摘　要

《鲁宾逊漂流记》是著名小说家迪福的代表作,主要讲述鲁滨逊.克鲁索在一次航海中不幸遇到风浪流落孤岛，二十八年后获救重回英国的故事.本文首先对此书的作者及内容做简单的介绍,然后重点分析鲁滨逊、星期五和葡萄牙船长三个重要人物的性格特点，接着对主人公鲁滨逊性格形成的原因做个研究，最后根据三个人不同的生活轨迹来说明性格对人幸运的重要性.

关键词：鲁宾逊漂流记；命运；性格；

Abstract

Robinson Crusoe is the representative work of famous novelist Defoe, it mainly talked about Robinson Crusoe met terrible storms in voyage and was stranded on a desert island. With his amazing perseverance and courage, 28 years later, eventually he was rescued and returned in Britain. This article will introduce the author and the content firstly, and then focus on analyzing three important persons’ personalities: Robinson Crusoe, Friday and the Portuguese Captain; after that do a research about causes of Crusoe’s personality; at last according to three persons’ different path of life, stating the importance of personality to fate.

Key words: Robinson Crusoe; personality; fate

1 Introduction

Robinson Crusoe is one of the world’s most popular adventure novels written by famous British writer Daniel Defoe at his age of 59. It was based on a true story. The real Robinson Crusoe was a Scotsman named Alexander Selkirk born in 1676. By 1703 he was the sailing master of a gallery. The following year he joined a private expedition to the Pacific Ocean that was led by Captain William Dampier. After spending some time in the Pacific, their ship had suffered considerable damage in battle and Selkirk felt they needed to repair before setting off around the Horn. The Captain disagreed. After an argument Selkirk refused to go any farther and demanded he be set ashore on the Island of Juan Fernandez. After about two years on the island he finally saw a ship and ran down to the shore to look it. He realized almost too late that it was a Spanish ship and the Spaniards opened fire on him. They were unable to find him and eventually left. He was much more cautious after that. Selkirk was able to feed some goats and cats he found on the island and these were his only companions through out his stay of almost four and a half years.
He was finally found in February 1709 by William Dampier, who was then pilot on a private expedition headed by Captain Woods Rogers. Rogers appointed Selkirk as ship’s mate and later gave him command of captured ship. For the next two years they conducted raids on the coast of Peru and Chile. Selkirk was very well-off when they returned to London in 1711, eventually he returned to sea and he died of fever off the coast of Africa in 1721 at the age of 45.