Analysis on humanistic thought in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe 英语专业毕业论文.docVIP

Analysis on humanistic thought in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe Introduction Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is regarded as a most famous romantic works. In this novel, Defoe described one man’s journey and through his hard working, Robinson finally created the miracle. This is a story of an ordinary man, who is coming from an industrious and well-do family in middle classes. The whole novel is about his isolation from the whole society and his life lonely living in an island. In this novel, through Robinson’s first personal narrative, we experience his whole life following him. Finally, after his hardworking and struggling, Robinson achieved his success. Many people long for success. But to succeed is not easy at all. There are many books teaching people how to succeed. But most of them are boring and sermonizing. Compared with such books, Robinson Crusoe is much more pleasing. Daniel Defoe, one of the earliest realists, brought to us a representative of successful man by vividly narrating Robinson’s adventure. Robinson Crusoe is a real hero worth of worship, as he didn’t succeed by luck and accident but hard work. He almost has everything needed for becoming a successful man, such as great creativity, very excellent working capacity, inexhaustible energy, courage, patience, and persistence in overcoming obstacles. Let’s see how these strong points are attached to Robinson Crusoe. In this paper, we will make analysis on humanistic thought in this novel from definition of humanism and impact of humanism and the detailed performance of humanistic thought reflected in this novel: being pursuit of freedom-adventurism, purist of individual liberation-individualism, and importance of human knowledge-education. 1. Daniel Defoe and Robinson Crusoe 1.1 Introduction to the Author -- Daniel Defoe Daniel Defoe is one of the most famous English novelist, pamphleteer and journalist and his most famous novel is Robinson Crusoe. He is considered as one of the founder of