Further Reflections of Robinson Crusoe

“I saw the world busy around me: one part laboring for bread, another part squandering in vile excess or empty pleasures, but equally miserable because the end they proposed still fled from them; for the men of pleasure every day surfeited of their vice, and heaped up work for sorrow and repentance; and men of labor spent their strength in daily struggling for bread to maintain the vital strength they labored with: so living in a daily circulation of sorrow, living but to work, and working but to live, as if daily bread were the only end of wearisome life, and a wearisome life the only occasion of daily bread.”

An English Proverb

“In trouble to be troubled, is to have your trouble doubled.”

 The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

The Reflections of Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe’s first dwelling place was not fit for his settlement and he contrived to find a more suitable place for his abode. Crusoe considered the following when searching for a proper dwelling place: 

1. Health and freshwater
2. Shelter from heat and sun
3. Security from ravenous creatures whether they be man or beast
4. A view to the sea, so that he might observe any passing ships

A Comparison of “Goods and Evils” by Robinson Crusoe

After his being ship wrecked on a deserted island Robinson Crusoe took stock of the Goods and Evils of his circumstances.

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Crusoe the Complete Series

Crusoe was a series that ran for 13 episodes during the 2008-09 TV season. Crusoe is loosely derived from the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. Crusoe like MacGyver has come up with many ingenious inventions to make is life a bit more convenient and to keep the bad guys away from the tree house that he has built way into the jungle. He lives there with his companion Friday and dog. The series is actually a story within a story whereas both Crusoe and Friday have frequent flash backs to their past that often intersect the present.

The 13 episodes include many adventures and a few romances:

Disk One

Rum and Gunpowder (2 parts)

Sacrifice

The Mutineers

Disk Two

High Water

Long Pig

Bad Blood

Heroes and Villains

The Name of the Game

Disk Three

Smoke and Mirrors

The Hunting Party

The Traveler
The Return