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its condition of relentless solitude, to which nobody can escape and the individualism Post-Renaissance fomented. The redemption Defoe postulates is possible thanks to the privilege of the freedom that is indissoluble partner of the solitude in the case of Crusoe. The situation in which Crusoe is unwrapped becomes a hymn to the total freedom whose only compensation is the total solitude.
But, as very well the critic has observed, in his Crusoe's description, Defoe forgets two fundamental factors: in the first place he neglects the fact that all economic development needs of a social lattice to survive, which would disable the freedom that so much satisfies Crusoe. As for the defense of the solitude, Defoe neglects and contradicts the psychological consequences of such a situation that, like we know, it would drive to the individual without a doubt to desperation and madness.
In these their more complex aspects, Robinson Crusoe is a novel more intensely dominated by the imagination that for the pure observation until the point of being able to it to almost consider an utopia.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
- Biographies:
MOORE, J.R., Daniel Defoe: Citizen of the Modern World, Chicago, 1958.
SUTHERLAND, J., Defoe, 1938, rev. Methuen, 1976.

- Critiques:
ELLIS, F. H., Twentieth Century Interpretations of Robinson Crusoe, Prentice may, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1969.
NOVAK, M. E., Defoe and the Nature of Man, Londres, 1963.
ROGERS, Pat, Defoe, The Critical Heritage, Londres, 1972.
SHINAGEL, M., Daniel Defoe and Middle.Class Gentility, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968.
STARR, G. A., Defoe and Spiritual Autobiography, Princeton, 1965.
SUTHERLAND, J., Daniel Defoe. A Critical Study, Harvard, 1971.
WATT, I., The Rise of the Novel. Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding, Londres, 1976.

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