The main content of "Robinson Crusoe"

The work mainly tells the story of the protagonist Robinson Crusoe, who was born in a middle-class family and aspired to travel around the world throughout his life. Once while sailing to Africa, he encountered a storm and drifted alone to an uninhabited desert island, where he began to live an isolated life. With his strong will and unremitting efforts, he survived on the desert island and returned to his hometown after 28 years, 2 months and 19 days.

This novel was created by Defoe inspired by a true story at that time. In September 1704, a Scottish sailor named Alexander Selkirk had an argument with the captain and was abandoned by the captain in the Atlantic Ocean. After living on a desert island for 4 years and 4 months, he was rescued by Captain Woods Rogers.

Based on Selkirk's legend, Defoe poured his many years of maritime experience into the characters, and fully used his rich imagination for literary processing, making "Lu Binson not only became a heroic figure in the minds of the small and medium-sized bourgeoisie at that time, but also became the first idealized emerging bourgeoisie in Western literature. Many years after its publication, the novel was translated into many languages ??and widely circulated around the world, and was adapted into movies and TV series many times.

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The era when Defoe lived was the era when British capitalism began to develop on a large scale. In 1702, he published "Shortcuts to the Elimination of Different Sects", which satirized the government's religious policies. He was arrested and sentenced to the shackles three times. After being released from prison, he engaged in editing newspapers and periodicals, and wrote many political and economic pamphlets. He was arrested three times due to his speech. In 1719, Defoe published his first novel "Robinson Crusoe".

This novel is based on Alexander Selkirk's real experience on a desert island. According to British magazine reports at the time: In April 1704, Selkirk rebelled at sea and was abandoned by the captain on a small island called Mazatier in the Juan Fernandez Islands, more than 900 kilometers away from the coast of Chile. He was discovered by navigators 4 years and 4 months later and rescued. By that time, Selkirk had forgotten human language and had become a complete savage. Defoe was inspired by this incident and conceived the story of Robinson.

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