Sunday, 7 March 2010

What aspects of religion are revealed in Robinson Crusoe?

The novel
by , which tells the story of a man who becomes a castaway on a remote
island for 28 years, is full of religion and religious references. Defoe was a Puritan who wrote
guidebooks on how to be a good Christian, and he wrote the book as a fictional account of a
sinner who has a conversion experience.

In the beginning of the story,
Crusoe leaves home and goes to sea against his father's wishesdespite his father's warning that
God will not bless him if he does this. Crusoe...

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