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A Comment on Robinson Crusoe I was just a schoolchild when I read Robinson Crusoe for the first time. At that time, I just felt that Robinson was such a hero that he could survive in that terrible living conditions. Now that I have grown up to an adult, I have some new opinions about this novel. First, I want to talk about the author. Daniel Defoe, an English novelist, journalist, and pamphleteer, is mainly known as the author of his masterpiece Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is considered as the founder of the English novel. He was born in London, the son of a butcher. And he suffered a lot in his entire life, bankrupt, imprisonment and heavy debt. When he was nearly 60, he turned to fiction and wrote the great masterpiece by which he is remembered.The features of Defoe’s novels As a writer of the Enlightenment, Defoe attached great importance to the moulding of character and to the education through the influence of varied environment. He also wrote some novels such as Captain Singleton and Moll Flanders during his remaining years. The theme and the significance of the novel “Robinson Crusoe” Robinson Crusoe sings a song of labor, presenting it as the source of human pride and happiness as well as a means to change man’s living conditions from desperation to prosperity. It’s a slogan which the bourgeoisie used to justify their accumulation of wealth. It is an artistic projection of colonial expansion. (the civilized vs. the savage)  The theme of “back to nature” and religious devotion. On the whole, Robinson Crusoe is significant as the first English novel which glorifies the individual experience of ordinary people in plain and simple language, and also as a vivid and positive portray of the English bourgeoisie at the earlier stages of its development. The image of Robinson Crusoe Robinson Crusoe is portrayed as a hero of the common stock, an individualist---a self-made man, who shows marvelous capacity for work, boundless courage and energy in overc