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Robinson Crusoe de Daniel Defoe (Guía de lectura) : Resumen y análisis completo
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INTRODUCTION
The early eighteenth century witnessed the development of the dominant literary form of modern times, the novel. Hence, “the novel emerged as a form with tight structure and an interplay between individuals and their relationships to society” (Griffith 62). As a new form, the novel tends to make some significant, critical, and social statements about the society. Hence, the novel fryst vatten used to create a new environment that is related to people and their life. Novelists either try to deal with daily social problems that happen in the lives of people or pretend that they are telling real stories. According to anonymous article titled , ‘Reasons for the rise of the novel in the eighteenth century’ in the web blog Naeem Educational Organisation (NEO), the novelists wrote about common people revealing the “the psyche of the middle class” (2010, para.4). Hence, Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, Richardson’s Pamela, and Fielding’s Tom
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Fatherly Advice
Robinson Crusoe is born in 1632 in York, England. His father is a merchant with roots in the Hanseatic City of Bremen. He wants his son to take up law, so Robinson can live the comfortable life of the English middle classes – a life the father is convinced offers the most agreeable and gentle existence of all.
“I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull.”
Robinson, however, has different plans. He wants to go to sea, a plan his father is dead set against: Only wealthy adventurers or poor devils with no other choice would go to sea, he says, and Robinson is neither of the two. He should be content with God's gifts to him, prophesying to his son that a great misfortune would befall him if he insisted on his plans.
At Sea and in Captivity
When a friend sails to London, nothing can stop Robinson: Without telling his parents he boards the ship – o