Comparing Defoe & Swift: Robinson Crusoe vs Gulliver's Travels, Schemi e mappe concettuali di Inglese

Scarica Comparing Defoe & Swift: Robinson Crusoe vs Gulliver's Travels e più Schemi e mappe concettuali in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! DANIEL DEFOE & JONATHAN SWIFT Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver’s Travels Alamprese Michela D’Angelo Matteo Fratini Thomas 4°A LSS Daniel Defoe Life and works Daniel Defoe was born in 1660 into a family Dissenters, a Protestant sect which refused the authority of the Church of England. He started to write in Whig papers. As journalist he wrote “The Review”, the periodical which he published from 1704 to 1713. He became a famous and well-paid intellectual by writing political essays and pamphlets up till the reign of Queen Anne. The queen did not like his critical attitude and had him arrested and imprisoned. He denied his Whig ideas and became a secret agent for the new government. When he was about sixty, he started to write novels which were very successful. In 1719 he published his first novel, Robinson Crusoe, which was followed by Captain Singleton in 1720. In 1722 he published Moll Flanders and Colonel Jack. Defoe’s last novel was The Fortunate Mistress, better known as Roxana. Thanks to the money he earned with there works, he could afford a comfortable standard of life, but his old creditors haunted him and pushed him into numerous adventures till his death in 1731. Robinson Crusoe Plot and characters Robinson Crusoe was born in 1632 in York from a German father and an English mother. Encouraged by his father to study law, Crusoe expresses his wish to go to sea instead, but his family is against him. At the age of nineteen he decided to travel around the world to make his fortune, and during one voyage he is shipwrecked on a desert island where he must remain for twenty-eight years. He spent twelve years alone and subsequently saved a native by cannibals. This native, called Friday by Robinson because he met him in this day, became his slave. After twenty-eight years Robinson returned to his country and became a governator. The characters of this novels are: Robinson Crusoe -  The novel’s protagonist and narrator is Crusoe, a young middle-class man. He is a flat character but he undergoes also an evolution. Crusoe is steady in everything he does, and his perseverance ensures his survival through storms, enslavement, and a twenty-eight-year isolation on a desert island. The most important features of this character are his perseverance and his resourcefulness. Crusoe’s business instincts are as considerable as his survival instincts: he manages to make a fortune in Brazil despite a twenty-eight-year absence and even leaves his island with a nice collection of gold. Moreover, Crusoe is never interested in portraying himself as a hero. He is generous toward people.