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Crusoe. It was the best seller and well known tales of adventure in the 18th century. Many people have researched it from many aspects, such as Puritanism and desolated island characteristics in it, but few have researched it to discover the spirit of innovation and satisfaction of life from Robinson Crusoe. The author tries to illustrate these two aspects and their meaningful application in present society. Ⅰ . Introduction of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is a famous novel in British literature. It tells some adventures of Robinson, the most adventurous one is his life on an isolated island. A. Main Idea of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe tells a story about a young man named Robinson Crusoe. In fact, he lives a fortable life before his first sailing. But he is persisted in sailing with his friend at the first time. During this sailing, they are caught in a storm. Fortunately, they land safely. But he does not reconcile himself to an insipid life. Then, he continues to go sailing. This time, their ship is attacked by pirates. After that, he sails to Africa, they are caught in hurricane. What a pity! Only he is alive, but he is on an isolated island. There are no other people on this island or around the island. Beyond all expectation, he uses the tools and seeds which he gets from the sunken ship to create houses, makes clothes and grows crops. He has enough food to eat, such as rice, mutton, grapes and fish. He yet does not concern himself about his clothes. Robinson lives there fortable and healthy, with his courage and belief. He creates something with simple and crude tools miraculously. In his spare time, he read Bile. God always blesses him, like the most story and movie. Hero es back to England at the end of the novel. 免費論文下載 B. Introduction of the Author of Daniel Defoe The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is written by Daniel Defoe. In his life, there are full of amazing achievements and failures. He once did business, entered politics, and he once was sent to prison. However, he has made a brilliant acplishment in literature. He is erudite, his successes including fictions, poems, news, biographies, and travel notes. So he is called “father of Britain fiction” and “father of Europe fiction”. Moll Flanders, Captain Singleton, A Journal of the Plague Year, and Roxana are all his famous works. And among all his works, his first and the most celebrated one is The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Because of this work, Defoe bees the first one to write adventure on the sea. He also writes the first fiction of realism and describes the first good bourgeois’s image. Ⅱ . Present Situation of Research Many experts and translators have researched it and mented differently on Daniel Defoe and his tale The Life and Surprising Adventure of Robinson Crusoe by their own angles of views. A. Desolated Island Characteristics Montesquieu introduces that the character of a nation grows out of its geography( Montesquieu, 1982) . Desolated island characteristics in British are related to its geographic environments. Britain sets on the sea and its people are stubborn. They like adventures and explorations. The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is a typical example. There is an extensive environment which is far away from the plex society in this tale. Only the sea is around this desolated island. No land can be seen. The experience of Robinson corresponds with the structure of desolated island characteristics. He does not cower, and seeks for survival by his endeavor. He spends several months making a canoe. After finishing this work, he finds that it needs twelve years to dig a river and put into sea. He has to give that canoe up. But, he still cuts down tree to make another canoe near the sea. It takes him two years. He finds a little seed of rice by accident, and then he sows some. Because he does not do it at right time, he cannot get a good harvest. He does not lose heart, and sows some seed again. He is not bored with working. Without anybody’s help on 免費論文下載 an isolated island he creates his implements of production, food, houses and clothes. B. Puritanism in The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Puritanism takes an important place in Britain in the 17th and 18th century. So, it also affects Daniel Defoe. In The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, this notion of region is reflected. Robinson is alone on the desolated island, so he is a hard working man. He must do everything by himself. He spends many days on making a canoe, and he makes the earthen pots again and again. The confession of Robinson also can display Defoe’s Puritanism. He always read Bible and longs for some strength given from God. Sometimes, he makes some wrong decisions and gets bad results. Then he prays for God’s fiveness and inclines to rectify his behavior. In this novel, individualism is indispensable. Robison is one of the middle bourgeoisies. He has the traditional notion of capitalism, so he makes everything for himself. Robinson saves Friday with his advanced gun. And he educates Friday with his the tes of t