Exploration of Values in Robinson Crusoe, Odyssey, Tempest and Gulliver

Exploration of Values in Robinson Crusoe, The Odyssey, The Tempest and Gullivers Travels In the novels and epics of Robinson Crusoe, The Odyssey, The Tempest and Gullivers Travels the reader encounters an adventurer who ends up on an island for m either years and then returns back home. These four stories have some other point in common they are all crotchetyly popular. on that point is something very appealing to the popular imagination about such narratives. In this essay I pass on explore the day-dream of life (or at least some aspects of it) which this novel holds out to us and which is significantly diametric from the others, no matter how apparently similar the narrative form faculty be. Very simply put, these four stories have a similar prevalent narrative structure which goes something same(p) this (a) a member of a sophisticate European partnership is accidentally cast adrift into the wilderness, where everything is unfamiliar and in that respect are no apparen t aids of normal society (b) the combatant must adjust to this strange environment, find some means of act with the physical and the psychological dislocation (c) the admirer must find a way off the island, and (d) the hero must reintegrate himself into the society from which he unwillingly was alienated. The casting adrift can happen in any number of ways. Typically it is the result of a shipwreck, a mutiny, or a misadventure of some kind. Adapting to the new environment may or may not involve adjusting to the people who live there. It almost always will require the hero to cope with a very different vision of nature, and he will be forced to confront the fact that in this place things run very differently from what he is used to. This, in turn, may produce al... ...t what really matters and what does not. Thus, adventures with isolatos are, or can easily become, an exploration of moral set forced into the awareness of the hero by an unusual circumstance. And this developm ent brings with it inevitably a criticism or a arrest of the social values (or some of them) of the society of which he is a representative, whose values he brings with him to the island, and to which he returns. Prosperos rejection of the island and of the magic he so loves, like Odysseus rejection of Calypso for his own Penelope, is not just a manifestation of the heros moral nature it is also a confirmation of reliable values in the society to which they are returning. Gullivers rejection of European society upon his return at the end of the fourth voyage is, in big part, a very severe criticism of the moral laxity of Europe.