鲁宾逊漂流记(英文版).ppt

The Archetype of Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe is one of the world's most popular adventure novels. Daniel Defoe based his classic tale of shipwreck and survival on an uninhabited island is based on a true story. The real Robinson Crusoe was a Scotsman named Alexander Selkirk .
Selkirk eventually returned to his home in Scotland, where he became quite a celebrity. Though he did get married, he never quite recovered from his stay on the island. Spending much of his time alone, he didn‘t fortable living indoors and built a sort of cave or bower(凉棚) behind his father's house that he stayed in. He also trained two cats to perform little feats, like he did on the island. Eventually he returned to sea and he died of fever off the coast of Africa in 1721 at the age of 45.
◆ However, Defoe himself didn’t acknowledge this resource.
Background
Robinson Crusoe was written in the middle of 17th century. At that time, the bourgeois revolution was just over. Robinson was epitome of the society.
The novel showed the time spirit that advocated freedom and development. At the same time, it showed Benthamism (utilitarianism) in the world.
Robinson’s youth
He fought against the advice of his father, pursuing his livelihood by going to sea.
He does so and after a false start he has some ess but a third voyage ends in slavery
He eventually escapes and es a essful plantation owner.
He embarks on a slave gathering expedition to West Africa but is shipwrecked off the coast of Venezuela in a terrible storm.
His twenty-eight years on an uninhabited island
There was nothing but some jungles, wild animals.
When es to the island
make a great Cross on the Shore