The Man who Wrote Robinson Crusoe: Daniel Dafoe
Not Just the Tudors
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Defoe's Pro Style
There isn't much beauty, either asthetic or moral beauty, in the story. It's given as this kind of factor objective account why you think defoe chose to write it in this way? If he's passing it off as the genuine account of someone who's lived on a desert island all alone for 28 years, then this is perhaps how he would write. But i think you can also view two aspects of defoe's own character. He did have a puritan outlook. He was suspicious of metaphor and similaly, because that wasn't actually speaking the truth. The other very interesting thing about the way that defo writes though, is that he writes as if he doesn
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