Robinson’s and Friday’s Island [ Nature ]
… to self-respect and discipline. Places > Nature Mots-clés Cosmopolitanism Deism Enlightenment Exploration Freemasonry Religion Solitude It is well known that the Island in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719) is one of the key-elements that … had been occasion of it, for me. It was remarkable too, we had but three subjects, and they were of three different religions. My man Friday was a Protestant, his father was a pagan and a cannibal, and the Spaniard was a Papist: however, … acceptance of a universe beyond comprehension, reflects dilemmas that persist throughout Defoe’s later writings on religion’. In a way, Crusoe is always discovering himself when he encounters others. There is a political element to this …
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