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tension among the spontaneous thing and that projected is decided.
Anyway, although Robinson Crusoe was inspired by other stories, Defoe transforms Crusoe into a new character and of a great verisimilitude. This is comprehensible keeping in mind the temperament of Defoe. As few biographies, Defoe's biography denotes before anything an innate easiness to adapt to people and situations until the point of losing his identity. It is almost a vocation in him that desire for double game. Sign of this are also some of their writings in which, for example, The Poor Man's Plea, 1698, he adopts the voice of a humble citizen, or in The Shortest Way with Dissenters, 1702, he adopts the voice a high clergyman of the Anglican Church. In the case of Robinson Crusoe so perfect belongs the adaptation from the author to his character that the identification between both characters became in its day one of the common places for the critics. It seems comprehensible that the truthfulness that Crusoe acquires is partly due to that Robinson Crusoe is made up with many elements of Defoe, although another point one would have to affirm on purpose of Moll Flanders; for example. But it is extremely imprecise transforming these likeness into identities, since they are many of the features of Defoe's biography that are radically inapplicable to Robinson Crusoe.
It doesn't fit doubt that the first responsible that during a lot of time he has been carried out this critical simplification is the same Defoe who in Serious Reflections during the Life of Robinson Crusoe suggests that the history of Crusoe is an allegory of his own life. It is possible that being like Defoe was of puritan convictions, felt the necessity to justify a literary work carried out primarily with ends guided to entertain and to have a good time, and was forced to interpret his work and his own life from a moral perspective. In many aspects Defoe is very different from Robinson Crusoe. To check it there is not more than to compare the attitudes of both in front of many questions, some as significant and critical as can be the slavery, the woman's position in the social life, the importance of the family for the individual. And they are not only different great part of his ideas. Defoe doesn't share the elementary things of Robinson Crusoe, and his temperament is not prosaic as his invented character's one. Although, as Shakespeare, Defoe didn't come from the noble class, but

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