ROBINSON CRUSOE by carmen-inglese@libero.it https://padlet.com/carmen_inglese/9695plzjozyq en-us 2017-01-08 16:06:47 UTC 2017-01-12 11:31:36 UTC hello@padlet.com The main character of the novel is Robinson Kreutznaer, in English Crusoe, born in York in 1632 to a german father and an English mother.At the age of 18 he decided to leave his family who prospected him a comfortable life and future in order to travel around the world and make his own fortune. carmen_inglese https://padlet.com/carmen_inglese/9695plzjozyq/wish/145861692 2017-01-08 16:08:28 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_inglese/9695plzjozyq/wish/145861692 His first voyage leads him to Guinea. Then during his second voyage he was captured by pirates but managed to escape and was finally rescued by a Portuguese ship who brought him to Brazil. There he became the owner of a plantation. carmen_inglese https://padlet.com/carmen_inglese/9695plzjozyq/wish/145861817 2017-01-08 16:10:45 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_inglese/9695plzjozyq/wish/145861817 During a journey to Africa ( to get more slaves for his plantation) he is shipwrecked on a desert Island where he will remain for 28 years. carmen_inglese https://padlet.com/carmen_inglese/9695plzjozyq/wish/145861997 2017-01-08 16:13:47 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_inglese/9695plzjozyq/wish/145861997 To mantain an ideal contact to huis motherland , R. writes a diary where he records all his experiences and debates contemporary ideas addressing himself, the reader and even the God. After twelve years he finds a human footprint . There are cannibals. So he decides to attack them : they escape and leave one of their captives who R. calls Friday . carmen_inglese https://padlet.com/carmen_inglese/9695plzjozyq/wish/145862111 2017-01-08 16:15:55 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_inglese/9695plzjozyq/wish/145862111 R. teaches him English, as well as reading the Bible. The novel ends with R.'s return to England and his discovery of his rich plantation. carmen_inglese https://padlet.com/carmen_inglese/9695plzjozyq/wish/145862308 2017-01-08 16:19:31 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_inglese/9695plzjozyq/wish/145862308 R. as the new hero belongs to the middle class which his father considers like " the best state in the world, the most suitable to the human happiness, and not embarassed with the luxury, the pride, ambition and envy of the upper part of mankind". carmen_inglese https://padlet.com/carmen_inglese/9695plzjozyq/wish/145862632 2017-01-08 16:24:15 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_inglese/9695plzjozyq/wish/145862632 What R. has in common with the classical hero? carmen_inglese https://padlet.com/carmen_inglese/9695plzjozyq/wish/145875508 The restlessness, the search for his identity in alternative to the model provided by his father. Actually the story starts with an act of disobedience which  places the character in a situation of separation that will culminate with his isolation on the island after the shipwreck.]]> 2017-01-08 19:38:37 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_inglese/9695plzjozyq/wish/145875508 R. is full of religious references to God, Providence, sin, and salvation. The novel can be read as a spiritual autobiography where the hero reads the Bible to find comfort and guidance, experiences that Always contrast with evil and good. R. prays God to be freed from sin rather than to be rescued from the Island. carmen_inglese https://padlet.com/carmen_inglese/9695plzjozyq/wish/145875673 2017-01-08 19:41:40 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_inglese/9695plzjozyq/wish/145875673 What Daniel Defoe explores is the conflict between economic motivation and spiritual salvation. carmen_inglese https://padlet.com/carmen_inglese/9695plzjozyq/wish/145875846 2017-01-08 19:45:21 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_inglese/9695plzjozyq/wish/145875846 The setting of the Island id the ideal place for R. to prove his qualities, to demostrate that he deserves to be saved by God's Providence. Secondly, R. on the Island organizes a primitive empire, becoming the prototype of the British coloniser. carmen_inglese https://padlet.com/carmen_inglese/9695plzjozyq/wish/145875908 He applies a rational method to every situation: he always starts observing the situation, then he makes a list of all possible solutions, he considers pros and cons and he chooces the best alternative. ( Common sense of the Augustan Age). ]]> 2017-01-08 19:46:28 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_inglese/9695plzjozyq/wish/145875908 The style carmen_inglese https://padlet.com/carmen_inglese/9695plzjozyq/wish/145876117 The structure and the style of the novel show an objective approch to events through clear and precise details: Defoe concentrates his description on the primary qualities of the objects: solidity, extention and numbers . The language is simple, and concentrate to reinforce the impression of reality conveyed by the first person narration. ]]> 2017-01-08 19:50:02 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_inglese/9695plzjozyq/wish/145876117