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Robinson Crusoe Theme Essay

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When Robinson returned to England, he felt like "as perfect a stranger to all the world as if I had never been known there." He found the widow with whom he had left his money, and promised to help her when he had recovered his fortune from the Brazil plantation. He went home, but found that his parents were both dead and his only family members left were two sisters and two nephews. The English captain who Robinson had rescued gave him a reward of nearly 200 pounds.
Robinson's parents and most of his family have died, leaving Robinson alone in one sense, even as he returns to civilization. Robinson's life of isolation on the island has rendered European society strange to him.
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Robinson says that he had "more care upon my head now than I had in my silent state of life in the island," as he didn't know where to keep his money safely. He wanted to go back to Brazil, but was also reluctant to live in a Catholic country. Moreover, he needed to take care of his property in Europe. So, he decided to journey back to England. First, though, he arranged for the captain's widow back in England to be given a substantial amount of money.
All of Robinson's money brings with it worries and cares that he didn't have while he was living simply on the island. While Robinson is happy to have been rescued from the island, it is not clear that society is completely better than his isolated life.
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Robinson says that he had a "strange aversion" to traveling to England by boat, and tells his reader not to "slight the strong impulses of his own thoughts in cases of such moment." He planned to take a long journey through Paris, by land, and then to take a very short voyage across to England. He was joined by several English merchants and several Portuguese merchants, and the group set

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