Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Why are there no female characters in Robinson Crusoe?

If you
are curious about stories in which there are men and women on islands, I recommend that you take
a look at a very good novel by Joseph Conrad titled Victory. There is also
Pitcairn's Island by Nordhoff and Hall, a part of their Bounty
Trilogy
. If a man were marooned on an island with an attractive woman, it wouldn't be
an adventure story but more of a fantasy. He might never want to leave the island. Then, of
course, they would probably be producing babies, and you would have a Swiss Family
Robinson
type of story. If a man were marooned on an island in the South Pacific and
managed to acquire...

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