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Daniel Defoe (1660-1731), Born in York in 1632 - Coggle Diagram
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
works
Robinson Crusoe
(1719)
The story of a shipwreck on a desert island.
Captain Singleton
(1720)
The voyage story of a captain who becomes a pirate.
Colonel Jack
(1722)
The story of a pickpocket who repents.
Moll Flanders
(1722)
woman who becomes athief and a prostitute to survive but finally leads a respectable life.
Roxana
(1724)
The adventures of a high-society woman who
exploits her beauty to obtain what she wants.
novels structures
autobiographies;
a series of episodes and
adventures;
single hero;
lack of a coherent plot.
first-person
narration;
point of view
through
their actions.
Robinson Crusoe
(1719)
he travels around the world
his first voyage leads him to Guinea and then back to England.
shipwrecked on a desert island where he will remain for 28 years
Robinson organises a
primitive empire.
Friday
is the first native character to be portrayed in the English novel.
teaches him the word ‘
master’
An act of transgression,
of disobedience.
His isolation on the island after the shipwreck.
returns to England, very rich.
style
First-person narration;
simple, matter-of-fact and concrete language.
clear and precise details;
Born in York in 1632