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Daniel Defoe(1660-1731)  a successful businessman, a typical hardworking Englishman at his age a journalist and political pamphleteer, a novelist He favors the capitalist’ adventure in an new world. His first and greatest novel is known by everyone in China once as Robinson Crusoe, the most famous tale of shipwreck and solitary survival in all literature.  The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719) 《鲁宾逊飘流记》 Analysis of Robinson Crusoe three parts, only the first part read most widely and popular “The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who live Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an uninhabited 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 strangely delivered by Pirates. Written by himself.” Character analysis: Robinson Crusoe Robinson Crusoe is a real hero： a typical 18th-century English middle-class man, with a great capacity for work, inexhaustible energy, courage, patience and persistence in overcoming obstacles, in struggling against the hostile natural environment. He is a new man—a man sure of himself and sure of being able to establish himself anywhere in the world. He is a man of new age, in which doubt and uncertainty are replaced by hope and confidence. Robinson Crusoe is the enterpriser of his age. He is ready to command nature, his enemy, and to found his colony beyond the seas. He is a merchant-adventurer , interested in material profits. He is the colonist, the empire builder. Robinson Crusoe is an embodiment of the spirit of individual enterprise and colonial expansion of the rising bourgeoisie. Themes 1. sing a song of “the dignity of labor,” to justify for bourgeoisie accumulation of wealth through diligent work and colonial expansion. 2. explores the theme of “back to nature.” idyllic life on the island to contrast with the ru