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1、L/O/G/ODaniel DefoeRobinson CrusoeBy Group Authors lifeWritings Novel Robinson CrusoeHero Robinson CAuthorDaniel Defoe (16591661? 1731.4.24）in here Click to add title in here Original name-Daniel Foearistocratic-sounding De descent De Beau Faux., date & placeat least 198 pen namesEnglish writer,

2、 journalist, pamphleteerenduring fame Robinson Crusoe. notable, earliest proponents of novel popularize the form in Britain, referred founder of the English novelprolific, versatilefive hundred books, pamphlets, journals topics: politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology, supernaturala pioneer

3、of economic Early life Click to add title in here Click to add title in here father -James Foe member of the Butchers Company, tallow chandlerexperienced the most unusual occurrences in English history:The Great Plague of LondonThe Great Fire of LondonA Dutch fleet sailed up the Medwayvia the River

4、Thames attacked ChathamChristian entered world of business, general merchant, deal different times in hosiery(針織品), woolen goods, wine. rarely out of debt -difficult 1684, married Mary Tuffley, dowry -3,700eight children, six survived. Early life1692 arrested for payments of 700, total debts -17,000

5、evidence that financial dealings not always honest. Release travelled Europe & Scotland traded wine to Cadiz, Porto, Lisbon1695 back in England, using Defoe“serving as a commissioner of the glass dutycollecting the tax on Writings Click to add title in here 1697 first notable publication -An Ess

6、ay upon Projects, most successful poem, The True-Born Englishman ，Legions Memorial Pamphlet：The Shortest-Way with the DissentersPoem： Hymn to the PilloryPeriodical：A Review of the Affairs of France LaterRobinson Crusoe （1719） Appeal to Honour and Justice (1715)The Family Instructor (1715) Minutes of

7、 the Negotiations of Monsr.Mesnager (1717)A Continuation of the Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy (1718)EMemorial to Daniel De-Foe” Religious Courtship (1722),The Complete English Tradesman (1726) The New Family Instructor (1727). The Great Law of Subordination Considered (1724) Everybodys Business is N

8、obodys Business (1725) The Political History of the Devil (1726), A System of Magick (1726) An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions (1727）A General History of Discoveries and Improvements (1727) Atlas Maritimus and Commercialis (1728）A tour thro the Whole Island of Great Britain (172427)R

9、obinson Crusoe Click to add title in here Click to add title in here Click to add title in here The book is a fictional autobiography of the title charactera castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela, encountering Native Americans, captives and mutineers before being re

10、scued. Sources 1.The story was perhaps influenced by Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on the Pacific island2. It is also likely that Defoe was inspired by the Latin or English translations of Ibn Tufails Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, an earlier novel also set on a desert island3.

11、Another source for Defoes novel may have been Robert Knoxs account of his abduction by the King of Ceylon in 1659 in An Historical Account of the Island Ceylon, Plot summaryClick to add title in here Click to add title in here Crusoe sets sail from the Queens Dock in Hull on a sea voyage in August 1

12、651, against the wishes of his parents, who want him to stay at home and pursue a career, possibly in law. After a tumultuous journey that sees his ship wrecked in a storm, his lust for the sea remains so strong that he sets out to sea again. This journey too ends in disaster as the ship is taken ov

13、er by Sal pirates and Crusoe becomes the slave of a MRobinson Crusoe Click to add title in here Click to add title in here Click to add title in here After two years of slavery, he manages to escape. Later, Crusoe is rescued and befriended by the Captain of a Portuguese ship with whose help Crusoe b

14、ecomes owner of a plantation in Brazil. Years later, he joins an expedition to bring slaves from Africa but he is shipwrecked in a storm about forty miles out to sea on an island - the Island of Despair near the mouth of the Orinoco river on September 30, 1659. His companions all die, save himself,

15、and three animals-the captains dog and two cats. Robinson Crusoe Click to add title in here Click to add title in here Click to add title in here Years later, Crusoe save a prisoner, naming his new companion Friday after the day of the week he appeared. Crusoe then teaches him English and converts h

16、im to Christianity. After another party of natives arrives they manage to kill most of the natives and save two of the prisoners-Fridays father and the other-a SpaniardTo be continued Robinson Crusoe Real hero, everything needed a successful man, excellent creativity, great working capacity, courage, and persistence in overcoming obstacles. not a perfect man coward - the first storm sw