"Robinson Crusoe" is a widely circulated and influential literary masterpiece. It reflects the strong bourgeois enterprising spirit and enlightenment consciousness. This novel was created by Defoe inspired by a true story at that time. In 1704, Scottish sailor Selkirk had a quarrel with the captain at sea and was abandoned by the captain on a desert island. Four years later, he was rescued and returned to England. Selkirk did not perform any heroic deeds worthy of praise on the desert island. But the Robinson created by Defoe was a completely new person, and he became a hero in the minds of the small and medium-sized bourgeoisie at that time. He was the first ideal image of the emerging bourgeoisie in Western literature. The whole book is divided into three parts. The first part is about Robinson's three voyages away from home. The second part is the main body of the novel, about Robinson's various experiences on the desert island. The third part is about Robinson's experiences on the desert island. What happened after he left the desert island. This book celebrates labor and the spirit of fighting against nature. After the novel came out, the protagonist Robinson, a character with a distinctive mark of the times and a persevering spirit, became a famous literary image in the history of European literature.
Introduction to Robinson Crusoe
In the history of Western literature, the image of Robinson Crusoe is well known. "Robinson Crusoe" established the story of this man who wandered on a desert island for decades. The loner's status as a mythical hero - Robinson Crusoe, the hero who created civilization alone. He was in danger while sailing and drifted to a deserted island in South America alone. With his hands and tools, he built houses, cultivated fields, planted food, and raised livestock. He also rescued a man from the sword of the indigenous people, named him Friday, and adopted him as his wife. His own slave...Robinson spent 28 years building the desert island into a paradise, and finally miraculously returned to Europe and became a wealthy man.
The author Defoe describes in the book that Robinson lived a life completely isolated from the world, feeling lonely and painful inside. There is a description like this: "Suddenly, an indescribable strong request arose in my heart. Sometimes, I couldn't help but blurt out loudly: "Ah! Even if there are one or two - even if only one person comes from this She escaped with her life and came to me! She gave me a companion, someone of the same kind to talk to and talk to!" I have lived a lonely life for many years, and it has never been as intense as it is today. He longed for someone to interact with him, and he had never felt the pain of not having a partner as deeply as he did today." This sense of loneliness and pain in Robinson's heart, this strong call for friends, is a good illustration of the need for friendship in life. .
Robinson Crusoe" is Defoe's masterpiece. It is a literary masterpiece that is widely circulated and has great influence. It shows the strong bourgeois enterprising spirit and enlightenment consciousness. The author uses vivid and realistic details to write fictional scenes that make people feel like they are actually there, giving the story a strong sense of reality. The protagonist of the novel, Robinson Crusoe, has also become a famous literary image in the history of European literature.
My father originally wanted me to study law, but I wanted to sail. One day I went to Hull, and one of my companions was going to London in his father's ship. Nothing could have tempted me more than this, and I must go with him—this was August 1651. month, I was nineteen years old.
As soon as the boat sailed out of the sea, it encountered terrible wind and waves, which made me feel indescribably sad and terrified in my heart. I swore in pain that if God spared my life during this voyage, I would return to my loving parents as soon as I landed on land, and I would definitely follow their advice from now on.
But the wind stopped the next day and the waves stopped. The sun was setting in the west, and what followed was a beautiful and lovely dusk. At this time, after drinking a bowl of sweet wine made by my companion, I threw away my determination to go home after this voyage. This habit of mine has brought great misfortune to my life - my willful actions often bring disaster to me, but I always refuse to take the opportunity to repent when disaster strikes. As soon as the danger passed, I forgot all my vows and threw myself into my nameless life without any hesitation.
After that first stormy voyage, I had several different adventures.
When I was doing business in Guinea, Africa, I was captured by a Turkish pirate ship and sold into slavery. After many dangers, I escaped to Brazil, where I ran a sugar cane plantation by myself and lived a very smooth life. But then I became a victim of temptation again. Due to the shortage of labor in Brazil, several plantation owners knew that I had visited some slave market ports in Africa for business. They tried their best to coax me to make a voyage to that area to buy some black slaves for their plantations. .
People will be unlucky if they follow bad ideas. Our ship ran aground on an unnamed island on the north coast of South America. All the sailors and passengers drowned. God bless me, only I was swept ashore by the high waves and saved my life. All I had was a knife, a pipe, and a little tobacco in a box. When I had recovered enough strength to walk, I walked along the coast. To my great joy I discovered fresh water. After drinking the water, he took a handful of tobacco and put it in his mouth to satisfy his hunger. I perched on a tree and had a comfortable sleep to refresh myself. The sea was calm. But what pleased me the most was that I saw the boat. When the tide went out, I saw that it was very close to the coast. I found that I could easily swim to the boat. There was only one dog and two cats left on the ship, and no other living creatures. But there were a lot of necessities on board, so I got to work. In order to transport those things to an inlet on the island, I specially built a raft and made a relatively flat highland with fresh water on the island my residence. Bread, rice, barley and wheat, cheese and mutton jerky, sugar, flour, boards, logs, rope—all this, plus a few muskets, two pistols, several shotguns, a hammer, and --That's the most useless thing of all--thirty-six pounds. I carried all these things from the boat to the shore one by one, day after day - between two low tides. On the night of the thirtieth day, my portage work was completed. When I lay down, although I was as scared as usual, my heart was also full of gratitude, because I knew that I was well prepared to deal with this desert island in the future. And I feel at ease in my heart.
There are many wild fruit trees on the island, but it took me a long time to discover them. There were goats running around on the island, but if I hadn't brought the guns and ammunition from the ship, what good would they do to me? I have reason, therefore, to thank the merciful God for leaving the ship on the shore until I could bring in everything that could be of use to me.
There is still a lot to do to ensure my survival on this island. I tried my best to do a few things that I had to do one after another. But my efforts have not always led to good luck. The first time I sowed the seeds of barley and rice, half of this precious stock was wasted because the seeds were sown at the wrong time. I worked hard for several months and dug several cellars to store fresh water. It took forty-two days to chop down a large tree into my first long plank. I worked diligently for several weeks to make a stone mortar for pounding wheat, but in the end I had to hollow out a large piece of wood. I spent five months cutting down a big cedar tree, splitting and paring it, and turned it into a decent-looking canoe for escaping from the island, but in the end I couldn't do anything about it. It went into the sea and had to be discarded. However, every failure taught me something I didn’t know before.
As for the natural environment, there are violent storms and earthquakes on the island. I got used to everything by then. I planted and harvested my barley and wheat; I gathered wild grapes and dried them into nutritious raisins; I raised tame goats, which I killed and ate, smoked and pickled. With such a variety of food, the supply is not bad. Twelve years have passed like this, during which time I have never seen a single human being on the island except myself. This continued until that fateful day when I accidentally discovered a man's bare footprints on the beach.
I felt like I was struck by a thunderbolt. I listened attentively and looked around, but I heard nothing and saw nothing.