I now reading Robinson Crusoe and its fairly interesting to see how he try to combine some sort of moral outset along with historical deception on the events
you can see it when he reach the point of stabilized life on the island the author push forward some moral outset which seems to be linked to the place of god in relation to Robinson s well as his relation to earth in form of historical description of chain of events followed after the moral compression in form of a journal which almost read as chronic.
a way of Robinson to locate his place in life after its seems the materialistic cause almost consumed him.
btw im a girl :)
>>7633141
The materialism is a product of Defoe wanting to be really specific and meticulous with what Crusoe had. He's not so consumed by it, it's just Defoe wanting to provide the reader with a really in depth composition (even though he does fuck it up and the pacing gets fucked - remember the lighter). I guess you could argue he is consumed by it, in terms of him being so reliant on it, but all those pages describing how he made pots seems more like the author trying to get across something than Crusoe trying to recount the particularities of some mundane activity.
>>7633594
I more talked about it in sense of relation to time its probably aimed to show how self evedint tools and tasks are not as such