I am an Island
The quest for the meaning of life has preoccupied philosophers, theologians and authors since the beginning of the written word. How does man find his place in the world, understand himself, and obtain peace with his God? Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe finds his answer only in solitude, in isolation from the distractions and static of the civilized world. The novel focuses on a single man, whose few companions are presented only as bit parts …
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…back, and instead of seeing it as he had when he arrived, a dismal, awful place, of punishment, he sees it as a beautiful thing. “I gave humble and hearty thanks that God had been pleased to discover to me, even that it was possible I might be more happy in this solitary condition, than I should have been in the liberty of
society” (82.)
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**Bibliography**
1.) Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe.
New York: Dover Thrift Editions, 1998.
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