Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe was born in London in 1660, he was the son of non-conformist, middle-class parents. The non-conformists or Dissenters were Protestant sects that opposed the official state religion of Anglicanism and consequently suffered persecution. At the age of fourteen his parents sent him to the famous academy at stoke Newngton kept by Charles Morton, where most of the students were Dissenters.The first decade of 1700's marked a period of increased political involvement for Defoe; he published perhaps his best-known verse, "The True Born English Man" (1701). In this work he satirized the prejudice of his fellow citizens and declared that the English were a race of Mongrels, bred from the castaways of Europe. In 1692 Defoe filled for bankruptcy, his debts mounting to over 17,000 pounds; Defoe was haunted throughout his life by unsatisfied debt collectors. He began to experiment with realistic dialogue, setting and characterization in The Family Structor (1715) one of his many books on religious and moral conduct. He was called the father of English Novel, his use of the first-person narrator and the development of his protagonists often undercut his normal themes, resul
We also can note that Defoe imposes his point of view of view Marriage in a world dominated by fools of the opposite sex. Defoe seems at first glance to be using her as a sort of a mouth-pierce for his own far-right opinions on the consequences of ill considered marriages. As Daniel Defoe wrote a few years later, hasty marriage is a forecast of hell: "The strife breaks out intensively; the contention, the contradiction, and all the little thwarting and waspishness, which lay the foundation of eternal discord; these all, like weeds, grow and spread under the decaying plan called love, still at last they check and smother it entirely, and leave the family a kind of hell in miniature. Roxana hells come after her first husband deserts her, and in her situation seems almost comic. "Never, ladies, marry a fool" she warns for unhappy, but with a fool, you must". Her husband does heed Roxana's warnings to withdraw from business to avoid bankruptcy. Despite the uncertainty of Defoe's intentions most contemporary critics agree that in Roxana novel the author was writing an unfavorable critique of capitalistic society, and not simply stressing the virtues of a moral life. Roxana was De
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