Premium Content God Would Not Bless Me: Fatalism and the Father in Robinson Crusoe
By Rebecca Givens - March 01, 2003
Though Robinson Crusoe may be popularly envisioned as a harrowing "adventure tale" of shipwreck and survival, the "adventures" of emotional and spiritual discourse act perhaps equally strongly to frame and direct the text. Crusoe's early travels, in which he says he "I never once had the Word Thank God, so much as on my Mind, or in my mouth" (131…
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