Topic: The prominent characteristic traits of Robinson Crusoe

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Topic: The prominent characteristic traits of Robinson Crusoe
Introduction
Rationale
Method of the study
Social, historical, literature background
Design of the study:
Introduction
Discussion
Conclusion
DISCUSSION
Background of Daniel Defoe
Summary the context
The prominent characteristic traits of Robinson Crusoe
1. Analyse Robinson’s traits:
-He was the man of labor : industrious, untiring…:
+His perseverance in spending months making a canoe, and in practicing
pottery, making until he gets it right. Additionally, his resourcefulness in
-building a house, goat stable, growing grape arbor….
.“ I made a table and a chair” (p40)
.“Time was taken up in the weighty Affair of making a Cage for my
Pool” (P68)
He learned to make pottery “I made, how many of them fell in, and how
many fell out, the Clay not being stiff enough to bear its own Weight; how
many crack’d by the over violent Heat of the Sun, being set out too hastily;
anh how many fell in pieces with only removing, as well before as after they
were dry’d”(P.73)
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But he never gave up “ tho’ I miscarried so much in my Design for large
Pots, yet I made several smaller things with better success, such as little
round pot, flat Dishes, Pitchers and Pipkins, and any things my hand turn’d

to…”(P.73)
-He was interested in possessions, power, and prestige:
+He first called himseft the king od the island.
+He tought Friday to call him “Master” even before teaching him the
words for”yes” or “no”.
.“surveying it with a secret Kind of Pleasure, (tho’ mixt with my other
afflicting Thoughts) to think that this was all my own, that I was the King
and Lord of all this country indefeasibly, and had a Right of Possession; and
if I could convey it, I minght have it in Inheritance, as completely as any
Lord of Mannor in England” (P.60)
-He was an optimistic person with his lust for life:
+ He never droped out sadness, even when he was ill.
“I had not been s miserable as to be left entirely destitute of all Comfort
and Company..”
.“I began to comfort myself as well as I could, and to set the good against
the Evil that I might have something to distinguish my case from worse, and
I stated it very impartially, like Debtor and Creditor, the comforts I enjoy’d,
against the Miseries I suffer’d..”
So he compared……
.“ I have not Clothes to cover me; But I am in a hot Climate, where if I
had Clothes I could hardly wear them.”
.“ Iam without any Defence or Means to resist any Violence of Man or
Beast; But I am cast on an Island, where I see no wild Beasts to hurt me, as I
saw on the Coast of Africa: And what if I had been Shipwreck’d there?”
.“I have no Soul to speak to, or relieve me; But I God wonderfully sent
the Ship in near enough ot the Shore, that I have gotten out so many
necessary things as will either supply my Wants, or enable me to supply
myself even as long as I live.”(p.38-39)
.“ From this Moment I began to conclude in my Mind, that it was
possible for me to be more happy in this forsaken Solitary Condition, than it

was probable I should wver have been in any other Particular State in the
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World; and with this Thought I was going to give Thanks to God for
bringing me to this Place.” (p.69)
+He managed to make a fortune dispite a 28 years absence and event left
his island with a nice coletion of gold
-he noted on dating events the day he set his foots on this island.
. “ After I had been there about Ten or Twelve Days, it came into my
Thoughts, that I should lose my Reckoning of Time for want of Books and
Pen and Ink, and should even forget the Sabbath Days from the working
Days; but to prevent this I cut it with my Knife upon a large Post, in Capital
Letters, and making it into a great Cross I set it up on the Shore where I first
landed, I came on Shore here on the 30
th
of Sept. 1659.” (para.4,p37)
-Crusoe was a religious man: he prayed before he did any work.:
. “ In the Morning I took the Bible, and beginning a the New Testament, I
began seriously to read it, and impos’d upon myself to read while every
Morning and every Night, not tying my self to the Number of Chapters, but
as long as my Thoughts shou'd engage me: It was not long after I set
seriously to this Work, but I found my Heart more deeply and sincerely
affected with the Wickedness of my past Life: The Impression of my Dream
reviv'd, and the Words, All these Things have not brought thee to Repentance
(para.5.p58)
. “I threw down the Book, and with my Heart as well as my Hands lifted
up to Heaven, in a Kind of Extasy of Joy, I cry'd out aloud, Jesus, thou Son
of David, Jesus, thou exalted Prince and Saviour, give me Repentance!”
. Once Crusoe discovered God, the next step was his attempt to force his
newly-discovered God on Friday
-His emotion life was so poor:

.His diary carried detail account of his deeds but not his thought, his
insistence on dating events made sense to a point, but it ultimately ended up
seeming obsessive and irrelevant when he told us the date on which he
ground his tools but neglected to tell us the date of a very important event
like meeting Friday.

2. Evaluation
.Daniel analysed Robinson’s traits represents for bourgeois class.
.The novel the pointed out the prominent role of religion
.The novel also contained morality.
CONCLUSION
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