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    Defoe's Robinson Crusoe-mere fiction or allegory?--need help!!!

    Hi friends,
    I need your view of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Is it the allegory of defoe's life, a religous writing or a book on economics?
    I want you to reflect upon it and give me some critical views on the book.
    Weep no more,nor sigh, nor groan,
    Sorrow calls no time that's gone:
    Violets pluck'd, the sweetest rain
    Makesnot fresh nor grow again.
    Trim thy locks, look cheerfully;
    Fate's hid ends eyes cannot see.
    ----John Fletcher

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    It is said that the novel is an allegory and symbolism of many things. http://www.shmoop.com/robinson-crusoe/sea-symbol.html

    For me it is about nature and solitude to which the main character is forced, not chosen by his own will.

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