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1771. The event evoked great interest in Europe. Robinson Crusoe, who was created by Daniel Defoe, was a representative of bourgeoisie. An ideal hero, he advocated, was not satisfied with present conditions, but to develop, to work and to attain something through the effort. People can see the tradition of western civilization from him and his adventure spirit. The work praises people’s work spirit. The fiction opens up the way of English realistic fiction. Robinson Crusoe, who is the protagonist of The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures, is a person of stubborn, aggressive and firm. Because of his decision to go out to see the outside world and know it, he finally went out to be a sailor without the concession of his parents. He became a slave in the coast of Africa because of the attack by a group of pirates, but he later escaped there for he could not bear the hard life, and he was saved by a Portugal ship, and was carried to Brazil safely, where he attained a lot of money. But he was not satisfied with such property and designed to his dream to be on the way to sell slaves in Africa when somebody advised him to do so. Just because of it, he was flowed to an isolated island and was reduced to a lonely man without any company. Thank goodness, there were so much food, clothes and tools left in the ship which was wrecked on the coast. He could still be alive for those materials. During the period, Bible was his spirit support, and he built house, got rice, tamed sheep and made leather clothes by the fur of animals. After twenty eight years, he was saved by an English ship to England.
     1.3 Brief Introduction of Modernity
     Modernity is a derivative of modern, which can be syntactically interpreted as a term of history, and refers to the period that spans from the end of medieval period or the beginning of the Renaissance to present in the western world. Because western modern social structures, politics, economy, science and cultures all started from the Enlightenment Movement, “the modernity, to some extent, is a way to express the spirit of Enlightenment.”(Zhou Xian, 2001: 5)
 
 Modernity is a contradictory concept. It is good, because it is the European Enlightenment scholars’ philosophic design about the future society. On this premise, the modernity is rationality, it is Hegel’s Zeitgeist; it represents unprecedented great changes logic in human society. It is bad, because it gives us the dramatic changes constantly, and implant the spirit of anxiety into the human life at all levels, including literature, art and theories. In this context, modernity has become the pronoun of ‘crisis and confusion’. (Zhao Yifan, 2003: 54).
 
 The most important achievement of the modernity is that it smashed the bondage of medieval Christian’s theology, and spread the concepts of rationality and knowledge of science. Francis Bacon’s concept of “knowledge is power” was elevated to a belief soon and the religion—metaphysics was replaced by rationality not long after. That’s an age full of principle with which men are confident of settling any problems. Though modernity was warmly welcomed by the public as a new hero, the serious thinkers had never failed to cast an eye on the problems of it. Hegel, Karl, Marx, Nietzsche, Web and Chimil were among the great thinkers who reflected on modernity and made severe criticisms, such as distorted 本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。