Website design By BotEap.comDaniel Defoe was born in 1659 at St. Gille’s, Cripplegate in London. He was a man of many shades. These different personal traits are reflected in his literary contribution. He had performed a numerous occupation during his lifetime. Some of his important masterpieces like “Essay on the Projects” (1698), “The True English Born Man” (1701), “The Hymn to the Pillar” (1703), “Consolidator” (1705), “Appearance of the Lady Veal” (1706), “History of the Union” (1708-09), “Reasons Against the Succession of the House of Hanover” (1712), “General History of Commerce” (1713), “Robinson Crusoe” (1719) , “Captain Singleton” (1720), “Mole Flanders” (1722), “Rexona, or the Fortunate Mistress” (1724) and other important literary works will remain glorious throughout the centuries.

Website design By BotEap.comDaniel Defoe picks up his magic pen at the age of sixty to write a multidimensional novel “Robinson Crusoe” (1719). After completing his novel, Daniel Defoe gets immense popularity among various readers and admirers. He gets the inspiration to write “Robinson Crusoe” from the real life events of Alexander Selkirk. Alexander Selkirk also spends five years alone on a desolate island.

Website design By BotEap.comHowever, Defoe’s “Robinson Crusoe” is still a very popular novel for everyone. “Robinson Crusoe” ranks with Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress” and Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels.” All the boys and girls who go to school are very interested in the story of “Robinson Crusoe”. It has the magic. It attracts the tender minds. It has that magnificent taste of adventure that is irresistible and no one can help it. Defoe knows the true magic that strikes the center of the heart of everyone of any age. Here lies the popularity and universality of “Robinson Crusoe”.

Website design By BotEap.comThe protagonist of the novel “Robinson Crusoe”, Robinson loves to travel. He ignores the precious instructions and advice from his parents. He runs away from home to explore new places and unknown lands. He goes to London. From London he sails to Guinea with an English captain. But unfortunately he is taken prisoner by the Turkish pirates. After two years of slavery, he finally breaks free. But due to bad weather, the ship is wrecked and all the other members of the ship lose their lives.

Website design By BotEap.comOnly Robinson is left to survive. He has been thrown on a desolate island. He thanks his fate for his survival. But at the same time he found out that he is the only human being alive in that unknown place. He feels joy, but the sorrow is too close to that much-desired joy. He doesn’t find a single human being with whom he can share his thoughts. He has no roof, no food, nothing to drink, no comfort, no security. But it is the innate nature of the human being to make the necessary adjustments. Robinson also adapts to nature and the situation.

Website design By BotEap.comFor a few days he sleeps on the branches of trees. He has no idea about the island. Little by little he discovers that his boat is coming closer to the shore due to the tides. He goes to the ship and takes very essential items. He carries food, bread, rice, cheese, wine, dried fruit, barley, wheat, carpenter’s tools, guns, nails, spikes, bedding, clothing, and hundreds of other vital equipment. You get a suitable place where you can erect your new protected shelter. He stores everything in his shelter and makes it suitable for living in. But soon he changes places and moves to a new location, where he finds much more advantages. He prepares a fence around his store that gives much more security.

Website design By BotEap.comNow he thanks Almighty God for saving his life and having a peaceful life on this island. He reads the Bible. He now has two parrots and a dog, he takes them off the boat. He learns to farm. He learns to make pots and glasses out of clay and also to make them durable. He divides twenty-four hours into various household chores. He is really grateful to God for saving his life and giving him everything. So far, Robinson is using nature in the passage of his life on the unknown island.

Website design By BotEap.comSuddenly one day he finds two canoes and eleven cannibals on the shore. For the first time he feels danger. But Robinson fights very bravely against the enemies and saves the lives of the innocent. He somehow he finds a very dependent and innocent human being. He starts calling him Friday. He calls it Friday as he receives it on Friday. Robinson gives him clothes. He teaches him to eat well and to speak “teacher”, “yes” and “no”. He talks to him about God and makes him a good Christian. Like an obedient Friday he also follows his master. He learns different housework. He treats Robinson like his father. Robinson finds a partner on a desolate island. He is quite relieved by Friday’s company. Both Robinson and Friday bravely fight off more cannibals and save the prisoners’ lives. Through different adventures and emotions, Robinson leaves the desolate island together with Friday and begins a new journey to new places.

Website design By BotEap.comDefoe wraps his novel “Robinson Crusoe” with the help of adventure, emotion, sensation, reflexes, morality, cannibals and loneliness. These are the elements of the popularity of his novel. Defoe makes the Robinson hero of him strong, resilient, brave, skilled and experienced and thus challenges him to such a hostile environment at the start. Defoe very skillfully mixes both reality and imagination. His imagination is full of reality. The episodes in the novel are really compelling. We never feel that it is a work of pure imagination. Defoe’s hero is both happy and sad. He is sad because he is alone on a lonely island. On the other hand, he is happy because God has saved his life and provided him with all the good facilities on such an island.

Website design By BotEap.comDefoe writes “Robinson Crusoe” in a very simple and spontaneous style. His simple style draws his readers to read more. Simple, easy, spontaneous, simple, colloquial, full of allegories, charming attitude – these are all the best ingredients that make the novel “Robinson Crusoe” a popular novel at all stages of life and throughout the world.