introduccion

To the loving question Defoe dedicates it some few lines in which he makes know his marriage and the birth of his three children, and his attitude regarding these facts it is not in any moving moment but once again rigorously utilitarian. All this is very coherent because, as Weber comments, sex and love are one of the irrational factors of the human life, and undoubtedly they represent a great danger for the economic rationalism. With the result that the industrial capitalism tried to repress and control it.
Finally, another of the big successes of the novel, mainly keeping in mind that it goes to a public that inhabits a world already dominated ideologically by the economic capitalism, his ability in describing with all detail the different tasks that compose the human survival on the earth, tasks with which the most part of people have lost contact and deeply already miss in 18th century. There is no more to consider the enormous liking for the manual works or for the agricultural works and of gardening that wakes up in our civilization starting from the imposition of the division of the work. The compensation for the carried out task is without a doubt remote in the case of the specialized work, while, in a primitive society, the recompense is equivalent. By means of the precise descriptions that Crusoe offers from each one of the activities he is forced to carry out in the island to survive, he doesn't only provide from experiences to those who lack them, but rather he also dignifies the work, any work, in each one of its aspects. Instead of considering the work like a punishment, Puritanism foments the notion that the government of the divine gifts of material order is not only an obligation for man but a great responsibility. Crusoe proclaims this way the spiritual justification of the material exploitation. On the other hand, the thoroughness and the detail of the explanations that Defoe offers guide the novelistic genre in the sense that they demonstrate that the most rudimentary activities in an individual anyone was susceptible of becoming as regards art.
A last and important aspect exists in the figure of Robinson Crusoe, aspect that we have pointed previously and inevitably affects all individual. And it is that besides symbolising as much as until here we have mentioned, Crusoe represents an intent of comfort and redemption for the human being of

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