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Robinson Crusoe
1719, Themes - Coggle Diagram
Robinson Crusoe
1719
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Plot.
Robinson leaves his family when he was 19 and goes to sea to make his future, he lands to Brazil and during a trip he shipwrecked on a remote island where he spends 28 years where he lives with cannibalism and makes him a best friend named Friday. he make a diary of his experiences on the island. after 28 years Robinson returns to England, where he learns that is plantation in Brazil made him rich.
Characters
the middle class, the puritans
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Themes
Individualism: the society that he created on the island is similar at he english society; thanks to the 18th principles he can use his ideals of mobility, material productiveness and individualism. Robinson has a pragmatic and individualism outlook, he applies a rational method to every situation.
Robinson believe a lot in God, and thanks to him he can face up the permanence in the island. for God the individual can shape his destiny though action
The island (microcosmos)
is the ideal place to prove Robinson qualities and he deserved to be saved by God. on the island Robinson organises a primitive empire; stay on the island led him to returned into a natural and primitive state, but was a chance to approach with the nature.
New class: middle class. human happiness, not exposed to the miseries, but not living with the luxury. Robinson has in common with the heroes of travel literature the search of is own identity in alternative to the model provided by his father.
Colonialism: on the island Robinson returns in the states that he english coloniser was in the period of colonialism
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