These fonts are all very similar in appearance... its kind of frustrating.
My thesis sentence:
Although Robinson Crusoe becomes (on the Island) a believer in the God as presented in the Holy Bible, he does not ever truly embrace His principals and live a Christian life.
(i will return to finish this post later)
Sunday, March 23, 2008
So, I have gotten a little behind lately on the blog. Spring Break was a big throw off for me but now I'm back on the band wagon and getting things done a little more timely. I'll start with the one due the week that SB began.
I wanted to look into Daniel Defoe's life a little bit more and his person beliefs were intriguing to me also. Apparently he was the first author of the typical "novel" style book. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/defoe.htm states that he was the first to have published anything longer than a poem or dialog. I didn't really find that link to be very trustworthy or informative so I quickly moved on. This one http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/novel_18c/defoe/ caught my eye as being much more above board and educational. It says that he was one of the first journalists to exist and perhaps even should be hailed as the "father of Journalism". He wasn't very well respected by his contemporaries and I found what this site quoted Sir Walter Scott as having said concerning him was very interesting and I agree wholeheartedly with. He said something to the effect that -Defoe wasn't really concerned with composing a cohesive piece of work and seemed to hop from topic to topic in a very unconvincing way. Or something like that... It made Robinson Crusoe seem like some weird journal that didn't really need to be read and didn't really have a reason to be written, when I think a book like that could have been so much more meaningful, inspiring, and convincing. I think the way he wrote it was a big waste of time.
http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/defoe.htm He was a devout puritan and famous for a lot more than just Robinson Crusoe. He wrote many other political rantings during his time and many people thought he sold himself out for politics. Overall he seems like a controversial author and one that still is questionable in both is reputation and his writing ability.
I wanted to look into Daniel Defoe's life a little bit more and his person beliefs were intriguing to me also. Apparently he was the first author of the typical "novel" style book. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/defoe.htm states that he was the first to have published anything longer than a poem or dialog. I didn't really find that link to be very trustworthy or informative so I quickly moved on. This one http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/novel_18c/defoe/ caught my eye as being much more above board and educational. It says that he was one of the first journalists to exist and perhaps even should be hailed as the "father of Journalism". He wasn't very well respected by his contemporaries and I found what this site quoted Sir Walter Scott as having said concerning him was very interesting and I agree wholeheartedly with. He said something to the effect that -Defoe wasn't really concerned with composing a cohesive piece of work and seemed to hop from topic to topic in a very unconvincing way. Or something like that... It made Robinson Crusoe seem like some weird journal that didn't really need to be read and didn't really have a reason to be written, when I think a book like that could have been so much more meaningful, inspiring, and convincing. I think the way he wrote it was a big waste of time.
http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/defoe.htm He was a devout puritan and famous for a lot more than just Robinson Crusoe. He wrote many other political rantings during his time and many people thought he sold himself out for politics. Overall he seems like a controversial author and one that still is questionable in both is reputation and his writing ability.
Monday, March 3, 2008
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an interesting man. I thought it was cool how he and another guy ( a friend from college, Robert Southey* wanted to start up a Utopian society in the US. Utopian! They were going to call it "pantisocracy" and it was going to be on a River in Pennsylvania. It didn't work out in the end but not until after Southey convinced Coleridge to marry his wife's sister. I wasn't really able to find out why he didn't want to and why he allowed himself to be convinced to, but I thought it interesting that he was utopian in beliefs and he married for a reason other than love. I wonder if they did the naked standing in front of each other thing? From his portraits, that would not have made her very excited about the prospect of marriage either...
He was very good friends with Wordsworth but they had a falling out eventually. Before that though they wrote a collection of poetry called Lyrical Ballads. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was the opening poem. It was a big hit and because they both used current english and modern emotions, they were very popular as well as revolutionary. He is sometimes called the father of romanticism. Again, interesting because he is Utopian... i don't think of Utopians as romantic, although Moore was definetely revolutionary.
He was very good friends with Wordsworth but they had a falling out eventually. Before that though they wrote a collection of poetry called Lyrical Ballads. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was the opening poem. It was a big hit and because they both used current english and modern emotions, they were very popular as well as revolutionary. He is sometimes called the father of romanticism. Again, interesting because he is Utopian... i don't think of Utopians as romantic, although Moore was definetely revolutionary.
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