EXPLORING ADVENTURE AS A DEFINITON OF LIFE IN DANIEL DEFOE’S ROBINSON CRUSOE

Abstract

Adventure fiction is a genre of literature that contains stories of adventure, such as world travel, adventure quests, adventures of discovery, and other adventures involving pirates and buried treasure, searching for buried places or objects, or journeys whose success is important for personal and social meanings. Adventure stories have been popular since the earliest days of literary fiction. Adventures are significant because they are a part of the hero’s journey. Which is probably why travel is often a matter of self-discovery for the hero. They are a form of escape literature that allows the reader to escape everyday life to save distant lands as it is the story of wonderful discovery and mystery. Such is Robinson Crusoe a thriller about a lonely man struggling to survive on a seemingly deserted South American island. Robinson Crusoe is the story of one man’s survival in wilderness it also includes pirates, shipwrecks, cannibalism, mutiny, and more. It is a very adventurous story that explores solitude, discovery and the will to survive.