( ROBINSON CRUSOE AND MOLL FLANDERS )

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 other's religious ideas himself he was a good puritan at the same time.He'd 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;

And 'twill be found ,upon examination,

The latter has the largest congregation.

(from The True-Born Englishman,1701)

Daniel Defoe's most famous novel with the full title is The Life and strange and surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Crusoe ends up on a desert island.With only a few supplies from the ship he builds a house , boat and a new life.His island is not wholly

Robinson Crusoe is a Biblical or moral tale.A perfect example of Defoe's mentality.Society makes your moral bad.If you are alone it's much better for a moral and religious life.All wickedness stems from society and everything turns out to be great after finding God at the end of the book.

"..But there are temptations which it is not in the power of Human Nature to resist.."and especially she proves once more her weakness while she is together with the man who is loved most by her but did not get married with :

"..I had rather delivered up to the savages, and be devoured alive, than fall into the merciless claws of the priests, and be carried into the inquisition.."

"..The preacher left me in the greatest confusion imaginable, and all that night I lay awake; and now I began to say my prayers, which I had scarce done before since my last husband's death, or from a little while after; and truly I may well call it, saying my prayers, for I was in such a confusion, and had such horror upon my mind, that though I cried and repeated several times the ordinary expression of, Lord Have Mercy upon Me; I never brought myself to any sense of being a miserable sinner..."

Daniel Defoe repeats himself here and makes his heroine regretted and religious.As the time of death approaches, she begins to think about God and religion deeply.At first she refuses the Priest and thinks that he's stupid but later on finds him right.

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