Desert island novel
This semester I took a class called English Fiction, and in this class the teacher mentioned a genre of fiction called the desert island novel, and Robinson Crusoe is a typical representative of desert island fiction. The storyline and characters' activities are often confined to a barbaric and remote island in the middle of the sea, far from the objective reality of the human civilized world. It symbolizes an idealized natural and pristine way of living, and often expresses the virtues of goodness, courage, perseverance, and nobility in human nature. The tradition of desert island literature has a long history, and its origins are mainly in the European seaside countries. As early as 1719, that is, the beginning of Western fiction, the father of British fiction, Daniel Defoe, based on the real experience of a shipwrecked seaman, wrote "Robinson Crusoe", the first pioneer of desert island literature. Other representative works of desert island literature include Bynattin's Coral Island, Stevenson's Treasure Island, and William Golding's Lord of the Flies, among others.
Defoe's Robinson Crusoe tells the story of a man who is stranded on a deserted island. After the Renaissance, England gradually became stronger and expanded its colonies overseas through maritime hegemony, and desert island literature developed in the field of literature. Defoe's Robinson Crusoe is the most outstanding masterpiece of desert island literature. The story of Robinson Crusoe takes place in the seventeenth century, a period when England's manufacturing industry, commerce and overseas trade were both on a rapid rise. Robinson was an eighteen-year-old boy before he landed on a deserted island. At that time, Robinson was full of dissatisfaction with his mediocre life and ventured out to sea three times against his father's will, and in the third adventure to Africa for the black slave trade, Robinson's ship was wrecked due to a big storm. Finally returned to the original life of modern civilized society.
The whole book of Robinson Crusoe takes Robinson's life on the desert island as the main body, and this life occupies almost two-thirds of the novel's length. Robinson Crusoe" is groundbreaking in that the main character Robinson fell into a small number of people did not come to mark to save him, he can only improve their current plight through their own wisdom and hands. In order to survive, Robinson used the common sense of human society to build a house with his own hands, the manufacture of simple and crude tools, through hunting and animal breeding to maintain food supplies, step by difficult efforts after Robinson will no one deserted island into a suitable site for their own lives. The structure of Robinson Crusoe is typical of Arachne literature, namely, the main character is trapped on a deserted island for external reasons, and after a series of adventures on the deserted island, he is eventually rescued or saves himself and returns to civilized society. In Robinson Crusoe, the main character Robinson shines with the characteristic light of the rising bourgeoisie and the productive class. After a short period of grief on the deserted island, Robinson gives himself very little time to rest for more than twenty years. Although he is far from civilized society, he does not rest on his laurels and is willing to try anything that can change the status quo. This positive spirit of Robinson is the reason why people like him. Robinson Crusoe is set on a deserted island, far from industrial civilization, and this free environment is what people aspire to, thus making it the heyday of British desert island literature.
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