Background of Robinsocruso

The novel was written by Defoe inspired by a true story at the time. In September 1704, a Scottish sailor named Alexander Selkirk was rescued by Captain Woods Rogers after living on a desert island for four years and four months after an argument with the captain, who abandoned him in the Atlantic Ocean. Based on the legend of Selkirk, Defoe devoted his years of experience and experience at sea to the characters, and made full use of his rich imagination for literary processing, so that "Robinson" not only became the hero of the small and medium-sized bourgeoisie at that time, but also became the first idealized emerging property in Western literature.