… range from religious items 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 … attracted the attention of artists, film-makers, communication media, as well as the common reader. Crusoe’s accurate exploration of the island, his cultivation of the land, and his later impositions of his codes of belief and action on … about God’s enigmatic choice of not eradicating evil implies that t he novel is also a theodicy of sorts, i.e. an exploration of why a perfectly good, almighty, and all-knowing God permits evil. 11 Defoe is, in fact, a non-skeptical …