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Robinson Crusoe
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Written by Daniel Defoe and first published in 1719. Probably inspired by real-life castaways Pedro Serrano and Alexander Selkirk. Depending on who you ask, it might be the first true novel written in English.Robinson Crusoe is a classic novel about the title character's various adventures, the primary one being his shipwreck on a deserted island off the Caribbean coast of South America. After a tumultuous early life at sea, Crusoe is stranded on his famous island, where he learns important survival skills, fights off cannibal natives, saves a native prisoner (Friday, who becomes his loyal servant and friend) from being eaten, and so on until his dramatic rescue. It was an immediate success after its first release, which inspired a whole lot of imitators and stories using similar plots.There was also a sequel, The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, and a collection of essays/part 3, Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe, and well... since the story has become public domain, quite a few recycled versions IN SPACE! and the like. | |
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Noble Savage | |
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Noble Savage: Friday. Though completely subordinate to his master, Crusoe nevertheless admires Friday for his honesty and loyalty, as well as his devotion to his father. He also considers Friday to be a much better Christian than he himself is. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: Crusoe has one when he almost dies of disease, but eventually snaps out of it. | |
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Naked on Arrival | |
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Naked on Arrival: Friday, being an ignorant, wretched savage and all. The novel associates nudity with savagery to the extent that Crusoe refuses to ever go naked despite being all alone on a tropical island. Giving Friday clothes is one of Crusoe's first steps towards "civilizing" him. | |
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Darkest Africa | |
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Darkest Africa: During his pre-island days, when Crusoe is fleeing Moorish slavery in a boat along the African coast. | |
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The Last Man Heard a Knock... | |
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The Last Man Heard a Knock...: In a variation of this trope, Crusoe, after some twenty-odd years alone on his island, comes across a man's footprint in the sand. It's actually a genuinely creepy moment but ultimately paves the way for the introduction of Friday. | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Crusoe and Friday. | |
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I Owe You My Life | |
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I Owe You My Life: Friday becomes Crusoe's devoted servant after Crusoe saves him from being eaten by cannibals. | |
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White Man's Burden | |
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White Man's Burden: After rescuing Friday and taking him in, Crusoe views teaching him to become a good Christian convert as his duty. | |
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I'm a Humanitarian | |
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I'm a Humanitarian: The cannibals who briefly visit the island, and from whom Crusoe rescues Friday. | |
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Dated History | |
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Dated History: It's since been established that reports of cannibalism among the Carib Amerindians were hugely exaggerated, if not outright fabricated. Most of the myth seems to have its roots in the tribe's practice of keeping the bones of their ancestors in their homes so that their spirits would watch over them. Furthermore, there has been no archaeological or anthropological evidence of cannibalism ever found in the Caribbean.[1][2] | |
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Public Domain Character | |
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Public Domain Character: Well, it's been 300 years since it was first published, so this is to be expected. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: When you take the lesser-known sequel into account. He is eventually rescued and returns to civilization a rich man. But in the next book Crusoe finds he has trouble acclimating and Friday later dies. | |
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FilmOfTheBook | |
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Film of the Book: Several, beginning in the 1920s. | |
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Robinsonade | |
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Robinsonade: Trope Namer and originator of the genre. | |
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The Aloner | |
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The Aloner: Until he rescues Friday from the cannibals, Crusoe is alone as an inhabitant of his island. | |
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Deserted Island | |
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Deserted Island: One of the most famous examples. | |
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Improvised Clothes | |
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Improvised Clothes: Crusoe learns to make clothes out of goat hide. | |
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Plot Hole | |
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Plot Hole: There's a very famous one involving Crusoe swimming out to the ship naked... and then filling his pockets with biscuits. In the same scene he has to climb up over the side of the ship on a rope, but manages to get heavy boxes of goods down over the side onto his rickety raft without dropping them into the water. | |
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Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality | |
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Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality: There are no women, with the exception of Crusoe's widow friend at the end. At the end of the first book, Robinson describes how he would eventually send the remaining castaways some cows, sheep, hogs - and women. | |
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Captured by Cannibals | |
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Captured by Cannibals: One of Crusoe's biggest fears. He's even convinced that Friday's people will eat him if he ventures over to them, despite Friday's insistence otherwise. Actually happens to the Spaniard they later rescue. | |
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You No Take Candle | |
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You No Take Candle: Friday's English is pretty butchered and never improves, even after (in the sequel) he's been with Crusoe in England for several years. Also Xury, Crusoe's companion when he escapes the Moors. | |
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The Everyman | |
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The Everyman: Robinson himself. His character is studied as one of most prominent examples in Western literature. | |
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The Savage Indian | |
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The Savage Indian: The cannibals, being identified as Carib Indians. Includes Friday, until Crusoe reformed him. | |
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Paranoia Fuel | |
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Paranoia Fuel: Invoked when Crusoe finds the mysterious footprint. For all he knows, the person who left it is still on the island. He freaks out and even wonders if it might have been the devil. He ends up reinforcing his fortifications as a result. | |
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Made a Slave | |
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Made a Slave: Crusoe is briefly enslaved by the Moors, but eventually escapes. | |
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"Day of the Week" Name | |
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"Day of the Week" Name: Friday. | |
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The Cavalier Years | |
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The Cavalier Years: The time period. | |
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Happiness in Slavery | |
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Happiness in Slavery: Friday is really devoted to Crusoe. | |
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Sole Survivor | |
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Sole Survivor: Crusoe himself. Also Friday, who is the only one of the cannibals' prisoners to escape. | |
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Informed Flaw | |
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Informed Flaw: Friday is supposed to be from a savage, wretched cannibal tribe. Except we never see him as anything but handsome, kind, intelligent, brave, and loyal - hardly qualities anyone would connect with a "savage." | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: Cannibalism is this for Crusoe. However, he is barely able to restrain himself and eventually almost able to excuse the practice... until he sees a white man about to be eaten. | |
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Turn to Religion | |
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Turn to Religion: Crusoe spends his life being mostly indifferent to religion and God until he becomes stranded on the island. When he comes down with a fever, he awakens to religion. After Crusoe recovers, he often prays to God and thanks Him for giving him what he needs to survive. | |
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Protagonist Title | |
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" | |
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": With the exception of Friday, Xury and the mutineer Will Atkins, most characters are never given names. Instead we have "the Spaniard," "the captain," "Friday's father," "my wife," etc. | |
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Small, Secluded World | |
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Small, Secluded World: The island is essentially Crusoe's entire world until his rescue. | |
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Very Loosely Based on a True Story | |
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Very Loosely Based on a True Story: The Ur-Example of the trope. Having experience traveling through Spanish territories, the author likely based the novel in the tales of Pedro Serrano, who was marooned in the Caribbean, and Alexander Selkirk, who did so in the Juan Fernández Islands. | |
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Keet | |
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Keet: Friday, occasionally. Is prone to singing, dancing and jumping around when happy. | |
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Clothing Damage | |
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Clothing Damage: After nearly 10 years on the island, the clothes that Crusoe had been wearing began to wear out, forcing him to create new clothes from animal fur. | |
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Barbarian Tribe | |
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Barbarian Tribe: Played straight with the cannibals, but briefly inverted when Crusoe muses that the Spanish are themselves guilty of horrible atrocities in the New World to the extent that the cannibals almost seem innocent in comparison. But he quickly goes back to seeing them as worthless barbarians. In the second book, Robinson would come to see pretty much anyone who is not a Christian as a barbarian. Africans, Chinese, various other Asians, you name it. | |
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One-Steve Limit | |
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One-Steve Limit: Averted. Robinson encounters several people with the same first name, even another Robinson. | |
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