On Robinson’s Image in Robinson Crusoe 崔 Abstract Robinson Crusoe, written by Daniel Defoe, is an adventure novel with the themes of the navigational adventure and the exploitation of an isolated island. This novel mainly illustrates Robinson Crusoe desire adventurous and challenging life runs away from home and sets out to sea. A frightful storm changes the course of the ship and he is wrecked off the coast of an uninhabited island. He survives for as long as 28 years on the island. In this paper the author tries to analyze Robinson’s image from three aspects: Robinson is an adventurer, a practitioner and a colonist. Introduction Daniel Defoe is a famous writer of Britain and be regard as “the father of British stories”. Defoe is chiefly remembered as the author of Robinson Crusoe, his masterpiece. The novel is based on a real fact. He embellished a sailor’s story with many incidents of his own imagination. So the novel reads like a true story. The character of Robinson Crusoe is representative of the English bourgeoisie at the earlier stages of its development. He is most practical and exact, always religious and at the same time mindful of his own profit. Robinson every voyage is connected with some commercial enterprise. He owns a plantation where coloured slaves are exploited. Robinson assumes the role of a master. Here lies colonization in germ. 1. An Adventurer Robinson’s father designs his son as a lawyer, but the young man has set his mind on becoming a sailor. When Robinson is 19, he runs away from home and sets out to sea. After many perils and adventures on the sea, he settles down in Brazil. But the call of the sea is so strong that he embarks on another voyage to Africa. Although his journey is full of dangerous but he still wants to voyage. When he was wrecked off an uninhabited island lonely he still survives through his hard work. He save a man named Friday by Robinson, proves to be a clever young Negro and becomes Robinson’s true and faithful companion. “Anyone would think that in this state of complicated good fortune ,I was past running any more hazards; and so indeed I had been, if other circumstances had concurred, but I was inured to a wandering life, had no family, not many relations, nor, however rich.” That’s to say life, money, his wife, son, nephew all of this can’t stop his step that to adventure. For the reasons presented above show that Robinson is full of courage to do something that he wants. He fait for his father his family and his fate. In order to survive he struggle whit nature. So he is a great adventurer. 2. A Practitioner When Robinson was young he set his mind on becoming a sailor. Through his father makes stand against but he run away home eventually. Robinson builds a raft and tries by all means to carry to shore the store of necessities on the ship, which consist of bread, rice, barley, corn, planks, lead and gunpowder, an axe and two saws. From then on he lives all alone on the island. He set up a tent. He plants barley and corn, and harvests crops in time. Robinson’s will-power in bettering his living conditions is amazing: strong winds, rains and earthquakes do not stop him from attaining his once set resolution and plans. He explores the island, hunts, makes clothes from the hides of the killed animals, gathers wild grapes and dries them into raisins, domesticates wild goats, smokes and salts meat. Grown wise with experience in labour, he makes a living on the island by self-reliance. He is a wiser of life, he know how to life a better life, he create everything he wants by his hands. So he isn’t a dreamer but a practitioner. He became the owner of the island for he didn’t find any occupied mark. Since then, he began to exercise his rights to the island. He set up a stronghold quickly and builds defenses. He captured animals, built house, picked grapes and plant grains on the island. He felt he was a king of the island. He tried his best to protect his territory. 3. A Colonist Though Robinson labours for his own existence, yet as soon as a native makes his appearance on the island, Robinson assumes the role of a master. “Master” is the 本文来源：https://www.wddqw.com/doc/835b9994f705cc17552709f0.html