Do you find in Defoe's apparently artless style a cunning deliberation, a power of irony and conscious mastery of narrative? Substantiate your answer.

Defoe was
a very talented writer.  He makes this story a fictional autobiography in order to increase the
importance of Crusoe's life.  To support the illusion that it is an autobiography, Defoe writes
it as a journal, as if the "real" Crusoe is recording his life story.

This illusion of a real Crusoe is established by the presence of a preface to the
journal.  In that, Crusoe...