Robinson Crusoe Themes

Robinson Crusoe and highlights of the 18th Century.

Robinson Crusoe is a novel written by the English writer Daniel Defoe and it first published on 25 April 1719. The story talks about a young impulsive Englishman who opposes his parents ' wish to become a lawyer and chooses to go to the seas to seeking an adventure, after that his shipwrecked and castaway on a remote tropical island for 28 years. The novel reflects and emphasizes many elements and themes form the 18th century or "Age of Enlightenment", which Defoe made the main character 's actions and way of thinking as a representation of these elements and ideas that shown throughout the story. The age of enlightenment is also known as the age of reason, the enlightenment included a

Due that, we can sense many ideas in elements of that age appeared in the novel in a straightforward or symbolic. The ideas of enlightenment such as individualism and human nature, we saw how Crusoe loved the idea of being alone and how he wanted to be free in making his decisions. For slavery, we got to know the importance of this kind of trade and why people of that century were depending on it. Finally, capitalism as one of Crusoe 's characteristic and how he care about it. All these themes were the center of the novel and were represented throughout a single character, which is Robinson Crusoe. You can also see how Defoe succeed in showing us the struggle of the main character form the begging when Crusoe opposed his parents and made a decision to go to the sea and seek and adventure and find his freedom, Until he fell into the island and his struggle to survive for twenty eight years. In my opinion, this story had many grate aspects and the presentation of the main character and his fighting against the riskiness to survive his life in a middle of a mysteries and dangerous place was amazing, despite the idea of the slavery, which is one of the worst crimes that human, committed in the past