Topic Discussion: Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English.Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe was a great success partly because the protagonist was a real middle-class hero. Discuss Crusoe, the protagonist of the novel, as an embodiment of the rising middle-class virtues in the mid-eighteenth century England.
A. SOCIAL BACKGROUND: THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND WITNESSED THE GROWING IMPORTANCE OF THE BOURGEOIS OR MIDDLE CLASS. 1. THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 2. THE EXPANSION OF INTERNATIONAL MARKETS 3. VALUES/VIRTUES/MORAL STANDARDS/… DIFFERENT FROM THOSE OF THE FEUDAL ARISTOCRATIC CLASS—COURAGEOUS, FULL OF ENERGY, HARD WORKING, PRACTICAL, RESOURCEFUL, SELF-RELIANT, ETC. 4. LITERATURE SHOULD GIVE/PROVIDE A REALISTIC PRESENTATION OF THE LIFE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE; IT SHOULD MEET THE DEMAND/INTEREST OF THE MIDDLE CLASS PEOPLE.
B. ROBINSON CRUSOE EMBODIES THE VIRTUES OF THE MIDDLE CLASS PEOPLE. 1. CRUSOE AS AN ADVENTUROUS/COURAGEOUS MAN FULL OF ENERGY AND COURAGE (EXAMPLE FROM THE TEXT); 2. CRUSOE AS A PRACTICAL MAN (EXAMPLE FROM THE TEXT) 3. CRUSOE AS A RESOURCEFUL/SELF-RELIANT MAN(EXAMPLE FROM THE TEXT) 4. CRUSOE AS A PATIENT/PERSISTENT MAN 5. AND OTHERS. 
