3. The history of writing the work of “Robinson Crusoe”

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………………..		3
MAIN PART :
1.	The autobiography of Daniel Defoe……………………………………….	5
2.	Daniel Defoe’s creative works………………………………………….....	11
3.	The history of writing the work of “Robinson Crusoe”…………….........
4.	Artistic –philosophical analysis of the image of Robinson in the work “Robinson Crusoe” ……………………………………………………......
5.	Friendship is a blessing………………………………………………….
CONCLUSION………………………………………………………………
REFERENCES………………………………………………………………

INTRODUCTION

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SH.M.Mirziyoyev
Daniel Defoe is the founder of the early realistic novel (with all these earlier developments of the novel, it is left to the eighteenth century to consolidate fiction as a form of literature, and from that time onwards there has been no cessation in novel-writing).He was a journalist, and in many ways, the father of modern English periodicals. He founded and conducted the first English newspaper “The Review” (1704 - 1713).
The first quarter of the 18th century witnessed a rise of interest in books about voyages and new discoveries. A true story that was described in one of Steele’s magazines, “The Englishman”, attracted Defoe’s attention. It was about Alexander Selkirk a Scottish sailor, who had quarrelled with his captain and was put ashore on a desert island near South America where he lived quite alone for four years and four months. In 1709 a passing vessel picked him up. Selkirk’s story interested Defoe so much that he decided to use it for a book. However, he made his hero, Robinson Crusoe, spend twenty-eight years on a desert island. Defoe regards the novel not as a work of the imagination, but as a “true relation”, and even when the element of fact decreases, he maintains the close realism of pseudo-fact. He writes with a knowledge of his audience, mainly the F’uritan middle classes, and selects themes which will have an immediate appeal to them.Superficially, these two conditions would appear to detract from his originality, but there exists in him a talent for organizing his material into a well-conducted narrative, with an effective eye for detail, in a style ever simple and welcoming, but never obtrusive.The combination of these qualities has given “Robinson Crusoe” its specific attractiveness and continuous interest in the book.At the beginning of the story the main character of the novel, Robinson Crusoe, is an inexperienced youth, a rather light- minded boy. Then he develops into a strong-willed man, able to fight against all the calamities of his unusual destiny. Being cast ashore on a desert island after the shipwreck, alone and defenseless, Crusoe tried to be reasonable in order to mas;ter his despondency . He knew that he should riot give way to self-pity or fear, or spend time in mourning for his lost companions.