For Brief Information Of Daniel Defoe

1. PRESENTATION BY,..
HIRAL VAITHA
HARDI VHORA
PRESENTED TO,..
MS.VAIDEHI HARIYANI

2. SUBJECT:-
(1660-1731)

3. # EARLY LIFE:
BORN:- 1660
LONDON
ENGLAND
DIED:- 24TH APRIL,
1731
LONDON
ENGLAND

4. [WHO WAS HARD WORKING AND FAIRLY
PROSPEROUS TALLOW CHANDLER]
#HIS FATHER WAS "JAMES "
# BY HIS MIDDLE 30s DANIEL WAS CALLING
HIMSELF "DEFOE" WHICH WAS HIS
ORIGINAL FAMILY NAME
# HE BELONGS TO THE AUGUSTAN AGE
(1700-1745)

5. NOVELIST PAMPHLETEER JOURNALIST
MERCHANT SPY
SON OF TRADER
HE WAS,...

6. # HIS CONTEMPORARIES WERE,..
• ALEXANDER POPE
• JONATHAN SWIFT
• JOSEPH ADDISON
• ISAAC NEWTON
• SAMUEL PEPYS
• LADY MONTAGUE

7. # HE WROTE 250 LITERARY WORKS DURING HIS
CAREER.
# IT IS SAID THAT HE HAD THE KEENEST SENSE OF WHAT
THE PUBLIC WANTED
# HE WAS ALSO POLITICALLY ACTIVE AND HE WORKED FOR,..
THE
TORIES

8. • DURING HIS LIFETIME HE GAINED FAME
AND NOTORIETY FOR HIS POEMS,
POLITICAL PAMPHLETS AND JOURNALISM.
• HE WAS THE AUTHOR OF THE TOW MOST
FAMOUS LITERARY WORKS

9. 1.
ROBINSON
CRUSOE
# DEFOE'S 5 MAJOR
WORKS
(1719)

10. 2. THE MEMOIRS
A CAVALIER
(1720)

11. 3.
CAPTAIN
SINGLETO
N
( 1720)

12. 4.MOLL
FLANDERS
(1722)

13. 5.
COLONEL
JACK
(JACQUE)
(1722)

14. # ROBINSON CRUSOE #
> FIRST PUBLISHED:- 1719 LONDON
> ALSO KNOW AS:- 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, Wherein All the Men Perished but
Himself.

15. #MAJOR
CHARACTERS:-
∆ ROBINSON
CRUSOE
∆ FRIDAY
∆ THE PORTUGUESE
CAPTAIN
∆ THE SPAINYARD
∆ XURY
∆ THE WIDOW

16. # THEMES #
π PROGRESS
π SELF RELIANCE
π
CIVILIZATION
π CHRISTIANITY ( Most
important)

17. THANK YOU