Discuss realism in Robinson Crusoe and explain why Defoe is considered the father of realism.

Defoe is
considered "the father of " because he wrote about people, gave them specific,
concrete motivations, and explained how and why they pursued them. He wrote in the earliest days
of the novel as literary form, and his , widely considered the first
English novel, is a realist work in a number of respects compared to the romances and
picaresques from which the literary novel descended.

First, it simply claims
to be real. Robinson Crusoe's full title in the first edition is
"The Life  and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson
Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight...

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