introduccion

It is mandatory when talk about Robinson Crusoe to refer to other dimensions that this novel includes.
Perhaps the most evident and in our opinion consequence of as much as until here it has been said it is the prophetic condition of the story, in which they are exposed like in any other literary work the economic and social processes of their historical moment whose consequences on the human behaviour know to reflect Defoe with the technical perfection of a great journalist and with the vision of an openly early man at his time.
They are several the economists that have recognised in Robinson Crusoe to the economic man's more perfect symbol, result of the modern society. And it is certain that as much the money as the accounting have become central questions in our world. As Ian Watt indicates, in Robinson Crusoe, Crusoe establishes his relationships individually with the other ones and contrary to how writing, you proceeded in more primitive societies, in those that the relationships were oral, traditional and collective. Crusoe can turns himself as the symbol of the young English pre-capitalist whose sin in fact resides in not being given for satisfied with as much as he possesses and it is, and in trying to possess and to always be more. Their trips are those of so many and so many Englishmen that rush for sea to the discovery and exploitation of remote places during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. They are the promoters of the English commercialism and they end up gathering the enough capital as for, with the help of the new techniques, to allow the industrialization of the country during the 19th century.
The interests of Crusoe are mainly of economic order and so much his valuation of the other ones as their relationships with them is distinguished to be rigorously utilitarian. This way, for example, when the Portuguese captain offers to Crusoe enough money, this doesn't doubt to sell as slave to Xury, the Moor that has helped him to escape to him from the slavery, and to who has promised to want and to help. Also, in the moment in which he feels alone in the island and it desires company, he doesn't miss somebody to the one who to love or with the one who to communicate, that is to say, to a woman or a friend, but rather what truly wants is a slave. He considers this way perfect the relationship with Friday, with who can hardly communicate and of the one who mainly hears the peaceful and constant music of his eternal one "yes, Mister."

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