Robinson Crusoe Analysis

Daniel Defoe tells tale of a marooned individual in order to criticize society. By using the Island location, similar to that of Shakespeare's The Tempest, Defoe is able to show his audience exactly what is necessary for the development of a utopian society. In The Tempest, the small society of Prospero's island addresses the aspects of morality, the supernatural and politics in the larger British society. In Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, the island's natural surroundings highlights the subject of man's individual growth, both spiritually and physically. Nature instantly exercises its power and control over man in the tropical storm that leads to the wreckage of Crusoe's ship.

Young Crusoe would not fall victim to this conformity that his parents desired for him. He was determined to not stick around home and work for the rest of his existence. Crusoe wanted to sail and that did not change even after his first few sailing mishaps. The work ethic Defoe brought to our attention seems to consume Crusoe later in the story, only after he refrains from sailing for a while and tries to settle. During his time in the Brasils, on his plantation, he is devoted to doing well for himself, but his adventuresome spirit soon returns and he wants to set sail again.

When Crusoe arrives on the island after the shipwreck, he realizes his situation is but a fulfillment of his father's prediction that if Crusoe disregarded his advice, Crusoe would find himself alone with no source of help. Alone on the island, Crusoe finds himself alienated from the outside world due to his sin. It is then that he questions himself “ before I lay down I did what I never had done in all my life I kneeled down and prayed to God to fulfil the promise to me that if I called upon him in the day of trouble he would deliver” (Defoe, 72). Crusoe is such an interesting character partly because he is so deeply flawed. We’re to understand that his original sin was a boundless curiosity about the world.

Firstly, the attitude of Crusoe changes throughout the novel when he realizes how important religion is. Crusoe is talking he explains what his father thinks about his idea of going out to sea. Crusoe making his finally decision he says "I consulted neither Father or Mother any more, nor so much as sent them Word of it; but leaving them to hear of it as they might, without asking God's Blessing, or my Father's, without any Consideration of Circumstances or Consequences and in an ill Hour, God knows"(Defoe,9). At the beginning of the novel Crusoe disobeys his family. He runs away to go on his adventure; even more he does not ask God for guidance and his blessings.

14-16). Shakespeare uses a metaphor in this quote to compare the terrible weather to King Lear’s terrible daughters. King Lear has to deal with the disaster of this storm. Edgar also braves the storm. King Lear meets Edgar disguised as poor Tom and says “Why thou wert better in thy grace than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies” (3.4.

All of them were grown with their own lives to attend to, except for Dan, who stayed on at the farm to help keep up the crops. His younger brother Dave still came back to the farm, from the busy city, to visit and bring his children to see their grandparents. Even though they were about the same age as my brother and I, we did not play with them because they were greedy and didn't suit our playing qualifications by continuously changing rules and cheating. It was rare that we encountered them anyhow, and that suited us fine. Most of the time we would stay the whole weekend.

Crusoe’s dwellings reflect his progression of needs and priorities as he spends more time on the island. The first dwelling Crusoe built only served as a means of protection. Upon arrival to the island, he tells us that his “thoughts were now wholly employ’d about securing myself against either savages, if any should appear, or wild beasts”(47). Crusoe is scared of what or who could reside on the island and begins to build himself a shelter. This shelter is primarily built for its defensive capabilities rather than a place that he can call home.

And I’m the Beast” (Golding,158). Simon thinking that the dead sow’s head is coming to life indicates that he has become overwhelmed by his fear of the beast. The fact that the beast lives within the boys and is impossible to kill instills a great amount of panic in Simon and even sends him unconscious. Additionally, another occurrence of altered reality is when the boys see Simon emerging in the darkness, think it is the beast and kill him. Golding demonstrates their misinterpretation in the following statement: “A thing was crawling out of the forest.

Russell Hillier in Crystal Beards and Dantean Influence in Jack London 's "to Build a Fire (II) states “In his last ditch effort to destroy man 's best friend and use its very lifeblood and vital warmth in order to save his own skin”. There was no way for the man to use the dog to warm his body, “With his helpless hands, he could neither draw nor hold his sheath-knife nor throttle the animal” (London). The man’s inability to kill the Dog shows that nature began to defeat him. He was unable to build a

Disorder in King Lear "Order from disorder sprung." (Paradise Lost)    A [kingdom] without order is a [kingdom] in chaos (Bartelby.com). In Shakespeare's tragic play, King Lear, the audience witnesses to the devastation of a great kingdom. Disorder engulfs the land once Lear transfers his power to his daughters, but as the great American writer, A.C. Bradley said, "The ultimate power in the tragic world is a moral order" (Shakespearean Tragedy). By examining the concept of order versus disorder in the setting, plot, and the character King Lear, Bradley's idea of moral order is clearly demonstrated by the outcome of the play.