¡Descarga robinson crusoe y más Apuntes en PDF de Literatura solo en Docsity! Robinson Crusoe By Daniel Defoe The author and the period: Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as he helped to popularise the form in Britain, and, along with others such as Samuel Richardson, is among the founders of the English novel. A prolific and versatile writer, he wrote more than 500 books, pamphlets and journals on various topics. Daniel Foe (his original name) was probably born in the parish of St. Giles Cripplegate, London. Defoe later added the aristocratic-sounding "De" to his name and on occasion claimed descent from the family of De Beau Faux. The date and the place of his birth are uncertain, with sources often giving dates of anywhere between 1659 to 1661. In Silvia Carrión Vázquez. Defoe's early life he experienced first-hand some of the most unusual occurrences in English history: in 1665, 70,000 were killed by the Great Plague of London. The Great Fire of London (1666) left standing only Defoe's and two other homes in his neighbourhood. In 1667, when Defoe was probably about seven years old, a Dutch fleet sailed up the Medway via the River Thames and attacked Chatham. By the time he was about 10, Defoe's mother Annie had died. Daniel Defoe died on 24 April 1731, probably while in hiding from his creditors. He was interred in Bunhill Fields, London, where his grave can still be visited Defoe's first notable publication was An Essay upon Projects, a series of proposals for social and economic improvement, published in 1697. His most successful poem, The True-Born Englishman (1701), defended the king against the perceived xenophobia of his enemies, satirising the English claim to racial purity. In 1701 Defoe, flanked by a guard of sixteen gentlemen of quality, presented the Legion's Memorial to the Speaker of the House of Commons, later his employer, Robert Harley. Some of his novels are: Robinson Crusoe (1719) , Captain Singleton (1720), Moll Flanders (1722), Roxana (1724) and Memoirs of a Cavalier. Robinson Crusoe was published in the eighteenth century and Chronologically it ranges from the Baroque of the seventeenth and the nineteenth-century Romanticism. The systematic and profound research in the world were very important, and many writers, thinkers and scientists question the politics, science, religion and traditional customs of the time and defend new ideas and then completely revolutionary values as tolerance, freedom, equality, the right to govern democratically, etc. A summary of the book: Crusoe sets sail from the Queen's Dock although his parents didn’t want, who wanted him to start a career. During the first journey there is a storm; and in the second one the ship is taken over by some pirates and Crusoe is enslaved by a Moor. Two years later, he manages to escape and a sea captain called Xury, who goes to Brazil, helps him. There the ship sinks and he is the only survivor. He arrives to an island and it seems that he is the only inhabitant. As a means to survive, he takes all the ship's weapons and supplies until someone finds him, he creates a calendar making marks in a wooden cross, he adopts a small parrot and reads the Bible and becomes religious. Finally, he begins to adapt to the island and the loneliness, and he discovers that she is not alone: a cannibal Indian tribe is living there. Crusoe immediately sees Indians as enemies and he wants to kill them because they eat prisoners. However, he realizes that they don’t know they are committing a crime. After that he helps one of the prisoners to escape because he was going to be executed. As they knew each other on Friday, Crusoe called him
