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    Robinson Crusoe Robinson Crusoe Is The Narrator and The Main Character of The Story, He Is A Rebellious

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    Robinson Crusoe is the narrator and main character of the story. He is a rebellious youth who feels an inexplicable need to travel, which ultimately leaves him shipwrecked alone on an uninhabited island for many years. While stranded, he works hard to survive, create shelter, farm the land, and develop the skills necessary to sustain himself. Throughout his isolation, the story chronicles his mental and spiritual development. Though resourceful and industrious, Crusoe also displays flaws like a lack of emotion, indifference, and delusions of power and prestige over others.

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    Robinson Crusoe is the narrator and main character of the story. He is a rebellious youth who feels an inexplicable need to travel, which ultimately leaves him shipwrecked alone on an uninhabited island for many years. While stranded, he works hard to survive, create shelter, farm the land, and develop the skills necessary to sustain himself. Throughout his isolation, the story chronicles his mental and spiritual development. Though resourceful and industrious, Crusoe also displays flaws like a lack of emotion, indifference, and delusions of power and prestige over others.

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    Robinson Crusoe is the narrator and main character of the story. He is a rebellious youth who feels an inexplicable need to travel, which ultimately leaves him shipwrecked alone on an uninhabited island for many years. While stranded, he works hard to survive, create shelter, farm the land, and develop the skills necessary to sustain himself. Throughout his isolation, the story chronicles his mental and spiritual development. Though resourceful and industrious, Crusoe also displays flaws like a lack of emotion, indifference, and delusions of power and prestige over others.

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    Robinson Crusoe Robinson Crusoe Is The Narrator and The Main Character of The Story, He Is A Rebellious

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    Robinson Crusoe Robinson Crusoe is The narrator and the main character of the story, he is a rebellious youth with

    an inexplicable need to travel. Because of this need, he brings misfortune on himself and is left to fend for himself in a primitive land. The novel essentially chronicles his mental and spiritual development as a result of his isolation. He is a contradictory character; at the same time he is practical ingenuity and immature decisiveness. Crusoe sets sail at nineteen years of age, despite his father's demand that he stay at home and be content with his middle station in life. Crusoe eventually establishes a farm in Bra!il and reali!es he is living the life his father planned for him, but he is half a world away from "ngland. Crusoe agrees to sail to the #uinea Coast to trade for slaves, but when a terrible storm blows up, he is marooned on an island, alone. He spends $% years there, and his time on the island forms the basis of the novel. &hile he is no flashy hero or grand epic adventurer, 'obinson Crusoe displays character traits that have won him the approval of generations of readers. His perseverance in spending months ma(ing a canoe, and in practicing pottery ma(ing until he gets it right, is praiseworthy. )dditionally, his resourcefulness in building a home, dairy, grape arbor, country house, and goat stable from practically nothing is clearly remar(able. The *wiss philosopher +ean,+ac-ues 'ousseau applauded Crusoe.s do,it,yourself independence Crusoe.s business instincts are /ust as considerable as his survival instincts0 he manages to ma(e a fortune in Bra!il despite a twenty,eight,year absence and even leaves his island with a nice collection of gold. 1oreover, Crusoe is never interested in portraying himself as a hero in his own narration. He does not boast of his courage in -uelling the mutiny, and he is always ready to admit unheroic feelings of fear or panic, as when he finds the footprint on the beach. Crusoe prefers to depict himself as an ordinary sensible man, never as an exceptional hero. But Crusoe.s admirable -ualities must be weighed against the flaws in his character. Crusoe seems incapable of deep feelings, as shown by his cold account of leaving his family2he worries about the religious conse-uences of disobeying his father, but never displays any emotion about leaving. Though he is generous toward people, as when he gives gifts to his sisters and the captain, Crusoe reveals very little tender or sincere affection in his dealings with them. &hen Crusoe tells us that he has gotten married and that his wife has died all within the same sentence, his indifference to her seems almost cruel. 1oreover, as an individual personality, Crusoe is rather dull. His precise and deadpan style of narration wor(s well for recounting the process of canoe building, but it tends to drain the excitement from events that should be thrilling. )ction,pac(ed scenes li(e the con-uest of the cannibals become -uite humdrum when Crusoe narrates them, giving us a detailed inventory of the cannibals in list form, for example. His insistence on dating events ma(es sense to a point, but it ultimately ends up seeming obsessive and irrelevant when he tells us the date on which he grinds his tools but neglects to tell us the date of a very important event li(e meeting 3riday. 4erhaps his impulse to record facts carefully is not a survival s(ill, but an irritating sign of his neurosis.

    3inally, while not boasting of heroism, Crusoe is nonetheless very interested in possessions, power, and prestige. &hen he first calls himself (ing of the island it seems /ocund, but when he describes the *paniard as his sub/ect we must ta(e his royal delusion seriously, since it seems he really does consider himself (ing. His teaching 3riday to call him 51aster,6 even before teaching him the words for 5yes6 or 5no,6 seems obnoxious even under the racist standards of the day, as if Crusoe needs to hear the ego,boosting word spo(en as soon as possible. 7verall, Crusoe.s virtues tend to be private0 his industry, resourcefulness, and solitary courage ma(e him an exemplary individual. But his vices are social, and his urge to sub/ugate others is highly ob/ectionable. 8n bringing both sides together into one complex character, 9efoe gives us a fascinating glimpse into the successes, failures, and contradictions of modern man.

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