Book Report of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe 《鲁滨孙漂流记》读书笔记
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Book Report of Daniel Defoe's Robinson
Crusoe
Structure:
1 Lead-in
2
Brief contents and background
3 Thoughts and
revelation
4 Writing features
5 Influence
and significance
1 Lead-in
The most
prominent European enlighten ideologist of
18
th
century
Rousseau suggested that
every growing young people, particularly boys
should read Defoe’s masterpiece Robinson
Crusoe.
2 Brief contents and background
The author narrates Robinson’s adventures by
time sequence.
British youth Robinson likes
voyage since his childhood, and he has
three
experiences of leaving home and traveling around
South America.
From the desperate crevices,
strong-minded Crusoe lives independently
for
28 years on the island and gets revelation of
life. Living and working
lonely on the
deserted island, he creates his own farm, rears
animals, and
grows produces rice and wheat.
Year after year, loneliness is his only
companion, but he overcomes all difficulties
which ordinary people can’t
manage to.
The Bible becomes his spiritual pillar. With
amazing
willpower and stubborn labor, he
builds houses, harvests grain,
domesticates
goats, and makes clothes from animals’ fur. He
fights with
wild animals and uncivilized
savages who eat human flesh. Later he saves
a
native and calls him “Friday”, taking him as
servant. With unusual
perseverance and
courage, he overcomes the unthinkable hardships,
and
with his industrious hands, he creates a
home to survive. Until the 28 year
an English
ship arrives near the island, Crusoe helps the
captain
overwhelms the insurgency sailors,
just then does him go back to Britain.
At that
time his parents are all dead, Crusoe retreats all
his benefits from
manors in Brazil, and gives
part of his benefits to people who have helped
him.
Defoe’s creation of this novel was
inspired by a true story. In 1704,
Scottish
sailor Alexander Selkirk had a quarrel with his
captain at sea and
was abandoned by the
captain on a lonely island, four years later he
was
rescued back to England. The author Defoe
made comments on Robinson
as below: his image
is a man who is not satisfied with quo-status, he
is
brave, active, and he has the courage to
pursue his dream while without
any fear of
difficulties, and a creator creating a new world
by modern
civilization.
3 Thoughts and
revelation
After reading it, there are many
feelings in my mind. First of all, I
think it is not very suitable to
translate the title “Robinson Crusoe” to
“鲁
滨孙漂流记” in Chinese. The most important
experiences in Crusoe’s life
were living in
the deserted island for 28 years, which was none
of
drafting’s business. Therefore, I think the
Chinese title “鲁滨孙漂流记”
is not called
correctly, with some disputes with the content. I
think we
might as well call it “鲁滨孙历险记”, thus
it can more accurately reflect
his adventures.
After reading this novel, I thought of
Hemingway’s famous words:
“A man is not made
for defeat. You can destroy him, but you can never
defeat him.”
In the book, the hero----
Robinson’s survival on the deserted island
reflects the enterprising spirit and the
confidence and courage to
challenge nature,
and these are widely respected by people. It tells
people
that in difficulties we can’t lose
courage. Courage and perseverance is the
most
valuable, without it, we shall never get rid of
troubles.
Daniel Defoe describes Robinson’s
survival on the island,
self-reliance,
fighting with harsh environment with great length
and
moving scene, and praises people’s wisdom
and good character of
industriousness. Among
them, the plots of setting his home, making
canoe reflect that Robinson is characterized
with utilization and good at
discovering. The
hero is intelligent, energetic; do believe “common
sense” rather than destiny.
In
fact, the image of Robinson is a typical image of
representative of
British bourgeoisie of the
17th century who are advanced, adventurous
and
brave in exploration. It shows intense
enterprising spirit and
enlightenment
consciousness of bourgeoisie.
4 Writing
features
The plot structure is so truly-like
and natural that it falls no artificial.
Daniel Defoe is particularly good at
describing environment; the detail
and
fictional scenarios are so lifelike that they make
readers feel like they
are experiencing those
things and thus can’t help believing they are
true.
His language is natural, without
quotations; the story is all told by the
protagonist, and it makes readers feel
cordial. Its language is plain but
vivid, and
easy to be understood.
5 Influence and
significance
Though not very mature in art, it
played a positive role to the
development of
English novel. Thus the novel’s hero Robinson
became a
famous literature image in European
literature history.
The novel creates a fresh
artistic image of Robinson with features of
new times. The gripping story, lifelike
description of natural environment
and plots
break the ascetic, flashy, empty style of
classicalism. It paves
the way for British
realistic enlightenment novel and becomes the
first
real British realism novel.
Robinson
Crusoe is Daniel Defoe’s masterpiece; it is a
famous and
popular literary classics.
It shows intense enterprising spirit and
enlightenment consciousness of bourgeois. The
author uses vivid details
of the fictional
scenes and thus makes readers feel that the story
is really
true. Robinson, protagonist of this
novel also became a famous literature
image in
European literature history.
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Mar 29, 2011