Wednesday, September 12, 2012

How does Defoe show irony in Robinson Crusoe?

Defoe
showsin Crusoe's fate on the desert
island. Crusoe heads out impetuously looking for riches,
only to find himself
alone with next to nothing but what he can salvage from the sunken ship.
Yet
ironically, in the stark simplicity of his life on the island, he finds abundance
unlike
what he experienced when far more material goods were available. This
causes him to reflect on
life, writing,


All our discontents about what we want
appeared to me to spring from
the want of thankfulness for what we have.



Crusoe is in a situation which would to outside eyes seem

an...

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