Discuss the psychological development of the protagonist
in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe.
Robinson
Crusoe is as much the story of a man’s psychological development and spiritual
progress as a tale of adventure in the physical sense. It tells the gripping
story of the hardships and afflictions which the protagonist experiences, but
it also gives us an engrossing account of the thoughts , emotions , and moods
of the protagonist at various stages in his career .
If this novel had been no more than a story of exciting and even sensational adventures, it would not have been the masterpiece of fiction which it undoubtedly is. Crusoe is blessed with good fortune in brazil where he becomes fairly prosperous. He finds himself in that middle station of life which his father has strongly recommended to him. But he doesn’t feel content with this middle station of life. He now wishes to pursue a “ rash and immoderate desire to rise faster than the nature of the thing admitted .”
