4.5 Robinson Crusoe英国文学导读.pdf

Robinson Crusoe 1. Full Title: The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliverd by Pyrates. • (1719) 2. Source The novel is said to be based on the real adventures of Alexander who once stayed alone on a Pacific island for 5 years. 3. Story of Robinson Crusoe an Englishman from a middle-class merchant family, running away from home to go to the sea against his father’s wish establishing himself as a plantation owner in Brazil sole survivor of a shipwreck surviving alone on an island rescuing a black man from cannibals and renaming him Friday and taking him as his servant rescued by an English ship and returning to England after living on the island for almost 30 years Theme 1. It is a story of sea adventures. 2. It is a story to express various types of middle-class values: • pragmatism • “the dignity of labor” • putting commercial career, material benefit above love and family • practical and hard-working 3. It is a story of colonist expansion. Features of his Novels (1) Picaresque tradition (2) Autobiographical form and first person narration (3) Journalistic style with great detail and specific time and space 有缘学习更多+谓ygd3076考证资料