Theme Of Realism In Robinson Crusoe

Realism is intended to give the full and true picture of life at any given moment in place and history. It reflects the life of the common reader. To achieve this, the author writes a story through the view point of one or more protagonists who are living ordinary lives, might find life a tad dull or unhappy and may under special circumstances display heroic aspects. Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe is argued to be the very first novel. It is about a man who is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island for a number of years, and eventually is able to find his way back one. Though Defoe’s protagonist Crusoe experiences extraordinary events throughout the novel and can be called a hero for rescuing a savage and more stranded men and returning them to civilization, it is defined as a realistic novel. The realistic elements of Robinson Crusoe can be seen in his characters and their actions, his style of writing, the setting of the novel and his

In Robinson Crusoe Defoe’s style of writing is a major aspect that helps to authenticate his writing in the realistic category. Defoe produces this impression of complete authenticity in his writing style through his use of first person narration and details. When the novel first came out it was published under the title of The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver’d by Pyrates…Written by Himself by Daniel Defoe. The fact alone that Defoe gave the novel this tittle, along with