History Literature / RobinsonCrusoe

* AdaptedOut: In the original book; Crusoe sells a boy into slavery, enslaves many people on his plantation in {{UsefulNotes/Brazil}}, and is wrecked on the island as his ship was on a voyage to pick up still more people in {{UsefulNotes/Africa}} to enslave in the Americas. All of this has been removed from many of the later stage play and movie adaptations of the story, even those that otherwise keep the original setting, both to focus on the TropeCodifier deserted island survival scenario and to make Crusoe something other than a VillainProtagonist.

* AdaptedOut: In the original book; Crusoe sells a boy into slavery, enslaves many people on his plantation in Brazil, and is wrecked on the island as his ship was on a voyage to pick up still more people in Africa to enslave in the Americas. All of this has been removed from many of the later stage play and movie adaptations of the story, even those that otherwise keep the original setting, both to focus on the TropeCodifier deserted island survival scenario and to make Crusoe something other than a VillainProtagonist.

''Robinson Crusoe'' is a classic novel about the title character's various adventures, the primary one being his shipwreck on a deserted island off the Caribbean coast of UsefulNotes/SouthAmerica. After a tumultuous early life at sea, Crusoe is stranded on his famous island, where he learns important survival skills, fights off cannibal natives, saves a native prisoner (Friday, who becomes his loyal servant and friend) from being eaten, and so on until his dramatic rescue. It was an immediate success after its first release, which inspired a whole lot of imitators and stories using [[{{Robinsonade}} similar plots]].

''Robinson Crusoe'' is a classic novel about the title character's various adventures, the primary one being his shipwreck on a deserted island off the Caribbean coast of South America. After a tumultuous early life at sea, Crusoe is stranded on his famous island, where he learns important survival skills, fights off cannibal natives, saves a native prisoner (Friday, who becomes his loyal servant and friend) from being eaten, and so on until his dramatic rescue. It was an immediate success after its first release, which inspired a whole lot of imitators and stories using [[{{Robinsonade}} similar plots]].

* AdaptedOut: In the original book; Crusoe sells a boy into slavery, enslaves many people on his plantation in Brazil, and is wrecked on the island as his ship was on a voyage to pick up still more people in Africa to enslave in the Americas. All of this has been removed from many of the later stage play and movie adaptations of the story, even those that otherwise keep the original setting, both to focus on the TropeCodifier desert island survival scenario and to make Crusoe something other than a VillainProtagonist.

* AdaptedOut: In the original book; Crusoe sells a boy into slavery, enslaves many people on his plantation in Brazil, and is wrecked on the island as his ship was on a voyage from Brazil to pick up still more people in Africa to enslave in the Americas. All of this has been removed from many of the later stage play and movie adaptations of the story, even those that otherwise keep the original setting.

* AdaptedOut: In the original book; Crusoe sells a boy into slavery, enslaves many people on his plantation in Brazil, and is wrecked on the island as his ship was on a voyage from Brazil to pick up still more people in Africa to enslave in the Americas. This has been removed from many of the later stage play and movie adaptations of the story, even those that otherwise keep the original setting.

* SaltAndPepper: Crusoe and Friday, sort of. Of course, Friday is not black in the original book but is often [[PopCulturalOsmosis believed to be]], thanks to frequent {{Race Lift}}s. Still, as a straitlaced, rather stodgy white man with his more vibrant, flamboyant brown sidekick, Crusoe and Friday can probably be considered the UrExample of this trope.

* ButNotTooBlack: Some critics (including J.M. Coetze) have noted that Crusoe describes Friday as having generally European features: small nose, thin lips, a brighter skin tone than "other natives of America," and overall "all the sweetness and softness of a European in his countenance, too."

* LongTitle: ''The Life and strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, where-in all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself''.

Written by Creator/DanielDefoe and first published in 1719. [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory Probably inspired by]] real-life castaway Alexander Selkirk. Depending on who you ask, it might be the first true novel written in English.

--> As soon as I saw the place I called for Friday, and asked him if he knew where he was? He looked about a little, and presently clapping his hands, cried,"Oh yes, Oh there, Oh yes, Oh there!" pointing to our old habitation, and fell dancing and capering like a mad fellow; and I had much ado to keep him from jumping to the sea to swim ashore to the place. "(From the sequel, when they return to the island.)"

* PlotHole: There's a very famous one involving Crusoe swimming out to the ship naked... and then filling his pockets with biscuits.

* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The UrExample of the trope.

There was also a sequel, ''The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe'', and a collection of essays/part 3, ''Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe'', and well... since the story has become public domain, quite a few recycled versions {{IN SPACE}} and the like.

* SaltAndPepper: Crusoe and Friday, sort of. Of course, Friday is not black in the original book but is often [[PopCulturalOsmosis believed to be]], thanks to frequent [[RaceLift Race Lifts]]. Still, as a straitlaced, rather stodgy white man with his more vibrant, flamboyant brown sidekick, Crusoe and Friday can probably be considered the UrExample of this trope.

Written by Daniel Defoe and first published in 1719. [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory Probably inspired by]] real-life castaway Alexander Selkirk. Depending on who you ask, it might be the first true novel written in English.

* PublicDomainCharacter: Well, it's been nearly 300 years since it was first published, so this is to be expected.

* ClothingDamage: After nearly 10 years on the island, the clothes that Crusoe had been wearing began to worn out, forcing him to create new clothes from animal fur.

''Robinson Crusoe'' is a classic novel about the title character's various adventures, the primary one being his shipwreck on a deserted island off the Caribbean coast of South America. After a tumultuous early life at sea, Crusoe is stranded on his famous island, where he learns important survival skills, fights off cannibal natives, saves a native prisoner (Friday, who becomes his loyal servant and friend) from being eaten, and so on until his dramatic rescue. It was an immediate success after its first release, which inspired various sequels and a whole lot of imitators and stories using [[{{Robinsonade}} similar plots]].

* MadeASlave: Crusoe is briefly enslaved by the Moors. Eventually escapes.

* BittersweetEnding: When you take the lesser-known sequel into account. [[spoiler:He is eventually rescued and returns to civilization a rich man. But in the next book Crusoe finds he has trouble accommodating and Friday later dies.]]

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%%* RecycledINSPACE: One of the many ripoffs/clones/whatever.

** Although it's stated that he searches for, finds and takes most of the crews clothes. And some editions note that at the time Naked could also refer to only wearing the underclothes, which may have had a pocket or two in.

* SlidingScaleOfGenderInequality: Very much a Level 1, with the exception of Crusoe's widow friend at the end. At the end of the first book, Robinson describes how he would eventually send the remaining castaways some cows, sheep, hogs - and women.