Defoe (1659 or 1660 ~ 173 1) is an English writer. Born in London. My father runs a slaughter business. Defoe only received secondary education and believed in Presbyterian sects that did not belong to the Anglican Church. By the time he was in his twenties, Defoe was already a decent businessman in London, running underwear, tobacco and alcohol industries and having been to the European continent. 1692 went bankrupt in business and had to make another living. He is a government intelligence officer, designing and developing business. He is also engaged in writing. In his early years, he was famous for writing political essays and satirical poems, opposing feudal autocracy and advocating the development of capitalist industry and commerce. 1698, he published "On Development", suggesting building roads, opening banks, collecting income tax, running fire and water insurance, running a madhouse and running a girls' school. 1702, he satirized the government's religious discrimination policy with irony in his political essay "Shortcuts to Eliminate Paganism". Because of his clever writing, he was not seen through at first. After being discovered, he was arrested and imprisoned for half a year and sentenced to cangue punishment. When he was subjected to flail punishment, he distributed his long poem Ode to Flail Punishment, satirizing the injustice of the law, and onlookers in London regarded him as a hero. From 1704 to 17 13, he presided over Review magazine for Harry, creating public opinion and collecting intelligence. 17 19 Defoe published his first novel Robinson Crusoe, which was well received by readers. Subsequently, Robinson Crusoe was published. 1720, he wrote Robinson Crusoe. Since then, he has published Captain singleton (1720), Moore Ferlande (1722), Captain Jack (1722), Roxana (1724) and Peter the Great.
Defoe was an important writer of English enlightenment literature in the18th century. Robinson Crusoe, his masterpiece, is a literary masterpiece with wide spread and great influence, showing a strong bourgeois enterprising spirit and enlightenment consciousness. This novel was written by Defoe inspired by a true story at that time. 1704 Scottish sailor Selcock quarreled with the captain at sea, was abandoned by the captain on a desert island, and was rescued to England four years later. Selcock didn't do any heroic deeds on a desert island. Robinson portrayed by Defoe is a brand-new person, a hero in the eyes of the middle and small bourgeoisie at that time, and the first idealized emerging bourgeois image in western literature. Robinson Crusoe is a successful realistic novel. The author writes a fictional scene with vivid details, which makes people feel as if they are there, making the story have a strong sense of reality. The language of the novel is concise and vivid, and the text is easy to understand. Although it is not mature in art, it has played a positive role in the development of English novels, and Robinson, the protagonist of the novel, has thus become a famous literary image in the history of European literature.