3. What is the benefit of reading Robinson Crusoe?

This question calls for your opinion. There is no right or wrong answer. Robinson Crusoe is a fictionalized version of an actual historic event. In reading this book, we can acquaint ourselves with certain aspects of history and utilize Defoe's illustration of this history to discern specific ideologies. The novel provides us with Defoe's perspective, another author's writings would likely provide us with another.