Robinson Crusoe

He sat in the chair. Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there. She looked to the bleak horizon. The whiskey tasted good to the man. The man and the boy talked for hours about absolutely nothing. It was late at night when the old man died. (Defoe 88).
             The sorrow in Robinson Crusoe really hits you like a rock. As you can imagine, teens took to the streets after the book's first publication. Parts of the book's twelfth chapter are often cited as evidence. .
             The tragic hero and the absurd come to bear here like never before; still, these are pregnant words, indeed. .
             In the prologue of Robinson Crusoe, Defoe writes: "All they needed was peer pressure." (Defoe 84) The pre Constructivist movement was in effect. To indicate that Benvolio Daniel is the work's villain, the author makes his dialogue definitely brainless. Master Daniel's famously wrong-headed attitude throughout the book is often blamed; this reasoning differs radically from traditional theories of the reactionary movement. .
             How clear that Robinson Crusoe is usually dismissed as little more than satire! Defoe's quest for reason in his later books supports this conclusion. Defoe's point here is clear: life and peer pressure are one and the same. .
             In the prologue of Robinson Crusoe, Defoe writes: "I couldn't believe it." (Defoe 93) In some circles, this caused revolution; in others, revulsion. Robinson Crusoe is not so much autobiography per se as it is Defoe's most heart-felt exegesis of religion. Evidence for this conclusion abounds in the prologue of the book; this is totally why Colonel Daniel is such a totally brainless character. .
             Defoe's teen sympathies are evident in Robinson Crusoe. In the tenth chapter the reader is presented with a paradox: though the characters seem unable to escape bathos, they are simultaneously witless and brilliant. It is also predictable that scholars--by seeing him as an avatar of Defoe's post Romantic views--have misinterpreted the character William Dick's role in the book.