Treasure Island is an adventure novel about a boy named Jim Hawkins who finds a treasure map and gets caught up in the search for Captain Flint's hidden fortune on a remote island. The novel follows Jim and other characters like Dr. Livesey and Long John Silver as they set sail on the Hispaniola and encounter conflicts between the ship's crew members who remain loyal versus those who mutiny led by Long John Silver in pursuit of the treasure. The story is a commentary on the ambiguity of morality within human nature and the conflicts that can arise from virtues like loyalty versus vices like drunkenness and lack of discipline.
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ADvENTURE NOvEL
AcTION, AND ALSO A wRy cOmmENTARy ON THE
AmBIgUITy Of mORALITy
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SHOULDERS.
4. Main characters
Jim Hawkins: the boy who finds the treasure
map
Billy Bones: ex-mate of Captain Flint's ship
and possessor of the map of Treasure Island.
Squire John Trelawney: a skilled marksman,
he is naïve and hires the crew almost entirely
on Long John Silver's advice.
5. Main characters
Dr. Livesey: a doctor, magistrate, former
soldier
Captain Alexander Smollett: the stubborn, but
loyal, captain of the Hispaniola.
Long John Silver: formerly Flint's
quartermaster, later leader of the Hispaniola's
mutineers.
6. Plot suMMary
the narrator, JiM hawkins
the novel oPens in a seaside village in
south-west england in the Mid-17th
century
7. CONFLICTS
between middle class virtues versus proletarian
indiscipline
virtues such as loyalty, truthfulness, thrift,
discipline, religious faith, and temperance
(especially with alcohol)
The pirates suffer from drunkenness, impiety,
and mutual betrayal, and tend to seize
immediate gratification on the premise that life is
short and uncertain.