Friday (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Michel Tournier
- First Published: 1967
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Mythic
- Time of Work: 1759-1787
- Setting: Speranza, an island off the coast of Chile
- Genres: Long fiction, Mythological literature
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Native Americans or American Indians, Eighteenth century, Islands, Servants, Adventure, South America or South Americans, Puritans or Puritanism
- Locales: Islands, Chile
Characters Discussed
Robinson Crusoe, a Quaker mariner from York, England. At the age of twenty-two, as a tall, red-haired, slender young man, he leaves his family to seek a fortune in the New World, but this ambition is thwarted by a shipwreck off an island on the South American coast. Robinson is the only human survivor. At first, he rails against his fate and his haven. He names the island “Desolation,” and he builds a ship, the Escape, but cannot launch it. Robinson then experiences the first in a series of rebirths of personality and philosophy that occur during...
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