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Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe 1719 1st edition.jpg

Title page from the first edition
Writer Daniel Defoe
Original title The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Xx Years, all solitary in an un-inhabited Isle on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Nifty River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished merely himself. With An Business relationship how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself.
Country Great Britain
Language English
Genre Adventure, historical fiction
Publisher William Taylor

Publication engagement

 25 April 1719 (302 years ago)  (1719-04-25)
Followed by The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe [a] () is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its writer, leading many readers to believe he was a existent person and the volume a travelogue of true incidents.[ii]

Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is presented as an autobiography of the title graphic symbol (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer) – a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island virtually the coasts of Venezuela and Trinidad (roughly resembling Tobago[3] [4]), encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, earlier ultimately being rescued. The story has been idea to be based on the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on a Pacific island called "Más a Tierra" (at present part of Chile) which was renamed Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966.[5] : 23–24

Despite its simple narrative fashion, Robinson Crusoe was well received in the literary world and is oft credited as mark the offset of realistic fiction every bit a literary genre. It is generally seen equally a contender for the starting time English novel.[6] Before the finish of 1719, the book had already run through 4 editions, and it has gone on to become one of the most widely published books in history, spawning so many imitations, not only in literature merely also in film, television, and radio, that its proper name is used to define a genre, the Robinsonade.

Plot summary [edit]

Pictorial map of Crusoe's island, the "Island of Despair", showing incidents from the book

Robinson Crusoe (the family unit name corrupted from the German language name "Kreutznaer") sets sail from Kingston upon Hull on a bounding main voyage in August 1651, against the wishes of his parents, who wanted him to pursue a career in law. Afterward a tumultuous journeying where his ship is wrecked in a storm, his want for the sea remains so strong that he sets out to sea again. This journeying, too, ends in disaster, as the ship is taken over by Salé pirates (the Salé Rovers) and Crusoe is enslaved by a Moor. Two years later, he escapes in a boat with a male child named Xury; a captain of a Portuguese ship off the w declension of Africa rescues him. The transport is en route to Brazil. Crusoe sells Xury to the captain. With the helm's aid, Crusoe procures a plantation.

Years afterward, Crusoe joins an expedition to kidnap and enslave people from Africa, but he is shipwrecked in a storm about xl miles out to sea on an island near the Venezuelan coast (which he calls the Island of Despair) most the oral fissure of the Orinoco river on 30 September 1659.[one] : Chapter 23 He observes the latitude as 9 degrees and 22 minutes north. He sees penguins and seals on his island. As for his inflow in that location, simply he and three animals, the helm's dog and two cats, survive the shipwreck. Overcoming his despair, he fetches arms, tools and other supplies from the ship earlier it breaks apart and sinks. He builds a fenced-in habitat near a cave which he excavates. By making marks in a wooden cross, he creates a agenda. By using tools salvaged from the transport, and some which he makes himself, he hunts, grows barley and rice, dries grapes to make raisins, learns to make pottery and raises goats. He also adopts a small parrot. He reads the Bible and becomes religious, thanking God for his fate in which nothing is missing but human order.

More than years pass and Crusoe discovers cannibals, who occasionally visit the island to impale and swallow prisoners. At first he plans to kill them for committing an abomination simply after realizes he has no right to do so, every bit the cannibals do not knowingly commit a criminal offence. He dreams of obtaining one or two servants past freeing some prisoners; when a prisoner escapes, Crusoe helps him, naming his new companion "Friday" after the day of the week he appeared. Crusoe then teaches him English and converts him to Christianity.

After more cannibals arrive to partake in a feast, Crusoe and Friday kill most of them and save two prisoners. 1 is Fri's father and the other is a Spaniard, who informs Crusoe most other Spaniards shipwrecked on the mainland. A plan is devised wherein the Spaniard would return to the mainland with Friday's father and bring back the others, build a send, and canvas to a Castilian port.

Before the Spaniards return, an English transport appears; mutineers accept commandeered the vessel and intend to maroon their captain on the isle. Crusoe and the ship's captain strike a deal in which Crusoe helps the captain and the loyal sailors retake the send. With their ringleader executed past the captain, the mutineers take upwards Crusoe'south offer to be marooned on the island rather than existence returned to England as prisoners to be hanged. Before embarking for England, Crusoe shows the mutineers how he survived on the island and states that there volition be more men coming.

The road taken by Robinson Crusoe over the Pyrenees mountains in chapters xix & xx of Defoe's novel, every bit envisaged past Joseph Ribas

Crusoe leaves the island 19 December 1686 and arrives in England on 11 June 1687. He learns that his family unit believed him dead; as a result, he was left zero in his father's volition. Crusoe departs for Lisbon to reclaim the profits of his estate in Brazil, which has granted him much wealth. In determination, he transports his wealth overland to England from Portugal to avoid traveling by ocean. Friday accompanies him and, en route, they endure one last chance together as they fight off famished wolves while crossing the Pyrenees.[seven]

Characters [edit]

  • Robinson Crusoe: The narrator of the novel who gets shipwrecked.
  • Friday: A Caribbean tribesman who Crusoe saves from cannibalism, and later on named "Friday." He becomes a retainer and friend to Crusoe.
  • Xury: Retainer to Crusoe after they escape slavery from the Captain of the Rover together. He is later given to the Portuguese Ocean Helm as an indentured retainer.
  • The Widow: Friend to Crusoe who looks over his assets while he is away.
  • Portuguese Bounding main Captain: Rescues Crusoe after he escapes from slavery. Later helps him with his money and plantation.
  • The Spaniard: A homo rescued past Crusoe who later helps him escape the isle.
  • Robinson Crusoe'due south male parent: A merchant named Kreutznaer.
  • Captain of the Rover: Moorish pirate of Sallee who captures and enslaves Crusoe.
  • Traitorous crew members: members of a mutinied ship who appear towards the finish of novel
  • The Savages: Cannibals that come to Crusoe's Island and who represent a threat to Crusoe's religious and moral convictions as well every bit his ain safety.

Religion [edit]

Robinson Crusoe was published in 1719 during the Enlightenment period of the 18th century. In the novel, Crusoe sheds calorie-free on different aspects of Christianity and his beliefs. The book can exist considered a spiritual autobiography as Crusoe's views on religion modify dramatically from the start of his story to the end.

In the commencement of the book, Crusoe is concerned with sailing away from home, whereupon he meets violent storms at sea. He promises to God that, if he survived that storm, he would be a dutiful Christian man and head home according to his parents' wishes. However, when Crusoe survives the storm he decides to keep sailing and notes that he could not fulfil the promises he had made during his turmoil.[1] : half dozen

After Robinson is shipwrecked on his isle, he begins to suffer from farthermost isolation. He turns to his animals to talk to, such as his parrot, but misses man contact. He turns to God during his time of turmoil in search of solace and guidance. He retrieves a Bible from a ship that was washed forth the shore and begins to memorize verses. In times of trouble, he would open the Bible to a random page where he would read a verse that he believed God had fabricated him open up and read, and that would ease his mind. Therefore, during the fourth dimension in which Crusoe was shipwrecked he became very religious and oftentimes would turn to God for assist.

When Crusoe meets his servant Fri, he begins to teach him scripture and about Christianity. He tries to teach Friday to the best of his power about God and what Heaven and Hell are. His purpose is to convert Friday into beingness a Christian and to his values and beliefs. "During the long time that Friday has at present been with me, and that he began to speak to me, and understand me, I was not wanting to lay a foundation of religious cognition in his heed; particularly I ask'd him once who made him?"[1] : 158

Lynne W. Hinojosa has argued that throughout the novel Crusoe interprets scripture in a way that "[s]cripture never has ramifications beyond his ain needs and situations" (651). For Hinojosa, Crusoe places a biblical narrative inside himself unlike earlier interpretations of scripture in which the private was subsumed past the biblical narrative. For this reason, Hinojosa contends that "Crusoe displays no desire… to behave out the mission of the church building or to be reunited with order in society to participate in God's plan for man history" (652).[8]

Crusoe and his animals [edit]

"Every animal, Edwards learned, had its own peculiarities and presented different problems."[9] The character Robinson Crusoe has many animals that he domesticates. These species all serve different purposes for his survival on the deserted island. Crusoe acquires parrots, sheep, a canis familiaris, and cats along his extended stay. Whether or not that he had familial relationships with his pet dog or parrot are upwardly for debate (although the diaries of the Crusoe archetype, Alexander Selkirk, state that he used his island'southward goats for sexual gratification). Most animals that he interacted with were to deliberately serve a purpose. The goat herd that he gathers provide meat, the domestic dog and cat are companions.

"In this essay, I brainstorm past turning to a trouble familiar to scholars of Robinson Crusoe and especially to environmentalists and animal studies scholars: the role of animals in isle ecologies. Crusoe'due south dog—his "pleasant and loving companion" of sixteen years—has long drawn the attention of critics, as accept his rapidly multiplying, verminous cats."[10] Cole goes over this issue in her article publication. In the 1997 movie adaption of Robinson Crusoe, the dialog betwixt Friday and Crusoe mourning his dog Skipper shows the view that the primary character had on creature'due south souls. "Friday: Skipper go to Crusoe's God? Robinson Crusoe: No. Dogs don't have mortal souls. Only men accept mortal souls. Friday: Too bad. Skillful dog."[11] This belief that animals do not become to heaven evidence that the views of pets during this time menses are not the aforementioned towards human relationships. Moral and ethical dilemmas that deal with animals and survival are a prevalent topic within the novel and pic adaptation.

People idea of animals differently dorsum in the eighteenth century and the moral expectations towards them were as well very different. George Poulet compared books and animals in his excerpt Phenomenology of Reading "Books are objects. On a table, on bookshelves, in store windows, they wait for someone to come up and evangelize them from their materiality, from their immobility. When I see them on brandish, I look at them equally I would animals for sale, kept in little cages, and then evidently hoping for a buyer. For - in that location is no doubting it - animals exercise know that their fate depends on a man intervention, thanks to which they will be delivered from the shame of existence treated as objects."[12] Robinson Crusoe was also in a very precarious situation and needed to do drastic things in order to survive. Therefore, the combination of his ingrained morals and his precarious situation may have led to his decisions of his handling towards the domestic animals plant on the island and those that he took with him.

One event that targets fauna cruelty in the book is his extermination of cats that traveled and survived the crash with him on the island.

"In this season I was much surprised with the increase of my family; I had been concerned for the loss of one of my cats, who ran abroad from me, or, as I idea, had been expressionless, and I heard no more tidings of her till, to my astonishment, she came domicile about the end of August with three kittens. This was the more than strange to me because, though I had killed a wild true cat, as I called it, with my gun, yet I thought it was quite a different kind from our European cats; but the young cats were the same kind of house-breed as the sometime one; and both my cats existence females, I thought it very strange. But from these 3 cats I afterwards came to be so pestered with cats that I was forced to kill them like vermin or wild beasts, and to drive them from my house equally much every bit possible."[thirteen]

His surplus killing of cats is simply considering they rely on him even so he cannot provide sustenance for them. They become an invasive species to his modest area. Animals are a big staple presence throughout the serial so it is important to understand how they contribute to the story.

Sources and real-life castaways [edit]

Volume on Alexander Selkirk

There were many stories of real-life castaways in Defoe'south time. Most famously, Defoe's suspected inspiration for Robinson Crusoe is thought to be Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk, who spent 4 years on the uninhabited island of Más a Tierra (renamed Robinson Crusoe Isle in 1966)[5] : 23–24 in the Juan Fernández Islands off the Chilean declension. Selkirk was rescued in 1709 by Woodes Rogers during an English expedition that led to the publication of Selkirk's adventures in both A Voyage to the South Sea, and Round the World and A Cruising Voyage Around the Globe in 1712. According to Tim Severin, "Daniel Defoe, a secretive human, neither confirmed or denied that Selkirk was the model for the hero of his book. Apparently written in half dozen months or less, Robinson Crusoe was a publishing miracle."[14]

The author of Crusoe's Island, Andrew Lambert states, "the ideas that a single, real Crusoe is a 'false premise' because Crusoe'due south story is a complex compound of all the other buccaneer survival stories."[15] :  not cited [ full citation needed ] However, Robinson Crusoe is far from a copy of Rogers' account: Becky Little argues three events that distinguish the ii stories:

  1. Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked while Selkirk decided to exit his ship thus marooning himself;
  2. The island Crusoe was shipwrecked on had already been inhabited, different the solitary nature of Selkirk's adventures.
  3. The last and most crucial divergence between the two stories is Selkirk was a privateer, annexation and raiding coastal cities during the War of Spanish Succession.

"The economic and dynamic thrust of the volume is completely alien to what the buccaneers are doing," Lambert says. "The buccaneers but want to capture some loot and come domicile and drinkable it all, and Crusoe isn't doing that at all. He's an economic imperialist: He's creating a world of trade and turn a profit."[fifteen] :  non cited [ total commendation needed ]

Other possible sources for the narrative include Ibn Tufail's Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, and Spanish sixteenth-century sailor Pedro Serrano. Ibn Tufail's Hayy ibn Yaqdhan is a 12th-century philosophical novel also attack a desert isle, and translated from Arabic into Latin and English a number of times in the half-century preceding Defoe's novel.[16] [17] [xviii] [19]

Pedro Luis Serrano was a Spanish sailor who was marooned for 7 or eight years on a small desert isle after shipwrecking in the 1520s on a small island in the Caribbean off the coast of Nicaragua. He had no admission to fresh water and lived off the blood and flesh of sea turtles and birds. He was quite a celebrity when he returned to Europe; before passing away, he recorded the hardships suffered in documents that show the countless anguish and suffering, the product of absolute abandonment to his fate, now held in the General Archive of the Indies, in Seville. It is very likely that Defoe heard his story in 1 of his visits to Spain before condign a writer; by then the tale was 200 years old, but however very pop.

Yet another source for Defoe'south novel may have been the Robert Knox account of his abduction by the King of Ceylon Rajasinha Two of Kandy in 1659 in An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon.[twenty] [21]

Severin (2002)[v] unravels a much wider, and more than plausible range of potential sources of inspiration, and concludes by identifying castaway surgeon Henry Pitman every bit the most likely:

An employee of the Knuckles of Monmouth, Pitman played a role in the Monmouth Rebellion. His short book about his desperate escape from a Caribbean area penal colony, followed past his shipwrecking and subsequent desert island misadventures, was published past John Taylor of Paternoster Row, London, whose son William Taylor later published Defoe's novel.

Severin argues that since Pitman appears to have lived in the lodgings above the father's publishing business firm and that Defoe himself was a mercer in the area at the time, Defoe may have met Pitman in person and learned of his experiences first-hand, or possibly through submission of a typhoon.[5] Severin likewise discusses another publicized case of a marooned man named only equally Will, of the Miskito people of Fundamental America, who may have led to the depiction of Friday.[22]

Secord (1963)[23] analyses the composition of Robinson Crusoe and gives a list of possible sources of the story, rejecting the common theory that the story of Selkirk is Defoe'due south only source.

Reception and sequels [edit]

The book was published on 25 Apr 1719. Before the end of the year, this first volume had run through four editions.

By the stop of the nineteenth century, no book in the history of Western literature had more editions, spin-offs, and translations (even into languages such as Inuktitut, Coptic, and Maltese) than Robinson Crusoe, with more than 700 such culling versions, including children's versions with pictures and no text.[24]

The term "Robinsonade" was coined to describe the genre of stories similar to Robinson Crusoe.

Defoe went on to write a lesser-known sequel, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719). It was intended to be the last part of his stories, according to the original title page of the sequel'south first edition, but a third book was published (1720) Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: With his Vision of the Angelick Globe.

Interpretations of the novel [edit]

Crusoe continuing over Friday after he frees him from the cannibals

"He is the true prototype of the British colonist. ... The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual aloofness, the calculating taciturnity."

Irish gaelic novelist James Joyce[25]

The novel has been subject area to numerous analyses and interpretations since its publication. In a sense, Crusoe attempts to replicate his club on the island. This is accomplished through the use of European technology, agriculture and even a rudimentary political hierarchy. Several times in the novel Crusoe refers to himself equally the "king" of the isle, whilst the captain describes him as the "governor" to the mutineers. At the very terminate of the novel the island is referred to as a "colony". The idealized master-retainer relationship Defoe depicts between Crusoe and Friday can also be seen in terms of cultural assimilation, with Crusoe representing the "enlightened" European whilst Friday is the "fell" who can only be redeemed from his cultural manners through assimilation into Crusoe's culture. Nonetheless, Defoe used Fri to criticize the Castilian colonization of the Americas.[26]

According to J.P. Hunter, Robinson is not a hero but an lowest. He begins as a wanderer, aimless on a sea he does not empathise, and ends as a pilgrim, crossing a terminal mountain to enter the promised country. The book tells the story of how Robinson becomes closer to God, not through listening to sermons in a church but through spending time lone amidst nature with but a Bible to read.

Conversely, cultural critic and literary scholar Michael Gurnow views the novel from a Rousseauian perspective: The central character'south motility from a archaic country to a more civilized one is interpreted as Crusoe's denial of humanity's state of nature.[27]

Robinson Crusoe is filled with religious aspects. Defoe was a Puritan moralist and ordinarily worked in the guide tradition, writing books on how to be a good Puritan Christian, such as The New Family Instructor (1727) and Religious Courtship (1722). While Robinson Crusoe is far more than a guide, it shares many of the themes and theological and moral points of view.

"Crusoe" may have been taken from Timothy Cruso, a classmate of Defoe's who had written guide books, including God the Guide of Youth (1695), before dying at an early age – just eight years earlier Defoe wrote Robinson Crusoe. Cruso would have been remembered by contemporaries and the association with guide books is clear. It has even been speculated that God the Guide of Youth inspired Robinson Crusoe because of a number of passages in that work that are closely tied to the novel.[28] A leitmotif of the novel is the Christian notion of providence, penitence, and redemption.[29] Crusoe comes to repent of the follies of his youth. Defoe also foregrounds this theme by arranging highly significant events in the novel to occur on Crusoe's birthday. The denouement culminates not just in Crusoe's deliverance from the island, but his spiritual deliverance, his acceptance of Christian doctrine, and in his intuition of his own conservancy.

When confronted with the cannibals, Crusoe wrestles with the trouble of cultural relativism. Despite his disgust, he feels unjustified in holding the natives morally responsible for a practice and so deeply ingrained in their culture. Nevertheless, he retains his belief in an accented standard of morality; he regards cannibalism as a "national crime" and forbids Friday from practising it.

In classical, neoclassical and Austrian economics, Crusoe is regularly used to illustrate the theory of product and choice in the absence of trade, coin, and prices.[thirty] Crusoe must allocate endeavour between product and leisure and must choose between culling product possibilities to meet his needs. The arrival of Friday is and then used to illustrate the possibility of merchandise and the gains that result.

One mean solar day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the impress of a man'south naked human foot on the shore, which was very manifestly to exist seen on the sand.

Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, 1719

The work has been variously read as an allegory for the development of culture; as a manifesto of economic individualism; and every bit an expression of European colonial desires. Significantly, it too shows the importance of repentance and illustrates the forcefulness of Defoe's religious convictions. Critic Yard.East. Novak supports the connection between the religious and economic themes inside Robinson Crusoe, citing Defoe'southward religious ideology equally the influence for his portrayal of Crusoe'due south economic ethics, and his support of the individual. Novak cites Ian Watt's extensive research[31] which explores the bear upon that several Romantic Era novels had against economical individualism, and the reversal of those ideals that takes place within Robinson Crusoe.[32]

In Tess Lewis's review, "The heroes we deserve", of Ian Watt's commodity, she furthers Watt'due south argument with a evolution on Defoe's intention as an author, "to use individualism to signify nonconformity in religion and the admirable qualities of self-reliance".[33] : 678 This further supports the belief that Defoe used aspects of spiritual autobiography to introduce the benefits of individualism to a not entirely convinced religious community.[33] J. Paul Hunter has written extensively on the field of study of Robinson Crusoe equally apparent spiritual autobiography, tracing the influence of Defoe's Puritan ideology through Crusoe's narrative, and his acknowledgement of human imperfection in pursuit of meaningful spiritual engagements – the bicycle of "repentance [and] deliverance."[34]

This spiritual design and its episodic nature, likewise as the re-discovery of earlier female novelists, have kept Robinson Crusoe from beingness classified equally a novel, let lonely the first novel written in English – despite the blurbs on some book covers. Early critics, such every bit Robert Louis Stevenson, admired it, saying that the footprint scene in Crusoe was 1 of the iv greatest in English language literature and almost unforgettable; more prosaically, Wesley Vernon has seen the origins of forensic podiatry in this episode.[35] It has inspired a new genre, the Robinsonade, as works such as Johann David Wyss' The Swiss Family Robinson (1812) adapt its premise and has provoked modern postcolonial responses, including J. M. Coetzee's Foe (1986) and Michel Tournier'south Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique (in English, Fri, or, The Other Island) (1967). Two sequels followed: Defoe'due south The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719) and his Serious reflections during the life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe: with his Vision of the angelick globe (1720). Jonathan Swift's Gulliver'southward Travels (1726) is in part a parody of Defoe's adventure novel.

Legacy [edit]

Influence on language [edit]

The volume proved then popular that the names of the two main protagonists have entered the language. During World War Ii, people who decided to stay and hide in the ruins of the German-occupied city of Warsaw for a menstruum of 3 winter months, from Oct to January 1945, when they were rescued by the Blood-red Regular army, were afterwards called Robinson Crusoes of Warsaw (Robinsonowie warszawscy).[36] Robinson Crusoe usually referred to his retainer every bit "my man Fri", from which the term "Human being Friday" (or "Girl Friday") originated.

Influence on literature [edit]

Robinson Crusoe marked the starting time of realistic fiction as a literary genre.[37] Its success led to many imitators, and castaway novels, written by Ambrose Evans, Penelope Aubin, and others, became quite popular in Europe in the 18th and early 19th centuries.[38] Most of these accept fallen into obscurity, simply some became established, including The Swiss Family Robinson, which borrowed Crusoe's first name for its title.

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver'due south Travels, published vii years later on Robinson Crusoe, may be read equally a systematic rebuttal of Defoe's optimistic account of man adequacy. In The Unthinkable Swift: The Spontaneous Philosophy of a Church of England Homo, Warren Montag argues that Swift was concerned about refuting the notion that the individual precedes society, as Defoe'south novel seems to propose. In Treasure Isle, author Robert Louis Stevenson parodies Crusoe with the character of Ben Gunn, a friendly castaway who was marooned for many years, has a wild advent, dresses entirely in caprine animal skin, and constantly talks well-nigh providence.

In Jean-Jacques Rousseau's treatise on education, Emile, or on Teaching, the one volume the protagonist is immune to read earlier the age of twelve is Robinson Crusoe. Rousseau wants Emile to place himself as Crusoe so he tin rely upon himself for all of his needs. In Rousseau'southward view, Emile needs to imitate Crusoe's experience, allowing necessity to determine what is to be learned and accomplished. This is i of the main themes of Rousseau's educational model.

In The Tale of Footling Pig Robinson, Beatrix Potter directs the reader to Robinson Crusoe for a detailed clarification of the island (the land of the Bong tree) to which her eponymous hero moves. In Wilkie Collins' most popular novel, The Moonstone, one of the master characters and narrators, Gabriel Betteredge, has faith in all that Robinson Crusoe says and uses the volume for a sort of divination. He considers The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe the finest book always written, reads it over and over again, and considers a man but poorly read if he had happened not to read the book.

French novelist Michel Tournier published Friday, or, The Other Island (French Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique) in 1967. His novel explores themes including civilization versus nature, the psychology of solitude, too as decease and sexuality in a retelling of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe story. Tournier'south Robinson chooses to remain on the island, rejecting civilization when offered the chance to escape 28 years after being shipwrecked. Likewise, in 1963, J. M. G. Le Clézio, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature, published the novel Le Proces-Verbal. The book's epigraph is a quote from Robinson Crusoe, and similar Crusoe, the novel's protagonist Adam Pollo suffers long periods of loneliness.

"Crusoe in England", a 183 line poem by Elizabeth Bishop, imagines Crusoe near the terminate of his life, recalling his time of exile with a mixture of bemusement and regret.

J. G. Ballard's 1974 novel Concrete Isle is a modern rewriting of Robinson Crusoe.

J. One thousand. Coetzee's 1986 novel Foe recounts the tale of Robinson Crusoe from the perspective of a woman named Susan Barton.

In the novel" Concrete Isle" by J.G. Ballard he is able to employ Robinson Crusoe as a sort of inspiration for his ain story near isolation. Although notable Ballard switches out the deserted isle scenario and replaces it with a concrete island beneath a high speed highway. The novel features many of the classic castaway elements as well. Our protagonist Robert becomes unable to exit this concrete island and he eventually discovers that he is not lone.

Andy Weir takes the classic Crusoe tale and gives in a innovative modern twist with him famous novel, The Martian. Andy Weir takes the take a chance to completely alter the deserted isle setting. Instead of Mark Watney being suck on a deserted island he is in fact the first human to get stranded in space. He manages to overcome incredible odds and like Crusoe uses his ingenuity and skills to overcome his daunting situation

In 1954 William Golding came out with his always-famous novel Lord Of The Flies. This is a novel near a group of schoolboys who observe themselves stranded on a deserted island afterward their plane crashes. There are no adults to tell them what to do and quickly the boys are plunged into a world of chaos and terror.

Comics adaptations [edit]

The story was likewise illustrated and published in comic book form by Classics Illustrated in 1943 and 1957. The much improved 1957 version was inked / penciled by Sam Citron, who is near well known for his contributions to the earlier issues of Superman.[39] British illustrator Reginald Ben Davis drew a female version of the story titled Jill Crusoe, Castaway (1950–1959).[40]

Phase adaptations [edit]

A pantomime version of Robinson Crusoe was staged at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1796, with Joseph Grimaldi as Pierrot in the harlequinade. The piece was produced over again in 1798, this time starring Grimaldi as Clown. In 1815, Grimaldi played Friday in another version of Robinson Crusoe.[41]

Jacques Offenbach wrote an opéra comique chosen Robinson Crusoé, which was first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 23 November 1867. This was based on the British pantomime version rather than the novel itself. The libretto was past Eugène Cormon and Hector-Jonathan Crémieux.

In that location have been a number of other stage adaptations, including those by Isaac Pocock, Jim Helsinger and Steve Shaw and a musical by Victor Prince.

Movie adaptations [edit]

In that location is a 1927 silent moving picture titled Robinson Crusoe. The Soviet 3D flick Robinson Crusoe was produced in 1947.

One of the starting time adaptations that we still currently accept access to, is from 1932 titled MR. ROBINSON CRUSOE. This film was produced by Douglas Fairbanks Sr and was directed by Eddie Sutherland. Ready in Tahiti nosotros get to see if Crusoe himself can survive on a desert island for almost a twelvemonth. This pic while not considered a flop was non very successful either.

Luis Buñuel directed Adventures of Robinson Crusoe starring Dan O'Herlihy, released in 1954. Luis Buñuel filmed an account which at first viewing appeared to be a rather simple straightforward telling of Robinson Crusoe. A big stand out with this pic is that Bunuel breaks the previous films' traditions of having Fri as a slave and Crusoe as the master. The two manage to become actually friends and they operate substantially as equals.

Walt Disney after comedicized the novel with Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.North., featuring Dick Van Dyke. In this version, Friday became a cute adult female, just named 'Wed' instead.

ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS, In 1965 we get the movie adaptation Robinson Crusoe on Mars. Byron Haskins manages to underscore Crusoe's removal and field of the red planet that we call mars. Our main grapheme meets a Fri esque character but makes no endeavor to try and empathize his language. Like the book, in this film, Friday is trying to escape from cruel masters. This moving-picture show has lots of entreatment to fans of adventures stories and the film has a distinctive visual way that adds to its character.

Peter O'Toole and Richard Roundtree co-starred in a 1975 film Man Friday which sardonically portrayed Crusoe as incapable of seeing his dark-skinned companion as anything but an junior creature, while Friday is more aware and sympathetic. In 1988, Aidan Quinn portrayed Robinson Crusoe in the film Crusoe. A 1997 movie entitled Robinson Crusoe starred Pierce Brosnan and received express commercial success.

Variations on the theme include the 1954 Miss Robin Crusoe, with a female castaway, played by Amanda Blake, and a female Friday, and the 1964 moving picture Robinson Crusoe on Mars, starring Paul Mantee, with an conflicting Friday portrayed by Victor Lundin and an added graphic symbol played by Adam West. The 2000 pic Cast Away, with Tom Hanks as a FedEx employee stranded on an isle for many years, also borrows much from the Robinson Crusoe story.

In 1981, Czechoslovakian managing director and animator Stanislav Látal made a version of the story under the proper name Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, a Crewman from York combining traditional and stop-motion animation. The movie was coproduced by regional West Frg broadcaster Südwestfunk Baden-Baden.[ citation needed ]

Animated adaptations [edit]

In 1988, an animated drawing for children called Archetype Adventure Stories Robinson Crusoe was released. Crusoe's early bounding main travels are simplified, equally his send outruns the Salé Rovers pirates but and then gets wrecked in a storm.[42]

Television adaptations [edit]

In 1964, a French film production crew made a xiii office serial of The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. It starred Robert Hoffmann. The black and white series was dubbed into English and German. In the Great britain, the BBC broadcast information technology on numerous occasions between 1965 and 1977.

2 2000s reality television series, Expedition Robinson and Survivor, take their contestants endeavour to survive on an isolated location, ordinarily an isle. The concept is influenced past Robinson Crusoe.

Inverted Crusoeism [edit]

The term inverted Crusoeism is coined by J. Yard. Ballard. The paradigm of Robinson Crusoe has been a recurring topic in Ballard'southward work.[43] Whereas the original Robinson Crusoe became a castaway against his own will, Ballard's protagonists frequently cull to maroon themselves; hence inverted Crusoeism (east.g., Concrete Isle). The concept provides a reason every bit to why people would deliberately maroon themselves on a remote island; in Ballard's work, becoming a castaway is as much a healing and empowering process equally an entrapping one, enabling people to discover a more meaningful and vital being.[44]

Musical references [edit]

Musician Dean briefly mentions Crusoe in one of his music videos. In the official music video for Instagram, at that place is a part when viewers hear Dean's distorted vocalisation; "Sometimes, I feel alone ... I experience like I'm Robinson Crusoe ..."

Robinson Crusoe is also mentioned in the song "I'grand a Dog" by Canadian band Crash Examination Dummies.[45] Written from the perspective of a domestic dog puzzling over man philosophy, the song has this stanza:

There's some contend about whether instincts should be held in check
Well, I suppose that I'thou a liberal in this respect
I can't say I liked Robinson Crusoe
Only at least he didn't tie his dogs up at night

Canadian hip-hop grouping, The Rascalz, in their song featuring Barrington Levy and K-Bone, Peak of the World, reference him, saying: "Now, this is a message in the bottle, like Robinson Caruso".

Evelyn Dall sings "Poor Robinson Crusoe" in 1937 lamenting his lack of a partner. https://world wide web.evelyndall.com/evelyn-dall-the-recordings

In the theme song of Sherwood Schwartz's Gilligan's Island, a 60s boob tube bear witness that was near a grouping of castaways on a deserted island, Robinson Crusoe is mentioned in the Lyric "like Robinson Crusoe, it's as primitive as tin can be."

In his song, "Amish Paradise", 'Weird' Al Yankovic mentions Robinson Crusoe in the line "Similar Robinson Crusoe, it'southward as primitive as tin exist' which is itself a reference to the Ballad of Gilligan'south Isle.

Honorable Mentions [edit]

Daniel Defoe's book "Robinson Crusoe" was shown in the 1966 Motion-picture show Fahrenheit 451.

Editions [edit]

  • The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe: of York, mariner: who lived twenty 8 years all lone in an un-inhabited island on the coast of America, near the mouth of the cracking river of Oroonoque; ... Written by himself., Early English Books Online, 1719. Defoe, Daniel (January 2007). "1719 text". Oxford Text Archive. hdl:20.500.12024/K061280.000.
  • Robinson Crusoe, Oneworld Classics 2008. ISBN 978-1-84749-012-4
  • Robinson Crusoe, Penguin Classics 2003. ISBN 978-0-14-143982-ii
  • Robinson Crusoe, Oxford Earth's Classics 2007. ISBN 978-0-xix-283342-vi
  • Robinson Crusoe, Bantam Classics
  • Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe, edited past Michael Shinagel (New York: Norton, 1994), ISBN 978-0393964523. Includes a selection of critical essays.
  • Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe. Dover Publications, 1998.
  • Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Rand McNally & Company. The Windermere Series 1916. No ISBN. Includes vii illustrations by Milo Winter

See also [edit]

From real life [edit]

  • Leendert Hasenbosch
  • Philip Ashton
  • Crusoe Cavern
  • Alexander Selkirk
  • Naso people#History regarding the Térraba or Naso people

From idiot box and films [edit]

  • Cast Away
  • Gilligan's Island
  • Swiss Family Robinson
  • Lost in Space
  • Crusoe
  • Selkirk, the Real Robinson Crusoe
  • Robinson Crusoe (2016 pic)

Novels [edit]

  • Green Grass, Running Water

Stage adaptations [edit]

  • Isaac Pocock (1782–1835)[46]

Footnotes [edit]

  1. ^ Full title: The Life and Foreign Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived 8 and 20 Years, all lonely in an united nations-inhabited Isle on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Swell River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished merely himself. With An Account how he was at last equally strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself. [1]

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Additional references [edit]

  • Boz (Charles Dickens) (1853). Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. London: Chiliad. Routledge & Co.
  • Findlater, Richard (1955). Grimaldi King of Clowns. London: Magibbon & Kee. OCLC 558202542.
  • Malabou, Catherine. "To Quarantine from Quarantine: Rousseau, Robinson Crusoe, and 'I.'" Critical Inquiry, vol. 47, no. S2, 2021, https://doi.org/x.1086/711426.[1]
  • McConnell Stott, Andrew (2009). The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi. Edinburgh: Canongate Books Ltd. ISBN978-ane-84767-761-7.
  • Ross, Angus, ed. (1965), Robinson Crusoe. Penguin.
  • Secord, Arthur Wellesley (1963). Studies in the Narrative Method of Defoe. New York: Russell & Russell. (Offset published in 1924.)
  • Shinagel, Michael, ed. (1994). Robinson Crusoe. Norton Critical Edition. ISBN 0-393-96452-3. Includes textual annotations, contemporary and modern criticisms, bibliography.
  • Severin, Tim (2002). In search of Robinson Crusoe, New York: Bones Books. ISBN 0-465-07698-X
  • Hymer, Stephen (September 1971). "Robinson Crusoe and the clandestine of primitive accumulation". Monthly Review. 23 (4): eleven. doi:ten.14452/MR-023-04-1971-08_2.
  • Shinagel, Michael, ed. (1994), Robinson Crusoe. Norton Critical Edition (ISBN 0-393-96452-3). Past Kogul, Mariapan.

Literary criticism [edit]

  • Backscheider, Paula Daniel Defoe: His Life (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989). ISBN 0801845122.
  • Ewers, Chris Mobility in the English Novel from Defoe to Austen. (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2018). ISBN 978-1787442726. Includes a chapter on Robinson Crusoe.
  • Richetti, John (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe. (Cambridge: Cambridge Academy Press, 2009) ISBN 978-0521675055. Casebook of critical essays.
  • Rogers, Pat Robinson Crusoe (London: Allen and Unwin, 1979). ISBN 0048000027.
  • Watt, Ian The Rise of the Novel (London: Pimlico, 2000). ISBN 978-0712664271.

External links [edit]

  • Robinson Crusoe at Standard Ebooks
  • Robinson Crusoe at Project Gutenberg
  • "Robinson Crusoe". London, UK: William Taylor. 1719. – commented text of the first edition, gratis at Editions Marteau.
  • Robinson Crusoe. artpassions.internet. illustrations by N.C. Wyeth (free eBook ed.). {{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  • Robinson Crusoe public domain audiobook at LibriVox
  • "Robinson Crusoe, told in words of 1 syllable". by Lucy Aikin (aka "Mary Godolphin") (1723–1764).
  • "In-depth comparison between Defoe's novel and the account of the adventures of Henry Pitman".
  • "Chasing Crusoe". Archived from the original on 2006-07-05. – multimedia documentary explores the novel and real life history of Selkirk.
  • "Robinson Crusoe on Literapedia".
  • ""Daniel Defoe'south Robinson Crusoe & the Robinsonades Digital Collection" with over 200 versions of Robinson Crusoe". – openly and freely online with full text and zoomable page images from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature
  • G.A. Wetherell'south Robinson Crusoe silent film, openly and freely bachelor in 3 parts on www.archive.org. Office one; Office 2; Part iii
  • "The BBC Idiot box series from 1965 with music, info, videos and pictures". Archived from the original on 2016-04-12.
  • "Edgar Allan Poe's critical article".
  • "Discussion of a possible connection between Crusoe's island and Cocos Island of Republic of costa rica".
  • "Identification Guide – Robinson Crusoe editions and related books".

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