middle-class public:- novels centre on a single hero; - use of first-person narrative; adventurous style.

Places are described in detail.

Defoe considered himself a “professional writer”.

“I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be.”

Robinson Crusoe (1719) was Defoe’s first novel and it has considered the first English novel. It is based on true accounts of castaways and it is the celebration of the English mercantile hero. It won immediate success. By 1895,: 115 revisions, 277 imitations, 110 translations, 196 English editions.

PLOT

The young Robinson Crusoe rebels against his middle-class family’s middle-class values. Against his father’s wishes he goes to sea, becoming a “Sailor and a Merchant”. After a series of adventurous journeys, he becomes a rich plantation owner in Brazil. He leaves for West Africa to purchase slaves but He is shipwrecked on an island where he lives alone for 28 years. - He reconstructs civilization on the island. - He converts the heathen ‘Friday’ to Christianity. Robinson finally returns to England and learns that his plantation has made him rich (the individual as creator of his own destiny).

ROBINSON CRUSOE

• Rebels against his family and middle-class values;
• Punished by 28-year isolation on a desert island;

• Learns to appreciate the values of the society he has abandoned;
• Becomes the symbol of the ‘economic man’.
• Reconstructs civilisation on the island.

FRIDAY

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• A 26 year-old Caribbean native and cannibal.
• Friday becomes Crusoe's slave after Crusoe saves his life when Friday is about to be eaten by other cannibals.
• Friday's servitude has become a symbol of imperialist oppression throughout the modern world.
• Friday's overall feelings works against the emotional deadness that many readers find in Crusoe.

ROBINSON CRUSOE

• Adventurous man who refuses his father advice to practise law and stay at home to enjoy the middle class life. Instead he becomes a sailor and experiences adventures
• He is not a classic hero, his qualities are Persistence, Courage and Innovativeness:

- He survives storm and isolation - He strives for survival - He learns all the craftsmanship - He continues his dream: Life on the sea - He rescues the captives

• He makes Friday is servant and teaches him to call him Master

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FRIDAY

• Crusoe's willing servant ready to do whatever Crusoe says.

- He converts to Protestantism - He learns English language and culture

• Friday is Intelligent, Brave and a Loyal Servant
• Friday diaplays strong emotions:

- He hugs and cries when he finds his father, - He's ready to sacrifice his life for his master

TEAMWORK

TEAM 4

- XANDER - SAGER - RIVAS - NAGY

TEAM 2

- COPPIANO - TRESOLDI - ROMEO

- CRUZ- KOTIT - CORTEZ

TEAM 1

TEAM 3

- LOTFI - MINA - MONA - PEREZ

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