Outline
Topic: The prominent characteristic traits of Robinson Crusoe
Introduction
Rationale
Method of the study
Social, historical, literature background
Design of the study:
Introduction
Discussion
Conclusion
DISCUSSION
Background of Daniel Defoe
Summary the context
The prominent characteristic traits of Robinson Crusoe
1. Analyse Robinson’s traits:
-He was the man of labor : industrious, untiring…:
+His perseverance in spending months making a canoe, and in practicing
pottery, making until he gets it right. Additionally, his resourcefulness in
-building a house, goat stable, growing grape arbor….
.“ I made a table and a chair” (p40)
.“Time was taken up in the weighty Affair of making a Cage for my
Pool” (P68)
He learned to make pottery “I made, how many of them fell in, and how
many fell out, the Clay not being stiff enough to bear its own Weight; how
many crack’d by the over violent Heat of the Sun, being set out too hastily;
anh how many fell in pieces with only removing, as well before as after they
were dry’d”(P.73)
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But he never gave up “ tho’ I miscarried so much in my Design for large
Pots, yet I made several smaller things with better success, such as little
round pot, flat Dishes, Pitchers and Pipkins, and any things my hand turn’d

was probable I should wver have been in any other Particular State in the
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World; and with this Thought I was going to give Thanks to God for
bringing me to this Place.” (p.69)
+He managed to make a fortune dispite a 28 years absence and event left
his island with a nice coletion of gold
-he noted on dating events the day he set his foots on this island.
. “ After I had been there about Ten or Twelve Days, it came into my
Thoughts, that I should lose my Reckoning of Time for want of Books and
Pen and Ink, and should even forget the Sabbath Days from the working
Days; but to prevent this I cut it with my Knife upon a large Post, in Capital
Letters, and making it into a great Cross I set it up on the Shore where I first
landed, I came on Shore here on the 30
th
of Sept. 1659.” (para.4,p37)
-Crusoe was a religious man: he prayed before he did any work.:
. “ In the Morning I took the Bible, and beginning a the New Testament, I
began seriously to read it, and impos’d upon myself to read while every
Morning and every Night, not tying my self to the Number of Chapters, but
as long as my Thoughts shou'd engage me: It was not long after I set
seriously to this Work, but I found my Heart more deeply and sincerely
affected with the Wickedness of my past Life: The Impression of my Dream
reviv'd, and the Words, All these Things have not brought thee to Repentance
(para.5.p58)
. “I threw down the Book, and with my Heart as well as my Hands lifted
up to Heaven, in a Kind of Extasy of Joy, I cry'd out aloud, Jesus, thou Son
of David, Jesus, thou exalted Prince and Saviour, give me Repentance!”
. Once Crusoe discovered God, the next step was his attempt to force his
newly-discovered God on Friday
-His emotion life was so poor: