Throughout the
novel, Crusoe longs to fulfill his own individuality. From the very beginning of the novel,
Crusoe feels the need to emancipate himself from the authority of family tradition. Robinson
suffers for the constraints put upon him by his family milieu and his head began to be filled
very early with rambling thoughts. He is completely alienated from the mercantile class to which
his father and his family belong, although, in the course of the novel, he will come to embody
those very values of economic profitability (including the profitability of the slave trade)
that he had...
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