1. What are we talking about?
style, characteristics, realistic novel; it can be defined as; as for /as concerns the language…
Matter-of- fact narration
(REALISTIC NARRATION) Action and detailed facts; no thoughts and feelings
Flat characters
Fictional Autobiography
Travel journal
First person
He reports his every-day life
Language
Simple and clear

2. You can read it as…; there are 3 keys to interpretation…
The religious allegory  celebration of puritan values: self-reliance and labour. The journey is a path to redemption.
Desert Island= island of despair, the punishment for his sinhis departure from York;
A paradise (prize for his labour and his ability to overcome the difficulties)
The economic allegory  celebration of the middle-class mercantile values. He establishes a sort of civilisation that is similar to the society from which he comes.
Island= property; Friday= a servant to exploit
The imperialistic allegory  celebation of the colonial hero
Relationship btw Robinson and Friday: the indigenous inhabitants are regarded as «savages» to civilise

3. What are we talking about?
Children’s classic  simple prose and fantasy and imagination
Travel journal  recount of detailed facts and events
Satirical novel  attack on humankind vices
Each Journey a vice
1. First journey  The Lilliputians : cruelty, pettiness and provincialism
2. Second journey  the giants of Brobdingnag : human vanity and self-love
3. Third journey  The Laputans : futility of scientific abstract knowledge; pretensions of abstract intellectual thinking;
4. Fourth journey  The Houyhnhnms and the Yahoos : man is reduced to a disgusting species called yahoos submitted by the horses, the Houyhnhnms

4. What are we talking about?
Epistolary novel round character
A best-seller 1. the introspective genre; 2. women represented the majority of the reading public;
The meaning of the Virtue rewarded virginity and its value (low classes, upper classes)  marriage critics: an hypocrite behaviour? A social climber or a vituous and honest woman?