【正文】 o call himself “master”, that implies his ambition to dominate and colonize other savage tribes. excuse to colonization by the white.,第二十四頁，共七十八頁。,The book proved so popular that the name of the two main protagonists have entered the language. The term “Robinson Crusoe” is virtually synonymous with the word” castaway” and is often used as a metaphor for being rejected.,Idioms from the book,第二十五頁，共七十八頁。,Robinson Crusoe usually referred to his servant as My man Friday, from which the term Man Friday originated, referring to a dedicated personal assistant, servant, or companion.,第二十六頁，共七十八頁。,Everyone can be abandoned on the desert island like Robinson, the truth is even we are now living around in a hustle and bustle of large crowds, we still have a lot of moment to be alone, to work our own path of life all alone. but luckily, what Robinson Crusoe shows us is: solitude is not a horrible thing。 the really sad thing is we can not stand on our own feet in the misery of that endless loneliness.,Deeper meaning,第二十七頁，共七十八頁。,He is considered one of the greatest fiction writers of 18thcentury England. Defoe was a very good storyteller. He had a gift for organizing minute (careful and exact) details in such a vivid way that his stories could be both credible and fascinating. His sentences are sometimes short, crisp and plain, and sometimes long and rambling, while leave on the reader an impression of casual narration. His language is smooth, easy, colloquial and mostly vernacular. There is nothing artificial in his language: it is common English at its best.,Adventures of Robinson Crusoe,第二十八頁，共七十八頁。,The story of Robinson Crusoe is wellknown throughout the world. It tells of how Robinson Crusoe, an English mariner, having shipwrecked on an island, managed to struggle for live for 28 years there and rescued a black man, whom he named Friday, from the cannibals (person who eats human flesh). Later, Robinson got hold of a ship and sailed home. The book’s “realistic” touch and ingenuity (originality) aroused great interest from the readers both in England and abroad.,第二十九頁，共七十八頁。,The story was based on the life of Alexander Selkirk, who was put ashore on an uninhabitated island and spent 5 years there. Defoe was probably familiar with several versions of this tale, and added many incidents from his own imagination to his account of Crusoe, presenting it as a true story. The story starts with Robinson Crusoe’s running away from home. An inexperienced teenager and a young man full of bright fancies about the future, he naturally chooses going to sea, because in those days it meant a chance to live a chivalrous life, to see the wonders of the world and to make a fortune.,第三十頁，共七十八頁。,After many setbacks and adventures on the sea, he settles down in Brazil as a planter. But the call of the sea is so strong that he soon embarks on another voyage, this time, to Africa. Unfortunately a frightful storm blows the boat off its course and shipwrecks it near an island.,第三十一頁，共七十八頁。,Of all the ship’s crew Robinson alone escapes to the shore after strenuous efforts. After salvaging from the wrecked ship some stores of necessities such as bread, rice, barley, corn, planks, lead and gunpowder, an axe and two saws, which he later manages to bring to the island with a selfmade raft. After several futile attempts to leave the island, Robinson settles himself down to a hard and lonely life.,第三十二頁，共七十八頁。,He grows crops, domesticates animals and builds comfortable homes himself. His life takes a turn for the better when he saves from the hands of savages a young Negro, whom he names Friday. Robinson teaches him English and educates him in such a way that Friday soon becomes a loyal servant and an indispensable help to him. Finally they are picked up by an English ship and return to England. Thus ends the first part of the story.,第三十三頁，共七十八頁。,In Robinson Crusoe, Defoe traces the growth of Robinson from a na239。ve and artless （simple, innocent） youth into a shrewd and hardened (strongminded) man, tempered by numerous trials in his eventful life. The realistic account of the successful struggle of Robinson singlehandedly against the hostile nature forms the best part of the novel.,第三十四頁，共七十八頁。,Robinson is here a real hero: a typical eighteenthcentury English middleclass man, with a great capacity for work, inexhaustible energy, courage, patience and persistence in overcoming obstacles, in struggling against the hostile natural environment. He is the very prototype of the empire builder, the pioneer colonist.,第三十五頁，共七十八頁。,As a member of the middle class, Defoe spoke for and to the members of his class and his novels enjoyed great popularity a