Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe was a great success partly because the protagonist was a real middle-class hero. Discuss Cr

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问题 Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe was a great success partly because the protagonist was a real middle-class hero. Discuss Crusoe, the protagonist of the novel, as an embodiment of the rising middle-class virtues in the mid-eighteenth century England.

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答案(l)Social background: The eighteenth Century England witnessed the growing importance of the bourgeois or middle-class. a. The Industrial Revolution. b. The expansion of international markets. c. Values/virtues/moral standards different from those of the feudal aristocratic class—courageous, full of energy, hard working, practical , resourceful, self-reliant, etc. d. Literature should give/provide a realistic presentation of the life of the common people; it should meet the demand/interest of the middle-class people. (2)Robinson Crusoe embodies the virtue of the middle class people. a. Crusoe as an adventurous/courageous man full of energy and courage (example from the text). b. Crusoe as a practical man(example from the text). c. Crusoe as a resourceful/self-reliant man (example from the text). d. Crusoe as a patient/persistent man(example from the text).

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