Morality and Religion in Defoes Robinson Crusoe and Moll...

Daniel Defoe was born in 1660.Daniel received a very good education as his father hoped he would become a minister , but Daniel was not interested.His family were Dissenters, Presbyterians to be precise, and those sects were being persecuted a bit at this time so maybe Daniel had the right idea.He was always very tolerant of others religious ideas himself he was a good puritan at the same time.Hed pretty much against the ministry,though he wrote and spoke in favor of the Dissenters all his life.However being a religious man he sometimes critisized Christianty .Somehow he reflected his beliefs in his books,writings. Wherever god erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there;†¦show more content†¦According to Defoe crowd takes people away from basic realities of life.We can see this thought in both book of him, Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders .In Robinson Crusoe when he is in England he doesnt think of God and religion much, society makes him irreligious and careless.However when he decieds to go far and starts his journey , a transformation comes into being in his philosophy.The time that he spends in the island supplies the most effective enviroment him to reform his thoughts and beliefs.As we see in the following quotation: ..What is this earth and sea, of which I have seen so much?Whence is it produced?And what am I, and all the other creatures, wild and tame ,human and brutal, whence are we?Sure we are all made by some secret Power that could make all things, must certainly have power to guide and direct them... He has his own way of judging.He real izes some religious facts but never submits them blindly.Robinson Crusoe as a man who comes from typical English society and modern world combines the facts of society of his time, its moral understanding and the facts of pure faith that he found himself.Doing this synthesis he sometimes contradicts modern worlds vision therefore critisizes its policy, such as by saying: ..the policy of making a secretShow MoreRelatedBiography of Daniel Defoe1105 Words   |  4 Pages Daniel Defoe, though faced with many struggles as a writer, changed normal English literary styles of writing. Defoe wrote a novel, Robinson Crusoe and was the father of the English novel. As William Hazlitt put it, â€Å"Book making in the hands of a dull man is the worst and degrading of all drudgeries; in the hands of Daniel Defoe it changes character and becomes the noblest and most delightful of all possible occupations.† (7) Though many argue that Daniel Defoe was unable to fullyRead MoreWe Must Keep Daniel Defoe in the Literary Cannon1235 Words   |  5 PagesDaniel Defoe born in or around 1660 experienced the most complex disastrous events in England before he was seven. In 1664 a Dutch fleet attacked London, in 1665 the plague took seventy thousand lives and in 1666 the great fire destroyed Defoe’s neighborhood expect for three houses, one being his. Born to a family of dissenters a class of people who refused to conform to the Church of England, Defoe was hindered with obstacles from the start. Receiving his education from a dissenter’s school and