The Ethics Of Robinson Crusoe's Desert Island Survival

Daniel Defoe was a famous British novelist, occupied an important position in the history of the 18th worldwide literature, and often called "the first English novelist." Of his life he created a lot of works, involving political essays, the economy works, and created comments on other aspects. He had a pivotal position in the history of English literature by his novel "Robinson Crusoe". There were also four wonderful novels: "Captain Singleton", "Moore·Flanders," "Colonel Jack", "Roxana" "Robinson Crusoe" became a best-selling adventure novel just appeared. Almost everyone had this book at that time. This novel's ideological and artistic works caught the researchers'attention.This article analyzes the ethics in "Robinson Crusoe", Robinson was reduced to a desert island with no human habitation from the human society, and finally returned the human society. It analyzes the transformation from the social environment to the natural environment. It focuses on the ethical natural environment which Robinson confronted after living on a desert island. And analyzes Robinson how to adapt the environment, establish a self-sufficient kingdom, and gradually establish a new social and ethical environment on a desert island. The study of Robinson'desert island survival is mostly from the bourgeois entrepreneurial spirit and the island literature, starting with an ethical approach in literary criticism is also rare.This essay is divided into three chapters. The first chapter analyzes the island environment which Robinson confronted with no one exist, and Robinson how to overcome the initial fear on the island, and actively adapted to the desert island with the environment, the struggle with the island biological for existence. The second chapter analyzes Robinson's change from animal to the human body. Robinson's animal nature was obvious before he drift aged to island. Going against the father and son ethics, pursuing of wealth fanatically, such a break to the harmony and balance brought Robinson to the desert island. On the island, Robinson slowly realized the humanity reversion, rational back to him. The third chapter focused on analysis of how to build a desert island with Robinson's ethical society, using religion to establish a common ethical value, with the contract to restrain the person on the island. The religion Robinson just believed in was a "practical" religion, a religion for our own use. And contract played a significant role in Robinson's life, interpersonal relationships had no position, even friendship and love was also a contract portfolio.